For the purpose of this ordinance, certain terms and words are hereby defined. Words used in the present tense shall include the future; the singular number shall include the plural and the plural the singular; the word "building" shall include the word "structure"; the word "shall" is mandatory and not directory, and words and terms not defined herein shall be interpreted in accord with their normal dictionary meaning and customary usage.

Accessory building. A subordinate building attached to or detached from the main building, the use of which is incidental to that of the main building and shall not be used as a place of habitation.

Accessory use. A subordinate use which is considered incidental to and customary or necessary in connection with the main building or use and which is located on the same lot with such main building or use.

Adult day care center. A place operated by a person, society agency, corporation, institution, or other group to provide daytime care and activities to five or more persons, at least 17 years of age, who are not within the immediate family of the caregiver. Persons receiving care at an adult day care center shall not include alcohol and drug abuse clientele, former inmates of prisons or correctional institutions, or former patients of mental institutions who have been found not guilty by reason of insanity. No overnight stays are permitted.

Adult establishment. An adult bookstore, adult motion picture theater or adult cabaret. Adult establishment also means any premises that sells or disseminates "explicit sexual material."

Aggregate area or width. The sum of two or more designated areas or widths to be measured, limited, or determined under these regulations.

Alley. A way that affords only a secondary means of access to property abutting thereon.

Apartment. A dwelling unit with or without culinary facilities designed for or used as living quarters by one or more persons.

Apartment house. Same as dwelling, multiple.

Automobile service center. An establishment which provides general maintenance service for automobiles such as engine tune-ups, oil change, lubrication, front end alignment, brake service, and similar maintenance services, or offers retail sales and installation of lubricants, tires, batteries and similar accessories in a completely enclosed building. An automobile service center does not include activities such as body and fender repairs and major mechanical repairs.

Automobile/vehicular parts sales. A retail use where the sale of parts for automobiles, motor vehicles, or other vehicles constitutes more than 50 percent of the total sales for the establishment. No service, such as installation of parts and/or repairs, is permitted on the site.

Balcony. A railing-enclosed platform projecting from and supported by an outer wall of a building or supported directly from the ground.

Bank. A business establishment in which money is kept for saving or commercial purposes. This definition includes loan companies or other financial institutions. They may or may not have drive-through walk-up facilities.

Bar. See cocktail lounge.

Barn roof. A roof that forms an arc or semi-circle or has as a portion of the roof a round arch spanning an open area between walls.

Basement. That portion of a building below the first story and having more than one-half its height below grade.

Billboard. General advertising sign with a maximum sign area of 750 square feet with a maximum length of the sign face of 48 feet and a maximum height of the sign face of 14 feet. The maximum total structure height of billboards in the permitted district shall be 65 feet. No building or structure, other than billboards, shall exceed 45 feet in height.

Boardinghouse. Same as roominghouse.

Brew pub. An establishment which contains a local brewery as well as a full service standard restaurant.

Buildable area. The area of a lot not included within the yards or open spaces herein required.

Building. Any structure designed or built or used for the support, enclosure, shelter or protection of persons, animals, chattels, or property of any kind.

Building, height of. The vertical distance from the grade to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof, or to the deck line or highest point of coping or parapet of a mansard roof, or to the mean height level between the top of the wall plate and the top of the ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs (See diagrams provided in Appendix 1).

Building, two story. A building with two stories at the building line. For purposes of determining a side yard width, a two-story building which becomes one story at the building line shall meet the definition of a one story building for that side yard width.

Cable casting studio and distribution or switching center. A facility for creating programs to be telecast by cable television and for switching programs from one station to another.

Cable communications system. A system of antennas, cables, amplifiers, towers, microwave links, and other conductors, converters, equipment or facilities, designed and constructed for the primary purpose of distributing video programming to home subscribers, and the secondary purpose of producing, receiving, amplifying, storing, processing, or distributing audio, video, digital, or other forms of electronic or electrical signals.

Cafe. An establishment principally offering food from a fully diversified menu; but with no holding bar.

Canopy. A detachable rooflike cover, either temporary or permanent, supported from the ground, deck, floor or walls of a building for protection from sun or weather.

Carport. A permanent structure, open on at least two sides, for the purpose of providing shelter for one or more vehicles.

Carwash. A building or structure erected for the primary purpose of washing automobiles and noncommercial trucks such as pickups, vans, and other small private vehicles.

Child care center. Any establishment which provides shelter, care, activity and supervision (with or without academic instruction) for five to ten children (between birth and six years of age), provided that children, except those within the immediate family of the caregiver, shall not stay in the facility longer than 24 hours.

Churches, rectories, parish homes, temples or synagogues. Any building or dwelling used for worship by organized religious sects, as defined by the department of internal revenue, when such building or dwelling is located on a site containing a minimum lot area of 20,000 square feet.

City owned property. Any property owned by the city, either vacant or occupied.

City planner. A person, appointed by the mayor and council, who is responsible for reviewing and providing recommendations on all zoning, rezoning, subdivision, resubdivision, variance, and appeals requests to the planning and zoning commission and the board of zoning adjustments. Until such time when a city planner is appointed, the city regulatory director shall be responsible for those duties.

City regulatory director. The city regulatory director, or a designee designated by the mayor, shall issue all building permits, violations and citations and provide for all necessary inspections of said construction.

Clinic. A building, or portion thereof, designed for, constructed or under construction or alteration for, or used by two or more licensed physicians, surgeons, dentists, psychiatrists, physiotherapists or licensed practitioners in related specialties or a combination of persons in those professions, but not including lodging of patients overnight.

Club, private. Buildings and facilities or premises used or operated by an organization or association for some common purpose, such as, but not limited to, a fraternal, social, educational or recreational purpose. Such organizations and associations shall be incorporated under the laws of Louisiana as a nonprofit corporation or registered with the Secretary of [the] State of Louisiana. This definition does not include clubs organized primarily for profit or to render a service which is customarily carried on as a business.

Cocktail lounge, daiquiri shop or bar. A place for service or consumption of alcoholic beverages, but not including live entertainment.

College or university. An institution of higher learning providing facilities for teaching and research, and authorized to grant a variety of academic degrees; usually made up of an undergraduate division which conveys bachelor's degrees, and a graduate division which comprises a graduate school and professional school, each of which may confer master's degrees and doctorates.

Community home. A facility certified, licensed or monitored by the department of health and human resources to provide resident services and supervision to six or fewer individuals. This definition does not include facilities which provide services for alcohol and drug abuse clientele, former inmates of prisons or correctional institutions, or former patients of mental illness institutions who have been found guilty of a criminal charge by reason of insanity.

Composting facility. A facility where nonhazardous organic matter is processed by natural or mechanical means to aid the microbial decomposition of organic matter.

Contractor's shop. A building or office for entities that perform services for construction work. This definition includes electrical, glazing, heating, painting, paper hanging, plumbing, roofing or ventilation contractors.

Convalescent home. Same as nursing home.

Convenience use. Commercial activities, which have relatively high traffic generation compared to other commercial uses. A use is designated as a "convenience use" if the method of operation includes one or more of the following characteristics:

A.

Retail gasoline or fuel is sold.

B.

The primary business is the sale of food or drink over a counter or from an outdoor service window with at least 20 percent in disposable, carry out or edible containers.

C.

Stores with less than 7,500 square feet where food and drink is sold primarily for consumption off premises.

D.

Any commercial use with service designed to be accessed by occupants of a vehicle.

E.

Car washes (self-service and/or automated).

Convent. An area containing one or more buildings accommodating persons, usually nuns, devoting their activities to a religious life.

Corrugated roof. A roof that is shaped into alternating semi-circular ridges and grooves.

Culinary facilities. A space in a dwelling arranged, intended, designed or used for the storage, preparation or consumption of food.

Daiquiri shop. See cocktail lounge.

Dance hall. Any public or semipublic place, room or building, where people come to dance and where nonalcoholic beverages may be offered when incidental to the operation of the dance hall.

Detached building. A building standing by itself; separate; not sharing any wall with another building.

District. Any section of the city in which zoning regulations are applied.

District, commercial. Any district designated in these regulations as a business or commercial district.

District, mixed use. A district in which structures can be used for a combination of residential and/or commercial uses.

District, residential. Any district designated in this ordinance as being used for residential purposes.

Dormitory. A building intended or used principally for sleeping accommodations where such building is related to an educational or public institution, including religious institutions.

Drive-in. A term used to describe an establishment designed or operated to serve a patron while seated in an automobile parked in an off-street parking space.

Driveway. The hard-surfaced area leading to the required parking area on any lot.

Dwelling. A building or portion thereof, designed or used exclusively for residential occupancy, but not including trailers, mobile homes, hotels, motels, motor lodges, boarding and lodging homes, tourist courts or tourist homes.

Dwelling, multiple-family. A multiple-family dwelling is a building that contains three or more living units.

Dwelling, single-family. A dwelling designed for, constructed or under construction or alteration for, or occupied exclusively by not more than one family.

Dwelling, townhouse. A dwelling designed or used exclusively for single-family occupancy that has a common wall with another dwelling designed or used exclusively for single-family occupancy.

Dwelling, two-family. A dwelling that contains not more than two units occupied exclusively by not more than two families (one per unit).

Eave. That portion of the roof which projects past the plane of the exterior wall.

Family. An individual or two or more persons who are related by blood or marriage, living together and occupying a single housekeeping unit with single culinary facilities, or not more than four unrelated persons living together by joint agreement and occupying a single housekeeping unit with single culinary facilities on a nonprofit, cost-sharing basis. Domestic servants, employed and residing on the premises shall be considered as part of the family.

Filling station. Any building or land providing service, self-service or both for the dispensing and sale of gasoline, oil or diesel fuel for motor vehicles.

Flat roof. A roof that has no pitch.

Floor area. The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a building or portions of buildings.

Floor area ratio. The floor area of a building or buildings on any lot divided by the area of the lot.

Frontage, lot. The distance for which the front lot line and the street line are coincident. The smallest dimension of this lot perimeter shall be considered the front of the lot.

Frontage, street. The distance along a street from one intersecting street to another, or from one intersecting street to the end of a dead-end street.

Gable roof. A roof which slopes from both sides of the top or ridge to form a gable at each end.

Gambrel roof. A gable roof with two slopes on each of two sides, the lower slope steeper than the upper slope and the upper slope having a pitch greater than three inches per foot.

Garage, private. An accessory building designed for storage of vehicles and not used for living or sleeping purposes.

Garage, repair. A building, land or portion thereof designed or used for storage of motor-driven vehicles pursuant to previous arrangement and not to transients, and at which automobile fuels and oils are sold, and motor-driven vehicles are equipped, repaired, hired or sold. All work shall be conducted totally enclosed within the building. Any vehicle left overnight in storage shall be parked within a totally enclosed area.

Gasoline service station. Any building, structure or land used for the dispensing, sale or offering for sale at retail of any automobile fuels, lubricants, tires or accessories, except that car washing, minor motor adjustment and flat tire repair may be performed when incidental to the conduct of a gasoline service station.

Grade. The elevation of the ground at a building or building site.

Grocery store. A retail facility that sells an assortment of fresh, packaged, canned and frozen food items, household and miscellaneous items. A grocery store may contain a delicatessen section with or without seating area for on-premise[s] consumption.

Group home. See community home.

Health club. An establishment which provides a service to the public involving an exercise program, aerobics, martial arts, spas or hot tubs, pools [or] gymnastics.

Hip roof. A roof with slope on all sides.

Holding bar. An area of a restaurant designed for the display, sale and consumption of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, that is open to the public only while food is being served in the restaurant's dining room. The holding bar shall not exceed 25 percent of the square footage of the seating area of the restaurant and shall not exceed 400 square feet.

Home for the aged. Facilities providing domiciliary care for the aged, including the service of meals and the provision of incidental nursing as required from time to time, provided that the above use shall not include any inmate of any prison or other correctional institution.

Home occupation. Any occupation within a dwelling and clearly incidental thereto, carried on by a member of the family on the premises, provided that no person not a resident of the premises is employed; that no more than 15 percent of the floor area of the dwelling is used for the home occupation; no stock in trade is kept or sold; no mechanical equipment is used except such that is normally used for family, domestic or household purposes, and that there is no exterior indication that the building is being used for any purpose other than a dwelling. No sign is to be displayed. When within the above requirements, a home occupation includes, but is not limited to, the following: professional office of a lawyer, engineer, architect, accountant, salesman, real estate agent, insurance agent, psychic reader, or other similar occupations; mail-order service (provided that no stock or commodities connected with the service are stored on and/or delivered to or from the premises). Other similar occupations including musical instruction limited to not more than one pupil at a time; artists, photographers, draftsmen, tailors, milliners or seamstresses shall also be deemed as home occupations. The following shall not be interpreted to be home occupations: barbershops, beauty parlors, nail salons, restaurants, dancing instructions, band instrument instruction groups, tearooms, tourist homes, convalescent homes, mortuary establishments, stores, trades, offices of physician or dentist or business of any kind not herein excepted. No more than one home occupation shall be permitted within any single-dwelling unit.

Hospital. A building or group of buildings, used for providing services for the medical or surgical care of sick or injured persons, primarily in-patients and which may include related facilities such as laboratories, outpatient services, central service facilities and staff facilities, provided that such related facilities shall be incidental and subordinate to the primary hospital use and must be an integral part of the hospital operations.

Hotel. A building containing 20 or more individual sleeping rooms or suites, having each a private bathroom attached thereto, for the purpose of providing overnight lodging facilities to the general public for compensation with or without meals, excluding accommodations for employees, 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.

Junk. Abandoned or dilapidated automobiles, trucks, tractors, and other such vehicles and parts thereof, abandoned or dilapidated or without all necessary parts or not in running condition, or lacking required tags, license and state liability insurance, and other kinds of vehicles and parts thereof; scrap building material, scrap contractor's equipment, tanks, casks, cans, barrels, boxes, drums, piping, bottles, glass, old iron, machinery, rags, paper, excelsior, hair, mattresses, beds or bedding, furniture or any other kind of scrap or waste material which is stored, kept, handled or displayed. None of the material in the foregoing, or any other material labeled junk by any connotation, is permitted within any zoning district in the city.

Kennel, boarding. Any building, structure, or open space devoted in its entirety or in part to the boarding of animals for commercial purposes, or of four or more animals at least four months of age.

Landfill, construction/demolition. A facility for the disposal of nonhazardous material from a construction or demolition project. Operation of such landfills shall provide a watchman 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Laundromat. A business that provides washing, drying, and/or ironing machines or dry cleaning machines for hire to be used by customers on the premises.

Lean-to roof. A roof with a single slope.

Live entertainment. A scheduled or planned performance or presentation by performers, who may be amateurs, participants from the audience, patrons or guests. Live entertainment includes the following: theatrical productions, athletic contests, exhibitions, concerts, circuses, karaoke, bands, and other live musical performances, audience participation contests, floorshows, literature readings, dancing, fashion shows, comedy or magic acts, mime and the playing of recorded music by a disc jockey. Live entertainment does not include: periodic entertainment by schools, churches, and nonprofit organizations; live entertainment at weddings, and similar religious events.

Living or habitable area. That portion of the dwelling unit to be used solely for human habitation, exclusive of the accessory building, carport or garage, but including game rooms, play rooms or music rooms.

Loading space. A space within a main building, or on the same lot as a main building, providing for the standing, loading or unloading of trucks. Such space shall be separate from and not be considered as part of the required off-street parking area.

Lodginghouse. A building other than a hotel, where lodging for three, but not more than 20, persons is provided for definite periods for compensation pursuant to previous arrangement.

Lot. A parcel of land having specific boundaries and having its principal frontage upon an officially approved street.

Lot area. The total horizontal area within the lot lines of the lot.

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

Lot coverage. The area of the lot covered by a structure exclusive of permitted overhangs.

Lot, depth of. The average distance between the front and rear lot lines.

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

Lot, irregular shaped. A lot having more than four angles, or a lot that has angles that are greater or less than 90 degrees.

Lot, key. Any lot that has a rear yard abutting the side and front yard of any other lot or vice versa.

Lot lines. The lines bounding a lot.

Lot of record. A lot which is part of a subdivision, the map of which has been recorded in the office of the clerk of court and recorder of Jefferson Parish, or a lot described by metes and bounds, the description of which has been recorded in the office of the clerk of court and records of Jefferson Parish prior to the adoption of this ordinance.

Lot of record, contiguous, substandard. Any group of contiguous substandard lots at the time of passage of this ordinance.

Lot of record, single, substandard. Any lot, which does not meet the area or frontage requirements of the district in which it is located.

Lot, through. A lot having a frontage upon two approximately parallel streets or places. Any lot fronting on two streets shall be considered as having two front yards as defined herein.

Lot width. The average horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured parallel to the front street line.

Main building. A building which houses the predominant land use on a lot.

Main use. The principal activity conducted on a lot.

Mansard roof. A roof with two slopes on each of the four sides, the lower slope steeper than the upper slope and the upper slope having a pitch less than three inches per foot.

Massage parlor. An establishment which provides massage as a major use.

Master plan. The officially adopted master plan of the city or any part thereof.

Mini-warehouse. A structure which is used for the purpose of storing personal effects such as household goods and clothing, or small office or retail items. Individual compartments shall not exceed 1,000 square feet.

Mobile home/trailer. A factory assembled unit, transportable in one or more sections and ready for occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembling operations, all as more particularly defined and governed by R.S. 51:911.21 et seq., "Uniform Standards Code for Mobile Homes and Manufactured Housing."

Motel, motor court, tourist court or motor lodge. A building in which lodging, or boarding and lodging are provided and offered to the public for compensation. As such, it is open to the public in contradiction to a boardinghouse or lodginghouse, or multiple-dwelling, same as a hotel, except that the buildings are usually designed to serve tourists traveling by automobile. Ingress and egress to rooms need not be through a lobby or office, and parking usually is adjacent to the dwelling unit.

Nightclub. An establishment which provides live entertainment or a permanent area for dancing. A nightclub shall have a minimum entertainment floor area of 1,000 square feet, including discotheques, and may serve food and/or alcoholic beverages. The entertainment floor area shall be composed of the wet-bar, dance floor or live entertainment stage area, and table area.

Nonconforming use. A use of a building which does not conform with the height, area, or use regulations of the district in which it is located.

Nonhazardous waste. Wastes generally considered not water-soluble, and including metal, concrete, brick, asphalt, nonasbestos roofing materials and lumber. This definition does not include asbestos contaminated waste, white goods, furniture, trash or treated lumber. Further, this definition means waste not defined as hazardous in the Louisiana Hazardous Waste Regulations and Department of Environmental Quality guidelines.

Nonprofit organization. An organization designated as nonprofit by the Internal Revenue Service.

Nursery or pre-school. A pre-kindergarten school for young children between the ages of three and five, offering rudimentary academic instruction and approved and licensed by all applicable local and state agencies.

Nursing or convalescent home. A residential facility designed and intended to provide nursing service on a continuing basis to persons requiring such service under trained professional nurses and/or physicians, and for whom medical records are maintained. This definition includes uses known as convalescent homes, homes for the aged, and post-operative centers. This definition shall not include any facility used for providing service to any inmate of any prison or other correctional institution.

Open space. That part of a lot, including all yards, which is open and unobstructed from grade level upward and is not occupied by off-street parking, streets, drives, or other surfaces for vehicles.

Overlay zone. A set of zoning requirements that is described in the ordinance text, is mapped and is imposed in addition to those of the underlying zoning district. Developments within the overlay zone shall conform to the requirements of both the district and overlay zone, or the more restrictive of the two.

Package liquor store. A retail store devoted to the sale of liquor.

Parking lot. An open, hard-surfaced area which is used for the intermittent parking of automobiles, but is not a required off-street parking facility.

Parking space, off-street. A paved area not located on a public street, alley, or required front yard and having an area of not less than 171 square feet, a depth of not less than 18 feet and a width of not less than nine feet, six inches exclusive of driveways, permanently reserved for the temporary storage of one vehicle and connected with a street or alley by a paved driveway which affords ingress and egress for a motor vehicle without requiring another motor vehicle to be moved (See Appendices 2—5 showing space requirements for self-parking and details for connecting driveways to existing roadways).

Permitted structure. A structure meeting all the requirements established by this ordinance for the district in which the structure is located.

Place. An open, unoccupied space, other than a street or alley, permanently reserved as the principal means of access to the abutting property.

Public utility. Any public or privately owned utility, such as, but not limited to: electric poles or substations, telephone poles and lines, cable TV lines, gas lines, water and sewerage.

Quonset building. A structure built with a semi-circular arched roof of corrugated metal.

Reception hall. A public, semipublic, or private room, building or auditorium let to the public for social functions where guests are received and food and beverages are offered.

Recreational center. A public or private facility which offers recreational activities. Such facilities may include tennis courts, swimming pools, and other similar activities.

Residential development or use. Buildings, structures and uses which are permitted in a residential district, including dwellings, permitted residentially related public and semipublic facilities and permitted accessory uses.

Restaurant. An establishment where prepared foods and beverages are offered for sale or consumption on or off the premises and where the sales of such foods, desserts and beverages, exclusive of alcoholic beverages, constitute 50 percent or more of the revenue for said establishment. This definition does not include snowball stands. For purposes of the comprehensive zoning ordinance, restaurants shall be of the following types:

A.

Standard restaurant. A restaurant whose principal business is the sale of foods and beverages to the customer in a ready-to-consume state to be eaten on premises. It may or may not contain a holding bar with sale of alcoholic beverages concurrent with the sale of food items, provided the holding bar shall not exceed ten percent, not to exceed 400 square feet of the seating area of the restaurant.

B.

Fast-food restaurant. A restaurant whose principal business is the sale of foods and beverages in a ready-to-consume state. Food items are served primarily in paper, plastic or other disposable containers. It shall not contain a holding bar.

C.

Chain fast-food restaurant. A fast-food restaurant which is part of a chain of outlets, which serve food items for consumption either within the restaurant building or for carry-out. It shall not contain a holding bar. It shall demonstrate all of the following characteristics:

[1.]

Substantially similar food items are available at the majority of the outlets within the chain.

[2.]

A majority of the outlets within the chain share substantially similar architecture, interior design or signage.

D.

Specialty fast-food restaurant. A fast-food restaurant which is not part of a chain of outlets, but whose principal business is the sale of foods and beverages to the customer in a ready-to-consume state, either within the restaurant building or for carry-out. This definition includes delicatessen. It shall not contain a holding bar.

E.

Drive-through fast-food restaurant. A fast-food restaurant which includes service of foods and beverages but not alcoholic beverages directly to a customer in a motor vehicle.

Retail establishment, general. A shop where goods or commodities in small quantities are sold directly to customers. This definition does not include pawnshops, automobile/vehicle parts retail stores, or roadside stands.

Roadside stand. An open-air structure without floors, sanitary facilities or utility service, used primarily for a retail business, including but not limited to, the sale of fruits, vegetables and flowers.

Roominghouse. A building, other than a hotel, where for compensation and by prearrangement, five or more persons other than occasional or transient customers are provided with lodging. See boardinghouse.

School. A place or institution, public or private, for teaching or learning an academic curriculum approved by the Louisiana State Department of Education.

School, business. An establishment which provides training in skills required for the operation of a business.

School, trade or industrial. An establishment, public or private, for the purpose of training students in skills required for the practice of trades or industries. Such skills include plumbing, electrical, welding, bricklaying, air conditioning and heating, and mechanical.

Separation/recovery facility (recycling). A facility at which matter that still has useful physical or chemical properties is separated from the solid wastestream for future use.

Shed roof. A roof with a single slope.

Shopping center. A group of retail stores, planned and designed for the site upon which they are built.

Sidewalk cafe. An easily removable extension of an established restaurant consisting of movable tables and chairs, arranged on the sidewalk adjacent to the restaurant.

Sign. A structure or display arranged, designed or used to pertain only to the permitted use of the premises on which it is located. Signs include bulletin boards, display signs, screen paintings, sky or roof sign, and advertising devices and/or displays of every kind other than signs erected by a government agency in furtherance of the public safety.

Similar uses. For purposes of this ordinance, similar uses are uses that are physically similar, designed for similar purposes, permitted in the same zoning district and not in conflict with the purpose and intent of the zoning description.

Site plan (Also called a development plan). An accurate, scaled drawing showing the location of buildings, the landscaping, parking, circulation and such other features as floor plans and elevations to help describe the existing and proposed development of a specified area.

Small animal hospital/veterinary clinic. Facility for the diagnosis of disease, treatment, cure and prevention of disease in domestic animals, excluding livestock, livery and large wild animals, by a person authorized to practice animal medicine.

Snowball stand. A place where snowballs are made and sold.

Spa. A facility offering therapeutic baths.

Storage building. A subordinate building detached from the main building, the use of which is designed for general storage and shall not be used as a place of habitation.

Storage/warehouse area. A building or portion of a building used primarily for the storage of goods and/or materials, at least 60 percent of which is not generally accessible to the public. Said establishment or business may engage in the storage and/or sale of finished products; raw materials or partly finished goods; and/or single product categories, pending either onward transit or division into smaller batches and subsequent distribution.

Street. A public right-of-way or private thoroughfare which provides vehicular and pedestrian access to adjacent properties.

Street line. The line or boundary separating the public right-of-way from the land or property adjoining.

Structural alteration. Any change in the supporting members of a building, such as footings, bearing walls or partitions, columns, beams, or girders or any substantial change in the roof or in the exterior walls.

Structure. Anything constructed or erected which requires location on the ground, or attached to something having a location on the ground; provided, however, that utility poles and fences shall not be considered to be structures.

Swimming pool. Any structure, portable or permanent, containing a body of water 18 inches or more in depth, intended for recreational purposes, including a wading pool. All swimming pools shall be properly fenced. This definition does not include an ornamental reflecting pool, fish pond, or similar type pool, located and designed so as not to create a hazard or to be used for swimming or wading.

Telecommunications tower. Specific definitions:

Accessory structure compound. A fenced, secured enclosure in which a wireless telecommunications facility and its equipment, buildings, access roads, parking area, and other accessory devices/auxiliary structures are located.

Accessory building. A building that contains necessary equipment, but does not have office space.

Alternative support structure. Any structure other than a wireless telecommunications tower, which may include, but is not limited to, buildings, light poles, power poles, telephone poles and other essential public utility structures.

Antenna. An electromagnetic device which conducts radio signals, through an attached cable or wave guide, to or from a radio transmitter or receiver.

Antenna support structure. Steel or concrete that is designed with no guyed wires. See monopoles.

Collocation. The placement of more than one wireless communications antenna by one or more telecommunications service providers on a single existing or new antenna support structure.

Concealment techniques. Design techniques used to blend a wireless telecommunications facility, including any antennas thereon, unobtrusively into the existing surroundings so as to not have the appearance of a wireless telecommunications facility. Such structures shall be considered wireless telecommunications facilities and not spires, belfries, cupolas or other appurtenances usually required to be placed above the roof level for purposes of applying height limitations. Due to their height, such structures must be designed with sensitivity to elements such as building bulk, massing and architectural treatment of both the wireless telecommunications facility and surrounding development. Concealed towers on developed property must be disguised to appear as either a part of the structure housing, a principal use, or an accessory structure that is normally associated with the principal use occupying the property.

FAA. Federal Aviation Administration.

FCC. Federal Communications Commission.

Height. When referring to a tower or other structure, the distance measured from the ground level at the base of the tower to the highest point on the tower or structure, including if said highest point is an antenna placed on a structure or tower, excluding any lightening suppression equipment and/or FAA required lighting, not to exceed a combined total of ten feet over and above the height of the tower.

Monopole. A structure that is designed to be a freestanding tower and constructed primarily for the purpose of supporting one or more antennas.

Tower. Any structure that is designed and constructed primarily for the purpose of supporting one or more antennas, including monopoles.

Townhouse. A single-family dwelling forming one of two attached single-family dwellings separated from one another by party walls without doors, windows or other provisions for human passage or visibility through such walls from basement to attic. Each shall be built on a separate lot contiguous to a common lot line but with separate utility systems. The roof may extend from one of the dwelling units to another.

Trailer. Any vehicle covered or uncovered, used for living, sleeping, business or storage purposes, having no foundation other than wheels, blocks, skids, jacks, horses or skirting, and which is, has been or reasonably may be, equipped with wheels or other devices for transporting the vehicle from place to place, whether by motor power or other means. The term "trailer" shall include camp car and house car.

Truck. As used in the comprehensive zoning ordinance, the term "truck" includes truck trailers and truck tractors. The term does not include any vehicle whose maximum gross weight is 2,000 pounds or less as rated by the Louisiana Department of Motor Vehicles.

Truck stop. A structure or land used primarily for the retail sale of fuel for trucks and incidental service or repair of trucks. The site may also include eating, sleeping or truck parking facilities.

Truck terminal. A structure or land used primarily to transfer goods from a truck to another vehicle or other mode of transportation (e.g., water, air [or] rail). The truck terminal may also include eating and sleeping facilities, as well as facilities for the repair or service of vehicles. This definition includes facilities for the storage of freight shipping containers, but does not include a warehouse, moving and storage establishment or truck stop.

Vehicles, commercial. Any vehicle used for revenue producing purposes over a one ton capacity.

Vehicles, recreational. Any motor home, travel trailer, camper, trailer, boat, four-wheeler, jet ski and any other vehicle used for recreational purposes.

Warehouse. A building used to receive and store goods and merchandise. Premises designed and built for the purpose of bulk storage of raw materials or finished or partly finished good, pending either onward transit or division into smaller batches and subsequent distribution. An establishment or place of business engaged in the operation of a warehouse and the selling of a single product category (examples of single product categories are meat products, institutional, professional business users, or to other wholesalers). Said use does not include wholesale membership club, retail sales (examples of retail uses not permitted are Sears, Old Navy, Target, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Sam's Wholesale Club).

Waste, commercial. Solid waste generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses and other nonmanufacturing activities, excluding residential and industrial solid wastes.

Waste, residential. Solid waste, such as garbage and trash derived from households (including single and multiple residences), picnic grounds and day-use recreation areas.

Welfare agency. An organization, public or private, offering professional social work services to individuals or groups.

Yard. An open space at grade between a building and the adjoining lot lines, unoccupied and unobstructed by any portion of structure upward except as otherwise provided herein. In measuring a yard to determine the width of a yard, the minimum horizontal distance between the lot line and the maximum permissible main building shall be the yard dimension.

Yard, front. A yard extending across the full width of a lot between the side lot lines and between the street lot line and the front line of the building projected to the side lines of the building site. The depth of the front yard shall be measured between the front line of the building and the street line. On corner lots, the front yard shall be considered as parallel to the street upon which the lot has its least dimension. This space is considered open space.

Yard, rear. A yard extending across the rear of the lot between the side lot lines and being the minimum horizontal distance between a rear lot line and the rear of the maximum main building. The rear yard shall be at the opposite end of the lot from the front yard. However, on through lots fronting on two streets, two front yards shall be provided.

Yard, side. A yard between the main building and the side lot line and extending from the front lot line to the rear lot line.

Zoning district. Any section of the city in which the zoning regulations are uniform.

Zoning district, commercial. Any zoning district designed as business or commercial in the comprehensive zoning ordinance.

Zoning district, mixed use. Any zoning district designated as mixed use in the comprehensive zoning ordinance.

Zoning district, residential. Any zoning district designated as residential in the comprehensive zoning ordinance.

(Ord. No. 1411, § 1, 9-18-2003; Ord. No. 1414, § 1, 10-16-2003; Ord. No. 1494, § 1, 4-21-2005; Ord. No. 1503, § 1, 7-21-2005; Ord. No. 1568, § 3, 1-18-2007; Ord. No. 1596, § 1, 10-18-2007; Ord. No. 1632, § 1, 10-16-2008; Ord. No. 1969, § 1, 6-14-2023)