A subordinate building having a use customarily incidental to and located on the lot occupied by the main building. 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 designed as an integral part of the main building. For the purposes of this Article, items such as basketball goals and uprights, bird baths, swing sets and landscaping related site amenities such as benches, yard lighting, statuary and landscape timbers used to define yard area shall not be considered accessory buildings for the purpose of yard requirements.

A subordinate use which is incidental to that of the main building or use and which is located in the same lot with such main building or use.

A minor public or private right-of-way shown on a plat, providing secondary vehicular access to the rear or side of a lot, block, parcel of land, otherwise abutting a street.

A room or suite of rooms within a building, provided with separate cooking and sanitary facilities and intended as a single dwelling unit.

Construction plans revised to show a facility or structure actually constructed and as it appears on a tract of land involved.

As used herein, the term includes passenger cars, motorcycles, vans and trucks.

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

A story having part but not more than one-half (½) of its height below grade. A basement is counted as a story for the purpose of height regulation if subdivided and used for business or dwelling purposes.

Any structure designed or intended for the support, enclosure, shelter or protection of persons or property.

The vertical distance from the grade to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the deck line of a mansard roof or to the mean height level between eaves and ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs.

A story having more than one-half (½) of its height below grade. A cellar is not included in computing the number of stories for the purpose of height measurements.

A place for burial of the dead, including crematory facilities as an accessory use.

An institution providing diverse health care or medical treatment for outpatient or ambulatory sick or injured persons, including medical personnel and ancillary facilities such as laboratories, but not including inpatient care or operating rooms for major surgery.

A building or premise used for social, recreational, dining or philanthropic purposes the normal use of which is limited to specific members, patrons or otherwise listed and enumerated persons.

A facility for the daytime care of three (3) or more preschool children not otherwise residents of said facility.

Any section of the City of Oakland within which the zoning regulations are uniform.

A building designated or used exclusively for residential occupancy, but not including mobile homes, hotels or motels.

A building designed for or occupied exclusively by one (1) family.

A professional engineer registered in the State of Missouri.

To build, construct, install, attach, hang, place, inscribe, suspend or affix.

One (1) or more persons occupying a dwelling and living as a single housekeeping unit, all but two (2) of whom are related to each other by birth, adoption or marriage. Per Section 89.020, RSMo., a State licensed group home of up to eight (8) mentally or physically handicapped individuals plus up to two (2) house parents and a Foster Home licensed by the Division of Family Services or Department of Mental Health, with up to seven (7) foster children who are unrelated to the Foster Parents shall qualify as a family.

An enclosure or barrier constructed of posts, supports, boards, wires, stakes, bricks, stones or rails.

The finished first floor height is calculated as the height of a finished first floor measured at the approved finished grade to the finished first floor at the horizontal center of the front foundation wall as depicted in Figure 405.055-A below.

The horizonal area of a floor of a building measured from the interior face of the exterior walls of building, without deduction for hallways, closets, thickness of walls, columns or other features. For the purposes of computing floor area for half story, any portion of the floor area measuring less than five (5) feet from the finished floor to the finished ceiling shall not be included in the computation of floor area.

The gross floor area of a structure, as defined herein, adjusted as follows:

The sum of the floor areas for all stories of a building as defined herein.

The ratio of the adjusted gross area of a primary structure to the total area of the site.

The lineal measure of a property abutting on one (1) side of a street measured along the dividing line between the property and the street right-of-way.

A detached accessory building or portion of the main building housing or designed to house the automobiles of the occupants of the premises.

The average level of the approved finished surface of the ground adjacent to the exterior walls of the structure. In the case the walls are within five (5) feet of a public sidewalk, alley or right-of-way, the grade shall be the elevation of the sidewalk, alley or right-of-way.

A building or portion thereof used for athletic training or sports activities, including accessory seating for spectators.

An accessory use conducted in a single-family dwelling or accessory building which is:

An establishment consisting of a group of attached or detached living or sleeping accommodations, each with a bathroom, located on a single lot and designed for use by the traveling public and tourists and furnishing customary hotel services.

A non-profit establishment for public use.

A parcel of land upon which the principal or accessory use is the accumulation of used, discarded or worn out materials or manufactured products, any of which may or may not be reusable or salable.

A space having a minimum dimension of twelve (12) feet by thirty-five (35) feet and a vertical clearance of fourteen (14) feet within the main building or on the same lot providing for the standing, loading or unloading of trucks.

Lot coverage shall include the total area of all principal and accessory buildings as measured along the outside wall at ground level or above as viewed from above and include all projections other than open porches, fire escapes or the first (1st) three (3) feet of a roof overhang. Roads, driveways, parking lots and swimming pools shall not be included in the maximum lot coverage requirement. The percent of lot coverage shall be computed as follows:

Land occupied or intended for occupancy by a use permitted in this Chapter, including one (1) main building, together with its accessory buildings, the yards, parking and loading spaces required herein and having its principal frontage upon a street.

A lot abutting upon two (2) or more streets at their intersection.

The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot line.

An interior lot having frontages on two (2) streets.

A lot which is a part of a subdivision, the map of which has been recorded in the office of the County Recorder or a parcel of land, the deed of which was recorded in the office of the County Recorder prior to the adoption of this Chapter.

The width of a lot at the front yard line.

The unobstructed area needed for a truck to back, in a single movement, directly from the access street into a loading space, the depth of which is measured perpendicular to and from the front of said loading space to the curb side of the most remote traffic lane in the access street.

Cannabis indica, Cannabis sativa, and Cannabis ruderalis, hybrids of such species, and any other strains commonly understood within the scientific community to constitute marijuana, as well as resin extracted from the plant and marijuana-infused products. "Marijuana" or "Marihuana" do not include industrial hemp containing a crop-wide average tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that does not exceed three-tenths of one percent (0.3%) on a dry weight basis, or commodities or products manufactured from industrial hemp.

Products that are infused with marijuana or an extract thereof and are intended for use or consumption other than by smoking, including, but not limited to, edible products, ointments, tinctures and concentrates.

A facility licensed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to acquire, cultivate, process, store, transport, and sell marijuana to a medical marijuana dispensary facility, medical marijuana testing facility, or to a medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility.

A facility licensed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to acquire, store, sell, transport, and deliver marijuana, marijuana-infused products, and drug paraphernalia used to administer marijuana to a qualifying patient, a primary caregiver, another medical marijuana dispensary facility, a medical marijuana testing facility, or a medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility.

A facility licensed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to acquire, store, manufacture, transport, and sell marijuana-infused products to a medical marijuana dispensary facility, a medical marijuana testing facility, or to another medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility.

A facility certified by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to acquire, test, certify, and transport marijuana.

A use, building or yard existing legally at the time of the passage of this Article, or any amendment thereto, which does not, by reason of design, use or dimensions, conform to the regulations of the district in which it is situated.

A building or buildings in which elderly, chronically ill and disabled persons who are patients therein will be provided full support living facilities including twenty-four (24) hour nursing supervision.

Official certification that a structure conforms to all applicable City ordinances and requirements and may be used or occupied, proposed and approved.

A building or portion of a building wherein services are performed involving predominantly administrative, professional or clerical operations.

A durably surfaced area, unenclosed or enclosed in the main building or in an accessory building having a rectangular area of not less than two hundred (200) square feet and a minimum width of ten (10) feet, exclusive of driveways, permanently reserved for the temporary storage of one (1) automobile and connected with a street or alley by a surfaced driveway not less than twenty-four (24) feet in width for cars parked at a ninety degree (90°) angle, nor less than eighteen (18) feet in width for cars parked at an angle of forty-five degrees (45°) or less, to afford satisfactory ingress and egress for such parked vehicles. In parking structures, one-half (½) of the area occupied by supporting columns may be included in determining the width and area of each adjacent parking space and the minimum height of such space shall be seven (7) feet.

Land and/or structures situated thereon.

The legally recorded boundary of a lot, tract or other parcel of land.

Public parks, playgrounds, recreational areas, designated scenic or a historic site; school sites or sites for other public buildings and other areas dedicated to public use.

A vehicular-type portable structure without permanent foundation, which can be towed, hauled or driven, and primarily designed as temporary living accommodation for recreational, camping, and travel use, including, but not limited to, travel trailers, truck campers, camping trailers and self-propelled motor homes. The term as used herein shall also include the following types of vehicle: boats, all-terrain vehicles, trailers (including, but not limited to, boat, motorcycle, and utility trailers), and such other vehicles as may be lawfully registered as a recreational vehicle.

Any school other than a public school, including schools owned and operated by a business establishment, a foundation or an institution, as well as private or parochial elementary, junior or senior high schools or private and parochial colleges and universities.

Any school operated by a public school district or by a City, County, State or Federal Government agency.

Any display, name, identification, description, illustration, device, building or building treatment which is visible from any public space or is located on private property and exposed to public view and which directs attention to a product, place, activity, person, service, institution, profession, business for solicitation.

A plan, to scale, showing uses and structures proposed for a parcel of land as required by the regulations involved. It includes lot lines, streets, building sites, reserved open space, buildings, major natural and manmade landscape features, off-street parking or loading spaces and, depending on the requirements, the locations of proposed utility lines.

A private stable having a capacity of not more than four (4) horses.

That portion of a building, other than a cellar, included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it or, if there be no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it.

A space under a sloping roof which has the line of intersection of roof decking and wall face not more than three (3) feet above the top floor level and in which space not more than sixty percent (60%) of the floor area is finished off for use. A half story may be used for occupancy only in conjunction with and by the occupants of the floor immediately below.

A general term denoting a public or private thoroughfare which affords the principal means of access to abutting property. The term includes all facilities which normally are found within the right-of-way; it shall also include such other designations as highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, pike, avenue, boulevard, lane, place, forge or other such terms but shall not include pedestrian way or alley.

A dividing line between a lot, tract or parcel of land and a contiguous street.

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

That which is built or constructed including, but not limited to, buildings for any occupancy or use whatsoever, fences, signs, billboards, fire escapes, chute escapes, railings, water tanks, towers, open grate steps, sidewalks or stairways, tents or anything erected and framed of component parts which is fastened, anchored or rests on a permanent foundation or on the ground. For the purposes of this Article, items such as basketball goals and uprights, bird baths, swing sets and landscaping related site amenities such as benches, yard lighting, statuary and landscape timbers used to define areas shall not be considered as structures for the purpose of yard requirements.

The purpose of activity for which land or a building thereon is designed, arranged or intended or for which it is maintained and shall include any manner or performance of such activity with respect to the performance requirements of this Chapter.

The annual sale of more than four (4) used vehicles not in conjunction with an automotive sales establishment.

A grant of relief to a person from the requirements of this Chapter which permits construction in a manner otherwise prohibited by this Chapter where specific enforcement would result in an extreme hardship or severe practical difficulty to such person.

Any self-powered vehicle moving on wheels or runners used as a means of transport.

An open space on the same lot with a building, 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 a rear yard, the minimum horizontal distance between the lot line and the main building shall be used.

A yard extending the full width of the lot between a main building and the front lot line.

A yard extending the full width of the lot between a main building and the rear lot line. On corner lots the rear yard shall be considered as parallel to the street upon which the lot has its least dimension. On both corner lots and interior lots, the rear yard shall in all cases be at the opposite end of the lot from the front yard.

An open space between the front and rear yards of a lot and between the side lot lines and the main building or any projections thereof.