A use or building customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use or building and located on the same lot.

A person, establishment or business, whether retail or wholesale, having more than a minimal portion of its stock-in-trade, recordings, books, magazines, periodicals, films, video tapes/cassettes or other viewing materials for sale or viewing on or off the premises, which are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or anatomical areas, or a person, establishment or business containing a segment or section devoted to the sale or display of such material.

An establishment devoted to adult entertainment, either with or without a liquor license, presenting material whether live, mechanical, electronic or by other technological means, distinguished or characterized by its emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to sexual activities or anatomical areas, including cabarets that feature topless dancers, nude dancers, strippers or similar entertainers for observation by patrons.

An adult bookstore, adult motion-picture theater, adult motion-picture arcade, adult cabaret or adult use.

Any place to which the public is permitted or invited wherein coin- or slug-operated or electronically, electrically or mechanically controlled still- or motion-picture machines, projectors or other image-producing devices are maintained to show images to five or fewer persons per machine at any one time, and where the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on depicting or describing specific sexual activities or anatomical areas.

An enclosed or unenclosed building, structure or portion thereof used for presenting materials distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specific sexual activities or anatomical areas for observation by patrons.

Any person, establishment or business involved in the viewing or dissemination of material distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to a specific sexual activity or anatomical area.

Land which is used for raising livestock or agricultural products, including farm structures and the storage of agricultural equipment; riding and boarding stables, kennels and veterinaries; greenhouses and nurseries; and, as an accessory use, the sale of agricultural products raised on the property.

A public way providing a secondary means of public access to abutting properties.

A structural change, rearrangement, change of location or addition to a building, other than repairs and modification in building equipment.

A system of electrical conductors that transmit or receive frequency signals. Such signals shall include but not be limited to radio, television, cellular, paging, digital and/or data communications, personal wireless communications services (PWS) and microwave communications.

The commercial activity of purchasing, storing, displaying, repairing, refinishing, selling of antique chattels and related refinishing materials.

An establishment licensed to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises.

A story partly underground. A basement shall be counted as a story if the vertical distance between the basement ceiling and the average grade level of the adjoining ground is more than six feet.

An owner-occupied residence resulting from a conversion of a one-family dwelling, used for providing overnight accommodations and a morning meal to not more than 10 transient lodgers and containing at least three but not more than five bedrooms for such lodgers.

Land surrounded by streets or such physical barrier as a stream or railroad right-of-way, within subdivided and urban areas.

A building wherein more than four people are sheltered for profit.

A building used exclusively for the storage of boats and boat equipment.

A structure having a roof supported by columns or walls and intended for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals or chattels.

The total of the areas taken on a horizontal plane at the main finished grade level of the principal building and all accessory buildings exclusive of uncovered porches, terraces and steps. All dimensions shall be measured between exterior faces of walls.

A building surrounded by open space on the same lot.

The line parallel to the front lot line transecting that point in the building face which is closest to the front lot line. This face includes porches, whether enclosed or unenclosed, but does not include steps.

The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed finished grade at the front of the building to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs and to the mean height between the eaves and the ridge for gable, hip, mansard and gambrel roofs.

A building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot on which it is situated.

Any commercial enterprise, association or arrangement for profit.

Land on which is located one or more cabins, trailers, shelters, houseboats or other accommodations suitable for seasonal or temporary living purposes, excluding mobile homes.

An office building used by members of the medical profession for the diagnosis and outpatient treatment of human ailments.

Includes the YMCA, YWCA and YMHA and a fraternity, sorority and lodge and religious and similar clubs which may have dormitory accommodations.

A building or land used for the activities of an association of persons for the promotion of some nonprofit common objective, such as civic, fraternal or cultural, and not accessory to or operated as or in connection with a tavern, eating place, or other place open to the public, which meets periodically and is limited to members.

Includes a public or private meeting hall, place of assembly, museum, art gallery, library, place of further education and church, not operated primarily for profit.

Unoccupied open space other than a yard. An "outer court" is one which extends to the front, side or rear yards; an "inner court" is any other court.

That percentage of the lot area covered by the building area.

A facility maintained for the whole or part of the day but for less than twenty-four-hour care of five or more children, not related to the owner, operator, or manager thereof, from the ages of six weeks through 16 years, whether such facility is operated with or without compensation for such care, and with or without stated educational purposes, subject to the licensing requirements of the state.

A development plan shall be prepared by an architect, engineer, landscape architect, land surveyor or planning consultant and shall include the following information:

A preliminary development plan shall include the following information:

The transfer of possession, custody, control or ownership of or the exhibition or presentation of any performance to a customer, member of the public or business invitee of any material distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specific sexual activities or anatomical areas.

Includes fraternity, sorority and nurses homes and college dormitories.

Facilities where services or products may be obtained by motorists without leaving their vehicles.

Land used by vehicular traffic as access to and situated on the property or lot.

Land used for the disposal by abandonment, dumping, burial, burning or any other means and for whatever purpose of garbage, sewage, trash, refuse, junk, discarded machinery, vehicles or parts thereof or waste material of any kind.

A single-family dwelling unit with party walls separating it from adjacent units on both sides.

A building or portion thereof containing three or more dwelling units designed or used for occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other.

A dwelling unit, excluding a single wide mobile home, designed for or occupied exclusively by one or more persons living as a single housekeeping unit.

See the definition for "dwelling, attached or row."

A site-built or sectional unit structure used as living quarters by two families living independently of each other.

A building or part thereof used as living quarters for one family. The terms "dwelling," "one-family dwelling," "two-family dwelling" or "dwelling group" shall not include a motel, hotel, boardinghouse or tourist home.

The person appointed by the Town Board, or his designated deputy, to perform the duties herein conferred on the enforcement officer.

The excavation of overburden and minerals from the earth; the preparation and processing of minerals, including any activities or processes or parts thereof for the extraction or removal of minerals from their original location and the preparation, washing, cleaning, crushing, stockpiling or other processing of minerals at the mine location so as to make them suitable for commercial, industrial or construction use; exclusive of manufacturing processes, at the mine location; the removal of such materials through sale or exchange, or for commercial, industrial or municipal use; and the disposition of overburden, tailings and waste at the mine location. Extraction of natural products shall not include the excavation, removal and disposition of minerals from construction projects or the creation of farm ponds or excavations in aid of agricultural activities.

One or more persons living, sleeping, cooking and eating on the same premises as a single housekeeping unit, provided that, unless all members are related by blood, marriage or adoption, no such single housekeeping unit shall contain more than five members.

The sum of the gross horizontal area of the floors of a building, excluding basement floor areas. All dimensions shall be measured between interior faces of walls.

The floor area of rooms in a dwelling unit, used for bedrooms, living room, dining room and kitchen.

Enclosed space for the storage of motor vehicles, provided that no business or service is conducted for profit therein.

A garage available to the public, operated for gain, and which is used for the storage, repair, rental, painting, washing, servicing or equipping of motor vehicles.

A building or land that is used for the sale of motor fuel, oil and motor vehicle accessories and which may include facilities for lubricating, washing or servicing motor vehicles, but not including painting or major repairs.

Completed surfaces of ground, lawns, walks and paved areas, brought to grades as shown on plans relating thereto or in existence at the time the certificate of occupancy is issued.

Land to which stone, sand, gravel, clay, topsoil or cinders is added to adjust the existing grade to conform to the natural grade of the surrounding area, thereby improving the usability of the land.

Land or a building used for the taking off or landing of a helicopter.

Includes a sanitorium, clinic, rest home, nursing home, convalescent home, home for the aged or any other place for the diagnosis and treatment of human ailments.

A building containing rooms which are used or rented to be occupied for sleeping purposes and where a general kitchen and dining room may be provided within the building or in an accessory building.

One or more buildings providing temporary lodging, primarily to persons who have residences elsewhere. The building or buildings may have an interior hall or exterior entrances to individual rooms. Inns differ from hotels and motels with respect to scale and design of the buildings, which should be contextually sensitive to surrounding architecture and uses.

Land or a building used for the collecting, storage or sale of wastepaper, rags, scrap metal or discarded material or for the collecting, wrecking, dismantling, storage, salvaging and sale of vehicle or machinery parts.

Land or a building used for the harboring of five or more dogs over six months old.

Land or water used for the taking off or landing of fixed wing aircraft or sailplanes.

Any business primarily engaged in the improvement, arrangement, adornment or decoration of land by planting or maintaining flowers, trees, shrubs and ground cover.

A solar energy system that is ground mounted and produces energy primarily for the purpose of off site sale or consumption.

Domestic farms animals which are typically kept for breeding, production of agricultural products, sale, consumption or pleasure.

Off-street space used for the temporary location of one licensed motor vehicle, which is at least 12 feet wide and 60 feet long, not including an access driveway, and having direct access to a street or alley.

Land occupied or to be occupied by a building and its accessory buildings, together with such open spaces as are required, having not less than the minimum area, width and depth required for a lot in the district in which such land is situated and having frontage on a street or other means of access as may be determined by the Planning Board to be adequate as a condition for the issuance of a building permit for a building on such land.

The total area within the property lines, excluding any part thereof lying within the boundaries of a public street or proposed public street.

A lot which has an interior angle of less than 135° at the intersection of two street lines. A lot abutting a curved street shall be considered a corner lot if the tangents to the curve at the points of intersection of the side lot lines intersect at an interior angle of less than 135°.

The mean horizontal distance from the street line of the lot to its opposite rear line measured at right angles to the building front line.

A lot whose rear and front line abut an existing or proposed street. The front yard setback shall apply for each street.

The distance measured across the width of the lot at the building front line or at the proposed building front line.

The property lines bounding a lot.

A lot which has been established as such by plat, survey or deed prior to the date of adoption of this chapter[1] and as shown on the records of the County Clerk.

The width measured at right angles to its lot depth, at the required building front line.

Any excavation from which a mineral is to be produced for sale or exchange, or for commercial, industrial or municipal use; all haulageways and all equipment above, on or below the surface of the ground used in connection with such excavation, and all lands included in the life of the mine.

Any naturally formed, usually inorganic, solid material located on or below the surface of the earth. For purposes of this article, peat and topsoil shall be considered "minerals."

Ten percent of gross sales for any calendar year.

A portable unit designed and built to be towed on its own chassis, comprised of a frame and wheels, connected to utilities and designed without a permanent foundation for year-round living. A unit may contain parts that may be folded, collapsed or telescoped when being towed and expanded later to provide additional cubic capacity. Such definition does not include sectional unit structures, travel trailers, motorized homes, pickup coaches and camping trailers.

Land on which two or more mobile homes are parked or which is used for the purpose of supplying to the public a parking space for two or more mobile homes.

A building containing rooms which are rented as a series of sleeping units for automobile transients, each sleeping unit consisting of at least a bedroom and bathroom.

A motor-powered device in, upon or by which a person or property may be transported upon a street or highway.

Land used for the display and sale of new and used motor vehicles, trailers, mobile homes and boats.

An enclosed establishment for the display and sale of new and used motor vehicles, trailers, mobile homes and boats and which shall not include open display or storage of such vehicles.

Includes government buildings, municipal community halls, ambulance houses and firehouses and public works buildings.

A building, structure or use of land existing at the time of enactment or subsequent district amendment of this chapter and which does not conform to the regulations of the zoning district in which it is situated.

All uses of buildings, structures or land, except one-family dwellings, two-family dwellings and multiple-family dwellings and their accessory uses.

A building where persons are housed and furnished with meals and nursing or convalescent care.

Include all business, professional, banking, finance, insurance, real estate, medical, governmental and utility service company offices.

Include dental and clinical offices and planned parenthood centers staffed by licensed medical practitioners for the diagnosis and outpatient treatment of human ailments.

All of the earth, vegetation and other materials which lie above or alongside a mineral deposit.

The person or persons holding title to the property.

An area of land which is developed or intended for development with landscaping and other features which promote recreational activities to the public. May be either publicly or privately owned.

Off-street space used for the temporary location of one licensed motor vehicle, which is at least 10 feet wide by 20 feet long, not including an access driveway, and having direct access to a street or alley. In the case of a parking lot serving an industrial site, the applicable dimensions shall be nine feet wide by 19 feet long.

The supporting member of a wall or structure built in accordance with Chapter 40, Building Construction, § 40-21, of the Owego Town Code.

Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, club, association or legal representative, acting individually or jointly.

Includes a barber, hairdresser, beauty parlor, shoe repair, shoeshine, laundry, laundromat, dry cleaner and photographic studio and businesses providing similar services of a personal nature.

A residence in which the occupant has the professional office of an architect, accountant, chiropractor, dentist, doctor of medicine, landscape architect, land surveyor, lawyer, optometrist, osteopath, physiotherapist, planning consultant, podiatrist, engineer or psychologist, which is clearly secondary to the dwelling use for living purposes and does not change the residential character thereof and where not more than one person outside the family is employed.

Includes an auditorium, theater, public hall, school hall, meeting hall, church or temple.

Includes offices and accessory uses of gas, electricity, water, sewage, telephone and telegraph service companies.

An area of five or more acres of land devoted to or to be devoted to use by the public for, but not limited to, camping (in trailers or otherwise), carnivals, circuses, field days, festivals of any kind, golfing, picnicking, racing of any kind, swimming and other guest-type activities generally regarded as recreational.

Includes a golf driving range, golf pitch-and-putt course, par-three golf course, outdoor amusement park or hunting preserve.

Includes an indoor bowling alley, theater, table tennis and pool hall, skating rink, gymnasium, swimming pool or hobby workshop and similar places of indoor commercial recreation.

Includes a yacht club, golf course, trap, skeet and archery range, swimming pool, skating rink, riding stable, park, lake and beach, tennis court, recreation stadium and skiing facility and carnivals, circuses, field days and festivals.

Includes a publicly owned and operated playground, playfield, park, open space and swimming pool.

A building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, where persons regularly assembly for religious worship and which building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, is maintained and controlled by a religious body organized to sustain public worship.

Includes a one-family dwelling, two-family dwelling or multiple-family dwelling and their accessory uses.

Any establishment, however designed, at which food is sold for consumption on the premises to patrons seated within an enclosed building or elsewhere on the premises. A snack bar or refreshment stand at a public, semipublic or community swimming pool, playground, playfield or park, or an approved vendor operating the recreational facilities for the convenience of the patrons of the facility, shall not be deemed to be a restaurant.

Establishments engaged in the sale or rental of goods at retail, engaged in providing a service(s) to individuals, and/or engaged in the provision of repair services to consumers and households. This category excludes animal sales or service; building and garden materials, supplies, sales or rental; food sales or markets; and motor vehicle and related equipment sales, leasing, rental, or repair. All uses shall be enclosed unless otherwise indicated. This category includes the following lists of uses:

A site at which a mixture of garbage, rubbish, refuse and ashes is deposited into a trench or other depression and is immediately compacted and promptly covered with a layer of earth.

Includes a parochial, private, public and nursery school, a college or university and their accessory uses and shall exclude a commercially operated school of beauty culture, business, dancing, driving or music and similar establishments.

A public or private school meeting all requirements of the compulsory education laws of the state and providing instruction to students in kindergarten through grade 12. Secondary schools consist of middle schools and high schools, generally grades 7 through 12.

A factory-manufactured home or sectional mobile home that incorporates structures or components designed for residential occupancy, constructed by a method or system of construction whereby the structure or component is wholly or in substantial part manufactured in a manufacturing facility and is affixed to a permanent foundation.

Includes those parts of a lot which are used primarily to provide access for servicing the uses on the lot, including land used for the delivery of goods or the storage and collection of waste.

A building or buildings containing a group of compatible retail stores and business office uses, designed and developed under unified control and providing common parking areas and loading facilities.

Any device, structure, building or part thereof, for visual communication, that is used for the purpose of bringing the subject thereof to the attention of the public, which shall display or include any letter, word, model, banner, emblem, pennant, insignia or representation which is in the nature of an announcement, direction or advertisement which is placed out of doors. "Sign" does not include the flag or insignia of any nation, state or community.

A sign which directs attention to a business, industry, profession, service, commodity or entertainment conducted, sold or offered elsewhere than upon the same lot. This does not include a gateway sign.

A sign which directs attention to a business, industry, profession, service, commodity or entertainment sold or offered upon the same lot on which it is displayed, including "for sale or rent" signs.

A sign used for stating the name or location of a public facility, church, institution or meeting place of a public service organization or for designating a driveway used by the public.[3]

An electrically activated, changeable sign whose variable message capability can be electronically programmed. Any proposed electronic message center must be equipped with automatic dimming capabilities or a photocell that detects ambient light and adjusts brightness levels accordingly. The proposed sign shall hold a static message for a minimum of five seconds. Transitions between advertisements shall be limited to one second with no animated transitions. Hours of operation shall be limited to 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. when abutting a residential zone.

A monument ground sign constructed of natural masonry or stone, located on non-public-owned property, for use in presenting public announcements, emergency and local government messages and limited controlled advertisement, in a format approved by the Town of Owego.

A sign designed to give forth or reflect light.

A permanent ground sign that is installed without using a column or pole for primary support but rather is anchored to the earth by means of a foundation that becomes part of the sign structure.

A structure or building consisting of material and components transported to and assembled at the site, for residential occupancy and affixed to a permanent foundation.

A building in which horses are kept for public use, hire or sale.

Enclosed buildings used for the keeping of goods, supplies or equipment.

Land used for the keeping of goods, supplies or equipment.

That part of a building which is between one floor level and the next higher floor level or, if there is no floor above it, the ceiling above it.

A public way for vehicular traffic which affords the principal means of access to abutting properties.

The line midway between and parallel to two street property lines.

Lot lines which abut a public street.

The officially established grade of the street upon which a lot fronts. If there is no officially established grade, the existing grade of the street shall be taken as the street grade.

The right-of-way line of a street as dedicated by a deed of record. Where the width of the street is not established, the street line shall be considered to be 30 feet from the center line of the street pavement.

Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires a location on the ground or attachment to something located on the ground.

The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots, blocks or sites for the purpose of conveyance, transfer of ownership, improvement, building development or sale. The term subdivision includes resubdivision. A subdivision shall not include the division of land for agricultural purposes into two or more parcels and which does not involve the creation of a new street or highway.

An artificial pool of water having a depth at any point of more than 18 inches and a surface area of greater than 100 square feet, designed or intended for the purpose of bathing or swimming, and including all appurtenant equipment.

Towers and/or antennas and their accessory structures together used in connection with the provision of cellular telephone service, personal communications services, digital and/or data communication services, paging services, radio and television broadcast services and similar broadcast services. (Also referred to as "facilities" or "equipment.") The aforementioned accessory structures are nonhabitable buildings or structures being used in conjunction with a tower or other telecommunications facility, and which are usually located on the same lot as those facilities. Examples of such structures include utility or transmission storage sheds or cabinets.

A building or part of a building devoted to the performing arts or moving pictures.

Land with its appurtenant facilities, devoted primarily to the showing of moving pictures or theatrical productions to patrons seated in automobiles or on outdoor seats.

A recreation area designed and equipped for the use of preschool children.

A dwelling in which overnight accommodation is provided for transient guests for compensation.

A structure designed to support antennas. It includes, without limit, freestanding towers, guyed wires, monopoles and similar structures which do or which do not employ camouflage technology.

A vehicular portable structure designed as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation uses and not for year-round living.

Include such trees as maple, oak, sycamore, plane, fir, spruce, hemlock, birch, ash, hackberry, tulip, maidenfern, linden, locust, alder, dogwood, magnolia, chestnut and hawthorn.

The specific purpose for which land, a building or structure is designed, intended, used or maintained.

A use specifically allowed in the district, excluding illegal uses and nonconforming uses.

Every device so constructed or designed, upon, in or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway.

Includes a warehouse, wholesale establishment, discount house and bulk storage and bulk sales outlet.

Includes a bird sanctuary, zoo, forest reserve, game reserve or botanical garden.

Space on a lot not occupied with a building or structure. Porches, whether enclosed or unenclosed, shall be considered as part of the main building and shall not project into a required yard.

The yard between the front lot line and the front line of a building extended to the side lot lines of the lot. The depth of the front yard shall be measured from the street line to the front line of the building.

An open unoccupied space on the same lot as the building, between the rear line of the building and the rear line of the lot and extending the full width of the lot.

The yard between the principal building or accessory building and a side lot line and extending through from the front yard to the rear yard.