A lot or parcel which shares a common border with the subject lot or parcel.

A subordinate structure or building attached to or detached from but located on the same lot as a principal building or use. Accessory structures and buildings include garages, sheds, gazebos, cabanas, decks, greenhouses, arbors and trellises, swimming pools, and playhouses.

A small, independent residential dwelling unit located on the same lot as a stand-alone principal dwelling unit. Accessory dwelling units may be located as a partitioned area within the principal dwelling, as a building attached to a principal dwelling unit, or as an accessory building detached from the principal building.

The use of a structure on the same lot or tract as the principal structure, used for the accessory retail sale of goods or items produced on the premises.

A use on the same lot with, and a nature customarily incidental and subordinate to, the principal use or structure.

A structure added to the existing structure after the completion of the existing structure which extends or increases the floor area, or height of a building or structure.

A lot or parcel which either abuts the subject property or is located directly across a public or private street right-of-way from the subject parcel.

An establishment used for the sale of books, magazines, posters, video cassettes, motion picture films, and other printed materials; or tapes or sex objects for other than contraceptive purposes; distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to "specified sexual activities," or "specified anatomical areas," as defined herein.

A private residence receiving fewer than six adults to be provided with care for periods of less than 24 hours a day.

Any use of land, whether vacant or combined with structures or vehicles thereon, by which said property is devoted to selling, displaying, providing services, or exhibiting material for entertainment, a significant portion of which include matter or actions depicting, describing or presenting "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas." For purposes of this definition, the term "significant" shall be defined as greater than 20% of the total material displayed or exhibited for sale for entertainment purposes, or comprising more than 20% of the revenue produced by the business. Adult establishments include, but are not limited to the following: adult motion-picture theater, adult mini-motion-picture theater, adult motion picture arcade, adult bookstore, adult cabaret, adult novelty store, adult motel, and adult massage parlor as defined in this Ordinance.

An adult foster care facility with the approved capacity to receive more than 20 adults to be provided with foster care.

A facility defined as an "adult foster care facility" by the Adult Foster Care Facility Licensing Act, Act No. 218 of the Public Acts of Michigan of 1979 (MCLA § 400.701 et seq.), as amended, having as its principal function the receiving of adults for foster care, and licensed by the state under the act. An adult foster care facility includes facilities and foster care family homes for adults who are aged, mentally ill, developmentally disabled, or physically handicapped who require supervision on an ongoing basis, but who do not require continuous nursing care.

A private residence with the approved capacity to receive six or fewer adults to be provided with foster care for five or more days a week and for two or more consecutive weeks. The adult foster care family home licensee shall be a member of the household, and an occupant of the residence.

An adult foster care facility with the approved capacity to receive at least 13 but not more than 20 adults to be provided with foster care.

An adult foster care facility with the approved capacity to receive at least three but not more than 12 adults to be provided with foster care.

An enclosed building for presenting live entertainment involving the use of strip dancers, naked individuals, individuals who wear see-through clothing which permits the view of specified anatomical areas, individuals who are partially clothed and partially unclothed so as to permit the view of specified anatomical areas, or individuals conducting specified sexual activities.

An enclosed building used for presenting motion picture films, video cassettes, cable television, or any other such visual media, distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas," as defined in this Ordinance, for observation by patrons therein.

Any dedicated public right-of-way affording a secondary means of access to abutting property, and not intended for general circulation.

Any modification, remodeling, change or rearrangement in the structural or supporting members such as bearing walls, columns, or girders, as well as any change in the doors or windows which affect the means of egress which is undertaken without adding to the floor area height or physical size of the building or structure.

Any structure, land, or combination thereof used, designed, or arranged for the boarding, breeding or care of animals.

Small-scale businesses that produce artisan goods or specialty foods, primarily for direct sales to consumers, such as artisan leather, glass, wood, paper, ceramic, textile and yarn products, specialty foods and baked goods. This land use includes the design, processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment and packaging of products; as well as the incidental storage, sales and distribution of such products.

The use of any building or portion thereof, or other premises or portion thereof, for the display, sale, rental, or lease of new or used recreational vehicles, automobiles, or watercraft as an ancillary use of a zoning lot, and any warranty repair work and other repair service conducted as an accessory use.

Engine rebuilding or major reconditioning of worn or damaged motor vehicles or trailers; collision service, including body frame or fender straightening or repair; and painting of vehicles.

Incidental repairs, replacement of parts, and motor service to automobiles but not including any operations specified under "automotive repair, major."

An establishment or part of an establishment open to the general public primarily devoted to the selling or serving of alcoholic beverages and in which the service of food is only incidental to the consumption of such beverages.

The highest elevation of a flood having a 1% chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.

That portion of a building which is partly below and partly above grade, and having at least 1/2 its height below grade.

A use within a detached single-family dwelling in which transient guests are provided a sleeping room, breakfast and access to bathing and lavatory facilities in return for payment.

The City of New Buffalo Zoning Board of Appeals governed by Act 110 of the Public Acts of 2006, as amended.

A state-licensed production-oriented establishment primarily engaged in brewing fermented malt beverages including beer, ale, malt liquors, and nonalcoholic beer (brewery), manufacturing and bottling wine on the premises (winery), or manufacturing, by distillation, intoxicating spirits on the premises (distillery) primarily for sale and not including the consumption on-premises.

A tasting room for a state-licensed brewery, microbrewery, winery or distillery in which customers may sample, purchase and consume wine, beer, wine, or spirits manufactured off-premises.

A state licensed restaurant-brewery meeting the definition of MCLA § 436.1105(15) as amended engaged in the brewing of fermented malt beverages including beer, ale, malt liquors, and nonalcoholic beer primarily for sale in the restaurant and/or bar and is dispensed directly from the brewery's storage tanks.

A combination of material, whether portable or fixed forming a structure having a roof supported by columns or by walls affording a facility or shelter for use or occupancy by person, animals, or property.

The Building Code enforced by the City.

The officer or other designated authority charged with the administration and enforcement of the applicable Building Code, or the duly authorized representative of the officer.

A building separated on all sides from the adjacent open space or from other buildings or other structures, by a permanent roof and behind exterior walls or party walls, pierced only by windows and normal entrance or exit doors.

An area rented to the public for transient occupancy or lodging a camping unit.

The use of a site for washing and cleaning of passenger vehicles, recreational vehicles, or other light duty equipment.

Land used for the burial of the dead, and dedicated for cemetery purposes, excluding columbariums, crematories, mausoleums, and mortuaries.

A written document received from the Building Inspector stating that the applicable Building Code, as amended, and this Ordinance have been complied with as they apply to the construction of a building or structure and the use of a lot and that the building may now be occupied for its previously declared purpose.

A use of a building, structure, or parcel of land, or portion thereof which is different from the previous use in the way it is classified in this Ordinance.

The City of New Buffalo, Michigan.

The legislative body of the City.

A facility where organic matter that is derived primarily from off-site is to be processed by composting and/or is processed for commercial purposes. Activities of a composting facility may include management, collection, transportation, staging, composting, curing, storage, marketing, or use of compost.

The erection, alteration, repair, renovation, demolition or removal of any building or structure; and the excavation, filling, and grading of a lot.

Contractors' office or trailer and equipment shed(s) when accessory to a construction project, provided that no such use will contain any sleeping or cooking accommodations and is strictly limited to a period not to exceed the duration of the active construction phase of the associated project.

A dead-end public or private street, generally short in distance, which terminates in a circular or semi-circular section of street allowing for vehicle turnaround.

The number of dwelling units per unit of lot area.

The construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration, relocation, or enlargement of any structure; and mining, excavation, landfilling or land disturbance, and any extension of an existing use of land.

A facility located within an enclosed building primarily oriented to the storage and shipping of packaged materials or goods for a single business or a single group of businesses.

An area of land for which there are uniform regulations governing the use of buildings and premises, density of development, yard requirements and height regulations, and other appropriate regulations as established in this Ordinance.

A mobile structure which is used to receive materials such as clothing and other household or office goods donated by the public.

Any place or business operated for the sale and purchase at retail of food and other goods, or the rendering of services for which the facility is designed and equipped so as to allow its patrons to be served or accommodated while remaining in their motor vehicle.

An improved public or private passageway providing vehicular ingress to, and vehicular egress from, a public or private road to or from a lot, parcel, or building on abutting grounds.

A building, or portion thereof, designed exclusively for human occupancy providing complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation. A dwelling unit may be used as a short-term rental unit when licensed pursuant to Chapter 11 of the City Code and when either: 1) short-term rentals are not prohibited in the zoning district where the property is located; or 2) the short-term rental unit is established as nonconforming and operating in compliance with the regulations in Section Z9-08.

One or more dwelling units located in an upper-story of a building above a ground floor that contains a retail use involving the sale of goods on-site. The use shall not include sites that include ground-floor service or other nonresidential uses only; a retail use on the ground floor shall be required.

A building containing two attached, single-family, dwellings joined to one another by a party wall or walls, and which may be stacked vertically or horizontally.

A single building containing more than two residential dwelling units that share a common party wall and/or floors or ceilings. The building has a common external entrance and units are accessed through internal entrances.

A detached building, designed for or occupied exclusively by one family.

A building having three or more dwelling units that are arranged side-by-side, joined to one another at one or more sides by a party wall and with each occupying an exclusive vertical space without another dwelling unit above or below. Each dwelling has a dedicated exterior entrance.

A public or private accredited kindergarten through 12th grade school, college, trade, or business school, nursery school, pre-school, or day-care center, with or without related administrative offices, excluding maintenance garage.

The equipment for charging electric-powered vehicles and the space on a site designated for its use.

An addition to the floor area of an existing building, an increase in the size of any other structure, or an increase in that portion of a tract of land occupied by an existing use.

Establishments primarily engaged in the sale or rental of tools, trucks, tractors, construction equipment, agricultural implements, similar industrial equipment, and mobile homes. Included in this use type is the incidental storage, maintenance, and servicing of related equipment.

Built, constructed, altered, reconstructed, moved upon, or any physical operation on the premises which are required for construction purposes. Excavation, fill, drainage and the like shall be considered a part of the erection process.

The use of a parcel of land or a structure at the time of the enactment of this Ordinance.

On-site extraction of surface or subsurface mineral products or natural resources. Typical uses are quarries, borrow pits, sand and gravel operation, mining, and soil mining. Specifically excluded from this use is grading and removal of dirt associated with an approved site plan or subdivision or excavations associated with, and for the improvement of, a bona fide agricultural use.

A state licensed facility in a dwelling unit in which one but less than seven minor children are received for care and supervision for periods of less than 24 hours a day, unattended by legal guardian, except children related to an adult member of the family by blood, marriage or adoption. Family child care home also includes a home that gives care to an unrelated child for more than four weeks during a calendar year.

The seasonal selling or offering for sale at retail of home-grown vegetables or produce, occurring in a pre-designated area, where the vendors are generally individuals who have raised the vegetables or produce or have taken the same on consignment for retail sale.

Any permanent partition, structure or gate erected as a dividing structure, barrier or enclosure, and not part of a structure requiring a building permit constructed to prevent uncontrolled access, for decorative purposes, or to screen from view from adjoining properties and streets the property or lot upon which the fence is erected.

An establishment whose principal use or purpose is the provision of financial services, including, but not limited to, bank facilities for tellers, automated teller machines, credit unions, savings and loan institutions, and currency exchange establishments. This use shall not include establishments whose primary purpose is to accept applications, originate, underwrite, process or service residential or commercial loans secured by mortgage on real property.

Land which on the basis of available floodplain information is subject to a 1% or greater chance of flooding in any given area.

An official map of a community, on which the Federal Emergency Management Agency has delineated both the areas of special hazards and the risk-premium zones applicable to the community.

A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from the overflow of waters; or the unusual and rapid accumulation of runoff of surface waters from any source.

The channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas designated in the Flood Insurance Study which must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood.

The sum of all horizontal areas of the several floors of a building or dwelling unit, measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls, or from the center line of walls separating dwelling units. Unenclosed porches, courtyards, patios and cellars shall not be considered as part of floor area, except when utilized for commercial or industrial purposes.

The area within the perimeter of the outside walls of the building under consideration, without deduction for hallways, basements, elevator shafts, equipment and utility rooms, restrooms, stairs, closets/storage rooms, thickness of walls, columns, or other features.

A motorized vehicle or trailer equipped to cook, prepare, and/or sell food.

A permanently established area designed to accommodate multiple food trucks and offering food and/or beverages for sale to the public as the main use of the property and functioning as a single business.

Any commercial activity relating to the growing and harvesting of forest tree species.

A private home in which more than four but fewer than seven minor children, who are not related to an adult member of the household by blood or marriage, or who are not placed in a household under the Michigan adoption code, chapter X, of the probate code of 1939 (1939 PA 288, MCLA § 710.21 to 710.70). The minor children are provided care for 24 hours a day, for four or more days a week, for two or more consecutive weeks, unattended by a parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian.

A private home in which one but not more than four minor children, who are not related to an adult member of the household by blood or marriage, or who are not placed in a household under the Michigan adoption code, chapter X, of the probate code of 1939 (1939 PA 288, MCLA § 710.21 to 710.70). The minor children are provided care for 24 hours a day, for four or more days a week, for two or more consecutive weeks, unattended by a parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian.

The total length of the front lot line (in feet) being the horizontal distance between the side lot lines, as measured at the street right-of-way line, or private street easement line.

An establishment used for undertaking services such as preparing human dead for burial or cremation, display of the deceased and performing human funeral services.

An establishment primarily engaged in rendering services to individuals and business establishments which services cannot be categorized into one of the other defined service use categories in this Ordinance. The services are typically provided without the retail sale of products or which such product sales are incidental to the service-driven purposes of the establishment, such as a beauty salon, day spa, medical massage establishment, or barber shop.

A facility under the operational control of a governmental unit, specifically a township, city, village, county, state, the United States Government, or some combination of governmental units, including, but not limited to, offices, libraries, museums, town halls, post offices, courts, and civic centers; excluding vehicle and equipment maintenance, garages and correctional institutions.

The average elevation of the finished surface of ground after the development, filling, or excavation of a parcel of land.

A private home in which more than six but not more than 12 minor children are given care and supervision for periods of less than 24 hours a day unattended by a parent or legal guardian, except children related to an adult member of the family by blood, marriage, or adoption. Group child care home includes a home that gives care to an unrelated minor child for more than four weeks during a calendar year.

A building containing medical services for acute patient needs or containing an association or group of physicians, dentists, clinical psychologists, or similar professional health care practitioners, including assistants. The clinic may include a pharmacy, dental and mental laboratories, and/or x-ray facilities, but shall not include inpatient or overnight care.

The vertical distance measured from the mean elevation of the finished lot grade along the front yard of the structure to the mean elevation of the roof.

An occupation customarily conducted in a dwelling unit that is clearly an incidental and secondary use of the dwelling.

A building containing lodging rooms, a general kitchen and dining room, a common entrance lobby, halls and stairway, and where lodging rooms do not have a doorway opening directly to the outdoors, except for emergencies, and where the lodging rooms are for rent, with or without meals, to transient guests.

Includes dogs, cats, rabbits, and similar types of pets traditionally kept in a residential home. Wild or exotic animals shall not be considered customary household pets.

A structure, building, or parcel of land, or portion thereof utilized or inherently designed to be utilized for the purpose of production, manufacturing, processing, cleaning, testing, rebuilding, assembly, distribution, finishing, constructing, or printing of goods or products, and related research and development facilities.

Industrial use at which all operations (with the exception of loading operations): are conducted entirely within an enclosed building; are not potentially associated with nuisances such as odor, noise, heat, vibration, and radiation which are detectable at the property line; and do not pose a significant safety hazard (such as danger of explosion).

Any worn out or discarded materials including, but not necessarily limited to: yard debris, scrap metal, scrap paper, scrap lumber, other scrap and discarded materials, and any inoperable motor vehicles, machinery, appliances, or products. Junk includes the above materials, whether they are to landfilled, recycled, sold, or used in some other way.

The permanent keeping of household pets as defined in this Ordinance as an accessory use.

A description of how land is occupied or utilized.

The principal use of a property for off-street parking and loading of motor vehicles as defined in this Ordinance.

An off-street space on the same lot with a building, or group of buildings, for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials.

A parcel of land, or contiguous parcels of land under one ownership described within fixed boundaries, of sufficient size and configuration to meet the site development requirements of this ordinance and having access to a public road or approved private road. The word "lot" shall include plot or parcel. A lot need not be a "lot of record." A lot may also mean a portion of a condominium project, as regulated by Public Act 59 of 1978, as amended, designed and intended for separate or limited ownership and/or use.

The total area within the described lot lines of a parcel of land, excluding road right-of-way, or private road easement area.

The distance from the front lot line to the rear lot line measured in between the side lines of the lot.

The boundaries of a lot which divide one lot from another lot or from a public or existing private road or any other publicly owned parcel of land.

A lot line which abuts a street and which is not a front lot line or a rear lot line.

A lot line which is along an existing or dedicated street. Where the lot abuts more than one dedicated street, the shortest of the lot lines that abut a dedicated street shall be the front lot line.

A lot line which abuts another lot and which is not a front lot line or rear lot line or exterior side lot line.

That lot line which is opposite, parallel or approximately parallel to, and most distant from the front lot line. In the case of an irregular- or triangular-shaped lot, a line at least 10 feet in length, entirely within the lot, and generally parallel to and most distant from the front lot line.

Any parcel of land, the dimensions of which are shown on a document or map on file with the County Register of Deeds records as of the date of adoption of this Ordinance or any relevant amendment thereto which would affect such lot, which lot actually exists as shown or any part of a parcel held in record ownership separate from that of the remainder.

The horizontal distance between side lot lines measured parallel to the front lot line at the required front setback line.

A parcel of land abutting upon two or more streets at their intersection, or upon parts of the same street forming an interior angle of less than 135°.

That portion of the area of lot that contains buildings and structures measured as a percent of the entire lot area.

A lot with access provided to the bulk of the lot by means of a narrow corridor fronting on a public street.

A lot other than a corner lot.

A use of land involved in the operation of, including structures and activities normally integral to servicing, fueling, pumping-out, chartering, launching, and dry-storage of boats and boating equipment.

Any fixed place of business where massages are administered for pay, including but not limited to massage parlors, sauna baths, and steam baths. This definition shall not be construed to include a hospital, nursing home, medical clinic, or the office of a physician, surgeon, chiropractor, osteopath, or physical therapist duly licensed by the State of Michigan, nor barber shops or beauty salons in which massages are administered only to the scalp, the face, the neck or the shoulder. This definition shall not be construed to include a nonprofit organization operating a community center, swimming pool, tennis court, or other educational, cultural, recreational, and athletic facilities for the welfare of the residents of the area, nor practices of massage therapists who meet one or more of the following criteria:

The Master Plan under current adoption by the City including any amendments or updates thereto.

A building containing lodging rooms having adjoining individual bathrooms and where the lodging rooms are for rent to transient guests.

A use of land, publicly or privately owned, involved in the operation of a marina including structures and activities normally integral to the operation of a marina.

A building or portion thereof lawfully existing at the effective date of this Ordinance or amendments thereto, and which does not conform to the provisions of the Ordinance in the zoning district in which it is located.

A platted lot that conformed with all City zoning requirements at the time of recording of said plat, which no longer conforms to the zoning regulations and requirements for lot area, lot width, or both; or a lot outside a recorded plat that conformed with all City zoning requirements at one time, and which has not been subdivided or reduced in size subsequent to the time it did conform to this Ordinance, which no longer conforms with the zoning requirements for lot area, lot width, or both.

A use which lawfully occupied a building or land at the effective date of this Ordinance or amendments thereof, and that does not conform to the use regulations of the zoning district in which it is located.

A parcel of land utilized for the purpose of growing ornamental trees, shrubbery, house plants, flowers, or perennial ground covers from seed or seedlings for the purpose of retail or wholesale trade.

The growing, storage, and sale of garden plants, shrubs, trees, or vines for resale, including incidental retail sales conducted from within a building not exceeding 20% of the combined wholesale and retail sales volume during any year.

A structure with sleeping rooms, where persons are housed or lodged on a full-time basis and are furnished with meals, nursing care, and medical care.

The residing of an individual or individuals overnight in a dwelling unit, or the installation, storage, or use of equipment, merchandise or machinery in any institutional, commercial, agricultural, or industrial building.

Includes the off-street parking spaces, loading/unloading areas, and circulation aisles that are on the same lot(s) or parcel(s) as the development project being submitted for review.

Business uses, with little direct contact with customers present at the office, which is engaged in the processing, manipulation or application of business information or professional expertise. An office use is not materially involved in fabricating, assembling, or warehousing of physical products for the retail or wholesale market, nor is an office engaged in the repair of products or retail services. This use shall include, but not be limited to, professional offices for nonprofit organizations, accounting; insurance, investment services; computer services, architecture; engineering, legal services, real estate services, and doctors' and dentists' offices, but not medical clinics.

A development which contains a number of separate office buildings, accessory and supporting uses, and open space all designed, planned, constructed, and maintained on a coordinated basis.

Open space which is held for the collective use and enjoyment of the owners, tenants, or occupants of a single development.

The City of New Buffalo Zoning Ordinance as adopted and amended.

The subordinate use of a lot for sustained and continuous outdoor use customarily incidental to the primary use of the lot.

Use of an adjacent, outside area by a food or beverage establishment with a liquor license for on-premises consumption, for the same eating and drinking activities that occur within the establishment's building including, without limitation, the service and consumption of alcoholic beverages.

The display and/or sale of merchandise or equipment outside of an enclosed building by the occupant of the primary building of the lot either as a principal or accessory use.

The owner of the freehold of the premises or lesser estate in the premises, a mortgagee or vendee in possession, an assignee of rents, receiver, executor, trustee, lessor, or any other person, sole proprietorship, partnership, association, or corporation directly or indirectly in control of a building, structure, or real property, or the owner's duly authorized agent.

A lot described by metes and bounds or described in a recorded plat.

Any person, proprietor, owner, or operator of a legal entity who loans money on deposit, or pledge of personal property, or other valuable thing, other than securities or printed evidence of indebtedness, or who deals in the purchasing of personal property or other valuable thing on condition of selling the same back again at a stipulated price. An internet drop-off store meeting the requirements detailed in MCLA § 446.201 shall not count as a pawnbroker.

An official document or certificate issued by an authorized official, empowering the holder thereof to perform a specified activity which is not prohibited by law, but not allowed without such authorization.

A building wherein individuals or groups of people gather for an attraction or service used for commercial purposes, such as, but not limited to, recreation establishment, theaters, ice rinks, dance halls, and moving picture theaters.

A building wherein individuals or groups of people gather for an attraction or service not used for commercial purposes such as but not limited to, community centers, fraternal or civic organizations, lodges, libraries, museums, municipal buildings, auditoriums, or religious institutions.

The use of a parcel of land which is planned and developed as a single entity containing the various uses, structures, open spaces, and other elements and which is designated and developed under one owner or organized group, in accordance with the requirements of this Ordinance.

A recorded subdivision of land as provided in Act 288 of 1967, as amended, the Land Division Act.

Any item designed and used as follows: a container which is delivered to a property, which is filled with household items or other non-trash materials, and which is intended to be reused for other items or materials.

The primary or predominant purpose to which a parcel of land is devoted as distinguished from an accessory use.

See "lot line."

A government facility for public safety and emergency services, including a facility that provides police or fire protection and related administrative facilities.

The occupation and use of land, buildings, and structures for purposes directly connected with rail transportation of articles, goods, and passengers, including such facilities as tracks, sidings, signal devices and structures, shops and yards for maintenance and storage of rail machinery, loading platforms, and passenger and freight terminals, but excluding freight terminals and yards, and similar facilities, which are maintained and operated by the owning railroad or by a lessee for the purposes auxiliary to rail transportation, or by a lessee for the purposes auxiliary to rail transportation; provided, however, that the operation of such facilities as a hobby or as part of an amusement business shall not be considered a railroad use.

An outdoor recreation site serving a single or several neighborhood(s) and containing open space and natural resources intended for active and passive recreation. Recreational facilities located in such areas may include, but not necessarily limited to, areas for participating in baseball, softball, tennis, basketball, playground or playfield (which may be associated with a middle or high school), picnicking, swimming, bicycle paths, hiking trails, and bird watching areas, etc.

A vehicle or equipment intended for temporary or periodic use for recreational or leisure pursuits. Such vehicles include boats, airplanes, special purpose automobiles, floats, rafts, trailers, snowmobiles, camping or travel trailers, motorized homes, detachable travel equipment of the type adaptable to light trucks, and other equipment or vehicles of a similar nature.

An establishment for the processing (separation and/or recovery) or collection of recyclable materials from solid wastes. Recycling of oil or other liquids may also occur.

The reconstruction or renewal of any part of an existing building for the purpose of maintenance.

An establishment which by design of physical facilities or by service or packaging procedures permits or encourages the purchase of prepared, ready-to-eat foods intended to be consumed off the premises.

An establishment whose food is available to the general public primarily for consumption within a structure on the premises, where at least 50% of the gross floor area of the establishment is devoted to patron seating.

The reconstruction or replication of an existing building's original architectural features.

A public or private strip of land acquired or utilized by reservation, dedication, easement, prescription, purchase or condemnation and permanently established for the passage of persons, vehicles, railroads, water, utility lines, and similar uses.

Any land or building used for the storage, sorting, dismantling, baling, salvaging, recycling, and/or sale of junk. Junkyards shall not include residential or municipal garden or leaf composting, a municipal dump or landfill, or drop-off stations for residential recyclables.

A structure such as a fence, wall, landscape buffer, or combination of same, providing enclosure and a visual barrier between the area enclosed and the adjacent property.

Christmas tree, pumpkins and similar, temporary (typically recurring on an annual basis) sales for a period not to exceed 30 days.

A building or group of buildings that are used for the storage of personal property, where individual owners or tenants control individual storage spaces.

Licensed personal care facilities, other than hotels, adult foster care homes, hospitals, nursing homes, or county medical care facilities, that provide supervised personal care to 21 or more individuals who are age 60 or older. Facilities that are operated in conjunction with and as a distinct part of a licensed nursing home may serve 20 or fewer adults.

The minimum horizontal distance between a lot line and structures or other uses on a lot as measured perpendicularly from the lot line.

A line parallel to the lot line at a distance therefrom equal to the depth of the minimum required yard for the district in which the lot or parcel is located.

The required minimum horizontal distance between a front, rear, or side lot line and a setback line; provided, however, said horizontal distance shall be measured from the street right-of-way line whenever a yard abuts a public or private street. On lots with multiple street frontage, such as corner lots, all sides of said lots abutting a street shall be considered front yards for setback purposes.

A dwelling unit in which short-term rental activity is permitted to occur subject to the terms and conditions of this ordinance and Chapter 11 of the City Code.

The rental of a dwelling unit for compensation for a term of less than one month. However, short-term rental activity does not include the following: transitional housing operated by a nonprofit entity, group homes such as nursing homes and adult foster care homes, hospitals, housing provided by a substance abuse rehabilitation clinic, mental health facility, other health-care-related clinic, or dwelling units owned by a business entity and made available on a temporary basis to employees of that business entity or employees of a contractor working for that business entity.

Any object, device, display or structure or part thereof which is used to advertise, identify, display, direct or attract the attention to an object, person, institution, organization, business, project, service, event or location by any means including words, letters, figures, designs, symbols, fixtures, colors, motion illumination or projected images. The term sign includes, but is not limited to, every projecting sign, wall sign, roof sign, billboard, posterboard, freestanding sign, ground sign, window sign, vehicle sign, awning sign, canopy sign, marquee sign, changeable copy sign, illuminated sign, flashing sign, animated sign, temporary sign, portable sign or any other attention getting device or other display whether affixed to a building or separate from any building.

A scaled drawing(s) illustrating existing and proposed conditions and containing the elements required herein as applicable to the proposed development to ensure compliance with this Ordinance.

All equipment required to harvest solar energy to generate electricity, including storage devices, power conditioning equipment, transfer equipment, and parts related to the functioning of those items.

A solar energy collection system consisting of elevated solar panels installed above parking lots, carports and other paved areas.

A solar energy collection system and associated mounting hardware that is affixed to or placed upon the ground including but not limited to fixed, passive, or active tracking racking systems and located on a site.

A solar energy collection system that is structurally mounted to the roof of a building or other permitted structure, including limited accessory equipment associated with the system which may be ground-mounted. It is installed parallel to the roof with a few inches gap.

All contiguous land, including structures, appurtenances, and other improvements on the land, used for processing, storing, or disposing of solid waste. The phrase includes a publicly or privately owned facility consisting of one or several processing, storage, or disposal operational units such as landfills, surface impoundments, or a combination of units.

For the purposes of this Ordinance shall be defined as:

For the purposes of this Ordinance shall be defined as follows:

Any site, or portion thereof, that is used for the storage of any products or materials, vehicles, equipment, junk, or scrap outside the confines of an enclosed building.

That part of a building included between the surface of any floor, excluding basements, and the surface of the next floor, or if there is no floor above, then the ceiling next above.

A privately owned and maintained thoroughfare including any rights-of-way and traveled surfaces which afford traffic circulation and principal means of access to abutting property, including avenue, place, way, drive, lane, boulevard, highway, road, and other thoroughfare. A private street shall include any drive or roadway which is not a dedicated public right-of-way, and which provides or has the potential for providing access to two or more existing parcels and/or main buildings.

A public thoroughfare including any rights-of-way and traveled surfaces which afford traffic circulation and principal means of access to abutting property, including avenue, place, way, drive, lane, boulevard, highway, road, and other thoroughfare; except an alley.

Any change in the supporting members of a building such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders, or in the dimensions or configurations, or of the roof and exterior walls or means of egress.

A combination of materials whether fixed or portable, anything constructed, erected, or artificially built-up which requires a location on or below the surface of land or water, including a part or parts thereof and all equipment within the structure.

Towers erected for the purpose of providing commercial wireless telecommunication services or other radio wave communications.

The purpose or activity for which land or structures are designed, arranged, or intended, or for which land or structures are occupied or maintained.

Permission given by the Board of Appeals to a property owner to depart from the literal requirements of this ordinance which may occur when compliance with this Ordinance would create a practical difficulty or unnecessary hardship on the property owner.

Permission granted by the Board of Appeals to a property owner to place a use on the property or within a building on the property which is not otherwise permitted in the zoning district in which the property is located.

Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, or road, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.

Any lot or parcel of land or portion thereof used partly or entirely for storing or dispensing flammable liquids, combustible liquids, liquified flammable gas, or flammable gas into the fuel tanks of motor vehicles.

The vertical exterior surface of a building and the vertical interior surfaces which divide a building's space into rooms.

A use engaged in storage, wholesale, and distribution of manufactured products, supplies, and equipment.

Portable activities which can be carried out only on, in, or adjacent to water areas because the use requires access to the water body for movement, including ports or marinas.

An open trench either naturally or artificially created which periodically or continuously contains moving water draining an area of at least two acres which has definite banks, a bed and visible evidence of a continued flow or occurrence of water.

A boat, houseboat, canoe, raft, surfboard, or other apparatus designed for use on water, including trailers therefore, and motors or engines designed to propel such craft or apparatus.

The use of land involved in the temporary docking, fueling, and refueling of watercraft and boats.

An establishment primarily engaged in selling and/or distributing merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional, or professional business users, or to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers and buying merchandise to such persons.

An open space on the same land with a building or group of buildings, which open space lies between the building or group of buildings and the nearest lot line and is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided herein.

The horizontal distance between a front, rear, interior side, or exterior side lot line and a setback line.

A yard extending along the side lot line adjoining a public street and located between the front and rear yards.

A yard extending from the front lot line to the front setback line. On corner lots and through lots, both street lot lines are considered front lot lines without regard to location of the main entrance of the principal building.

A yard extending along the side lot line not adjoining a public street and located between the front and rear yards.

A yard extending from the rear setback line to the rear lot line.

A yard extending along the side lot line to the side setback line and located between the front and rear yards.

The dividing of the City into districts of a number and shape considered best suited to carry out the purposes of the Michigan Zoning Enabling Act and the creation of uniform regulations throughout each individual district. Such districts are referred to as zoning districts in this Ordinance.

The individual designated by the City to administer and enforce this Ordinance.

A permit to be issued by the Zoning Administrator the purpose of which is to indicate that the activity or development being requested of the City is in compliance with all the regulations contained in this Ordinance in the situations specified in Section Z8-03C.