In the construction of this title, the rules and definitions contained in this chapter shall be observed and applied, except when the context clearly indicates otherwise:

A.

Words used in the present tense include the future;

B.

Words in the singular number include the plural number, and words in the plural number include the singular number;

C.

The phrase "used for" includes the phrases "arranged for," "designed for," "intended for," "maintained for," and "occupied for";

D.

"Shall" is mandatory;

E.

"May" is permissive;

F.

The English system of measurements is the official system of measurement for this title. Where metric and English measurements are shown, the English measurement shall be used and metric measurement disregarded. In those situations where the English equivalent is not shown, the metric measurement shall be converted to the English equivalent, using the following table:

(Ord. 799 § 1, 1982; Ord. 560 § 1, 1976; Ord. 280 § 3.01, 1968.)

"Abandonment" means an action to give up one's rights or interests in property.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

A.

An "accessory building or use" is one which:

1.

Is subordinate to and serves a principal building or principal use;

2.

Is subordinate in area, extent or purpose to the principal building or principal use served;

3.

Contributes to the comfort, convenience, or necessity of occupants of the principal building or principal use served; and

4.

Is located on the same zoning lot as the principal building or principal use served with the single exception of such accessory off-street parking facilities as are permitted to locate elsewhere than on the same zoning lot with the building or use served.

B.

An "accessory use" includes, but is not limited to, the following:

1.

A children's playhouse, garden house and private greenhouse;

2.

A shed, garage or building for domestic storage;

3.

Incinerators incidental to residential use;

4.

Storage of merchandise normally carried in stock on the same lot with any retail service or business use, unless such storage is excluded by the district regulations;

5.

Storage of goods used in or produced by manufacturing activities on the same lot or parcel of ground with such activities unless such storage is excluded by the district regulations;

6.

A nonpaying guesthouse or rooms for guests within an accessory building, provided such facilities are used for the occasional housing of guests of the occupants of the principal building and not for permanent occupancy by others as housekeeping units;

7.

Servants' quarters comprising part of an accessory garage and solely for occupancy by a servant or household employee (and his or her family) of the occupants of the principal dwelling;

8.

Swimming pool, private, for use by the occupant and his guests;

9.

Off-street motor car parking areas, and loading and unloading facilities;

10.

Signs (other than advertising signs) as permitted and regulated in each district incorporated in this title;

11.

Carports;

12.

Public utility facilities, telephone, electric, gas, water and sewer lines, their supports and incidental equipment;

13.

See Section 17.34.050-G for yard set backs for residential accessory buildings.

(Ord. 2002-3 § 2, 2002: Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Acreage" means any tract or parcel of land having an area of one acre or more which has not heretofore been subdivided or platted.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Airport" means any area of land which is used or intended for use for the landing and taking off of aircraft, and any appurtenant areas which are used or intended for use for airport buildings or other airport facilities located thereon.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Alley" means a public way, not more than 9 meters (thirty (30) feet) wide, which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Structural alteration" means any change of the supporting members of building or structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Animal hospital" means any building or portion thereof designed or used for the care, observation or treatment of domestic animals.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Apartment" means a room or suite of rooms in a multiple-family structure, which is arranged, designed, used or intended to be used as a single housekeeping unit. Complete kitchen facilities, permanently installed, must be included for each apartment.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

For "apartment hotel" see "hotel, apartment."

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

For "apartment house" see "dwelling, multiple-family."

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Auditorium" means a room, hall or building made a part of a church, theater, school, recreation building or other building assigned to the gathering of people as an audience, to hear lectures, plays and other presentations.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Automobile laundry" means a building or portion thereof where automobiles are washed with the use of a chain conveyor and blower or steam-cleaning device.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Major automobile repair" means any repair, replacement, or rebuilding of vehicle or major chassis, body, or engine components not specifically classified as minor automobile repair, as defined in Section 17.04.075.

(Ord. 442 § 1(A) (part), 1973: Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Minor automobile repair" means incidental repairs, replacement of minor or subordinate parts not requiring disassembly or reshaping of any major chassis, body, or engine components, minor painting or repainting incidental to permitted repairs, and/or routine minor servicing of vehicles including adjustments, motor-tuning, wheel changing, puncture sealing, and minor maintenance of electrical, cooling, or brake systems.

(Ord. 442 § 1(A) (part), 1973: Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Automobile service station" means a place where gasoline or other motor fuel for motor vehicles is stored in underground tanks and is offered for retail sale or distribution to the public as a primary or major activity of a business enterprise, with or without ancillary minor or secondary activities such as lubrication, nonmechanized washing, the sale and/or installation of accessories or attachments, minor automobile repairs as defined in Section 17.04.075 and similar services routinely furnished by the majority of other automobile filling stations in the city; provided, however, that all such ancillary, minor or secondary activities must be conducted, if at all, in building areas equipped with facilities which will prevent the escape of noxious fumes or noise incompatible with the normal uses of the other zoning lots in the vicinity.

(Ord. 442 § 1(A) (part), 1973: Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Automobile and trailer sale area" means an open area, other than a street, used for the display or sale of new or used automobiles or trailers, and where no repair work is done except for minor incidental repair of automobiles or trailers to be displayed and sold on the premises.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Automobile wrecking yard" means any place where three or more motor vehicles not in running condition or parts thereof, are stored in the open and are not being restored to operation, or any land, building or structure used for wrecking or storing of such motor vehicles or parts thereof, and including the commercial salvaging of any other goods, articles or merchandise.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Awning" means a rooflike cover, temporary in nature, which projects from the wall of a building or overhangs the public way.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Banks and financial institutions" means commercial banks, currency exchanges, savings and loan associations, brokerage offices and other similar financial institutions, but not including loan offices, finance companies and pawnshops.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Basement" means a story partly or wholly underground. Where more than one-half of its height is above the established curb level or above the average level of the adjoining ground where the curb level has not been established, a basement shall be counted as a story for purposes of height measurement.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Billboard" means a flat surface (as of a panel, wall, or fence) on which notices are posted; a large panel designed to carry outdoor advertising and mounted on a building or framework near a road. This definition does not include bulletin boards used to announce church services or to display court or other public office notices, or signs offering the sale or lease of the premises on which the sign is located.

(Ord. 529 § 1(1), 1975; Ord, 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Block" means a tract of land bounded by streets or, in lieu of a street or streets, by public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights-of-way, bulkhead lines or shorelines of waterways, or corporate boundary lines of municipalities.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Boardinghouse" means a building other than a hotel or restaurant where meals are provided for compensation to three, but not more than twelve, persons who are not members of the keeper's family.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Borrow pit" means any place of premises where dirt, soil, sand, gravel or other material is removed by excavation or otherwise, below the grade of surrounding land, for any purpose other than that necessary and incidental to grading or to building construction or operation on the premises.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Buildable area" means the space remaining on a zoning lot after the minimum open space requirements have been complied with.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Building" means any structure with substantial walls and roof securely affixed to the land and entirely separated on all sides from any other structure by space or by walls in which there are no communicating doors, windows or openings; and which is designed or intended for the shelter, enclosure or protection of persons, animals or chattels.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

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

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Detached building" means a building surrounded by open space on the same zoning lot.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Building height" means the vertical distance measured from the sidewalk level or its equivalent established grade opposite the middle of the front of the building to the highest elevation of the roof in the case of a slant or flat roof; to the deck line of a mansard roof; and to the mean height level between eaves and ridge of a gable, hip or gambrel roof; provided, that where buildings are set back from the street line, the height of the building may be measured from the average elevation of the finished lot grade at the front of the building.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Building line" means the line nearest the front of and across a zoning lot, establishing the minimum open space to be provided between the front line of a building or structure and the street right-of-way line.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Nonconforming building" means any building which does not conform to the regulations in this title prescribing the maximum floor area ratio, required yards, coverage, height and setbacks, minimum required spacing between buildings on a single lot, and minimum required usable open space for the district in which such building is located.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Principal building" means a nonaccessory building in which the principal use of the zoning lot on which it is located is conducted.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Building setback line" means a line parallel to the street line at a distance from it, regulated by the front yard requirements set forth in this title.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Temporary building" means any building not designed to be permanently located in this place where it is or where it is intended to be placed or affixed.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Bulk" indicates the size and setbacks of buildings or structures and location of same with respect to one another and includes the following:

A.

Size and height of buildings;

B.

Location of exterior walls at all levels in relation to lot lines, streets, or other buildings;

C.

Gross floor area of buildings in relation to lot area (floor area ratio);

D.

All open spaces allocated to the building;

E.

Amount of lot area per dwelling unit;

F.

Required parking areas.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Business and professional office" means the office of a person practicing a profession, or any office used primarily for business or professional correspondence, research, editing, or administration.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Bus lots" means any lot or land area used for the storage or layover of passenger buses or motor coaches.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Carport" means a roofed-over area attached to the principal building for vehicle storage, which may be open on three sides.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Cellar" means a story having more than one-half of its height below the curb level or below the highest level of the adjoining ground. A cellar shall not be counted as a story for the purpose of height measurement.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Medical or dental clinic" means a building or portion thereof, the principal use of which is for offices of three or more licensed doctors engaged in a health care profession for human beings.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Private club or lodge" means a nonprofit association of persons who are bona fide members paying dues, which owns, hires or leases a building or portion thereof, the use of such premises being restricted to members and their guests.

It is permissible to serve food and meals on such premises; provided, that adequate dining room space and kitchen facilities are available. The sale of alcoholic beverages to the members and their guests shall be allowed in conjunction with the operation of a dining room for the purpose of serving food and means, though such beverages may be served in a separate room or rooms; and provided, that such sale of alcoholic beverages is in compliance with the applicable federal, state and county laws and city ordinances.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Common open space" means that land area within a subdivision, planned development or zoning lot which is not used to satisfy the requirements of this title for yards, streets, driveways, off-street parking or other required open areas serving individual uses or buildings, and which is provided for the use of the general public in the case of common open space dedicated to the public; or in the case of private common open space which is only for the use of all the occupants of the subdivision, planned development or zoning lot.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Outer court" means an open, unoccupied space opening onto a street, alley or yard.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Curb level" means the level of the established curb in front of the building measured at the center of such front. Where a building faces on more than one street, the curb level is the average of the levels of the curbs at the center of the front of each street. Where no curb elevation has been established, the mean level of the land immediately adjacent to the building shall be considered the curb level.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Decibel" means a unit of measurement of the intensity (loudness) of sound. Sound level meters which are employed to measure the intensity of sound are calibrated in decibels.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"District" means the area into which the city has been divided for which uniform regulations governing the use, size and intensity of land and buildings, and open space about the buildings are established.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Dwelling" means a building or portion thereof, but not including a house trailer or mobile home, designed or used exclusively for residential occupancy, including one-family dwelling units, two-family dwelling units, and multiple-family dwelling units, but not including hotels, motels, boarding or lodginghouses.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Attached dwelling" means a dwelling which is joined to another dwelling at one or more sides by a party wall or walls.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Detached dwelling" means a dwelling which is entirely surrounded by open space and is not connected to any other dwelling unit by roof, walls or porches on the same lot.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Dwelling group" means two or more one-family, two-family or multiple-family dwellings or boarding or lodginghouses, located on one zoning lot, but not including tourist courts or motels.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Multiple-family dwelling" means a building or portion thereof designed or altered for occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"One-family dwelling" means a dwelling unit designed exclusively for use and occupancy by one family.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Row (party wall) dwelling" means a row of two or more attached one-family, party-wall dwellings, not more than two and one-half stories in height nor more than two rooms in depth, measured from the building line.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Two-family dwelling" means a building designed or altered to provide dwelling units for occupancy by two families.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Dwelling unit" means one or more rooms in a residential structure which are arranged, designed, used or intended to be used by one family, plus lodgers, for living or sleeping purposes, and which include complete kitchen facilities permanently installed.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part) 1968.)

"Educational institution" means public, parochial, charitable or nonprofit school, junior college, college or university, other than trade or business schools, including instructional and recreational uses, with or without living quarters, dining rooms, restaurants, heating plants, and other incidental facilities for students, teachers and employees.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Efficiency unit" means a dwelling unit consisting of one principal room for living, sleeping and eating, plus facilities for cooking and a complete bath and toilet facilities.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Family" means one or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption, or a group of not more than three persons (excluding servants) who need not be related by blood, marriage or adoption, living together and maintaining a common household, but not including sororities, fraternities or other similar organizations.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Gross floor area (for the purpose of determining floor area ratio)" means the sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of such building or buildings, measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls or from the centerline of party walls separating two buildings. In particular, gross floor area includes:

A.

Basement space if at least one-half of the basement story height is above the established curb or ground level;

B.

Elevator shafts and stairwells at each floor;

C.

Floor space used for mechanical equipment where the structural headroom exceeds 225 centimeters (seven and one-half feet); except equipment, open or enclosed, located on the roof, i.e., bulkheads, water tanks, and cooling towers;

D.

Attic floor space where the structural headroom exceeds 225 centimeters (seven and one-half feet);

E.

Interior balconies and mezzanines;

F.

Enclosed porches, but not terraces and breezeways;

G.

Accessory buildings.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Gross floor area (for the purpose of determining requirements for off-street parking and off-street loading)" means the floor area which is the sum of the gross horizontal area of the several floors of the building or portion thereof, devoted to such use, including accessory storage areas located within selling or working space, such as counters, racks, work closets, and any basement floor area devoted to retailing activities, to the production or processing of goods, or to business or professional offices.

Off-street parking spaces for floor areas used solely for storage shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of Section 17.44.050(G) which refers to parking spaces required for warehouses and storage buildings. The following areas shall be considered storage for the purpose of measurement of off-street parking:

A.

Floor area devoted to off-street parking or loading facilities including aisles, ramps and maneuvering space;

B.

Basement floor area other than area devoted to retailing or service activities, or the production or processing of goods or to business or professional offices.

(Ord. 2001-8 § 1, 2001; Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Floor area ratio (F.A.R.)" means the total floor area of the building or buildings on the zoning lot divided by the area of such zoning lot, or in the case of a planned development by the net site area.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Frequency" means the number of oscillations per second in a sound wave measuring the pitch of the resulting sound.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Frontage" means all the property fronting on one side of a street between the nearest intersecting streets or between a street and a right-of-way, waterways or other similar barrier.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Bus garage" means any building used or intended to be used for the storage of three or more passenger motor buses, or motor coaches used in public transportation, including school buses.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Bus or truck garage" means a building which is used or intended to be used for the storage of motor trucks, truck trailers, tractors and commercial vehicles exceeding 1361 kilograms (one and one-half tons) capacity.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Private garage" means any accessory building or an accessory portion of the principal building which is intended for and used to store the private passenger vehicles of the family or families resident on the premises, and in which no business, service or industry connected directly or indirectly with the automotive vehicles is carried on; provided, that not more than one-half of the space may be rented for the private vehicles of persons not resident on the premises, except that all the space in a garage of one or two-car capacity may be so rented. Such a garage shall not be used for more than two commercial vehicles and the load capacity of such vehicles shall not exceed 2270 kilograms (two and one-half tons).

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Public garage" means a building other than a private garage, used for the care, incidental servicing and sale of automobile supplies, or where motor vehicles are parked or stored for remuneration, hire or sale within the structure, but not including trucks, tractors, truck trailers and commercial vehicles exceeding 1361 kilograms (one and one-half tons) capacity.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Golf course" means public, semipublic, or private grounds over which the game of golf is played, including accessory buildings and land uses incidental thereto, and consisting of at least 24 hectares (sixty acres) for each standard nine-hole course, and 10 hectares (twenty-five acres) for each nine-hole "par 3" course.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Street grade" means the elevation of the established street in front of the building measured at the center of such front. Where no street grade has been established, the city engineer shall establish such street grade or its equivalent for the purposes of this title.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Guesthouse" means living quarters within a detached accessory building located on the same premises with the principal building for use by temporary guests of the occupants of the premises. Such quarters shall have no kitchen facilities nor be rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Home occupation" means any occupation or profession carried on by a member of a family, residing on the premises, in connection with which there is used no sign other than that followed by the sign regulations for the district in which such home occupation is located; provided, that no commodity is sold upon the premises except such as may be produced on the premises by members of the immediate family; provided, that no person is employed other than a member of the immediate family residing on the premises; and provided, that no mechanical equipment is used except such as is normally used for domestic, hobby or household purposes. Home occupations include the use of premises by a physician, surgeon, dentist, lawyer, clergyman or other professional person for consultation or emergency treatment, but not for the general practice of his profession.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Horse" means any animal of the biological family Equidae and/or the genus Equus, whether male or female, over twelve months of age. Offspring of such animals shall also be considered horses for all purposes in this title except for the number of such animals allowed on any zoning lot.

(Ord. 580 § 1 (part), 1969: Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Hospital or sanitarium" means an institution devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the diagnosis, treatment or care for not less than twenty-four hours in any week of three or more nonrelated individuals suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity or other abnormal physical conditions.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Apartment hotel" means a building containing dwelling units or individual guestrooms, the majority of which are for permanent guests.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Hotel, motel, inn or auto court" means an establishment containing lodging accommodations designed for use by transients, travelers or temporary guests. Facilities provided may include maid service, laundering of linen used on the premises, telephone and secretarial or desk service, meeting rooms, restaurants, including the sale of alcoholic beverages.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Junkyard" means an open area where waste, scrap metal, paper, rags or similar materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled, including auto and building wrecking yards, but excluding similar uses taking place entirely within a completely enclosed building.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Commercial kennel" means any lot or premises or portion thereof on which more than four dogs, cats and other household domestic animals over four months of age, are kept or on which more than two such animals are boarded for compensation or kept for sale.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Commercial laboratory" means a place devoted to experimental study such as testing and analyzing. Manufacturing, assembly or packaging of products is not included within this definition.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Off-street loading and unloading space or berth" means an open, hard-surfaced area of land, other than a street or a public way, the principal use of which is for the standing, loading and unloading of motor vehicles, tractors and trailers, to avoid undue interference with public streets and alleys. Such space shall not be less than 300 centimeters (ten feet) in width, 7½ meters (twenty-five feet) in length, and 420 centimeters (fourteen feet) in height, exclusive of access aisles and maneuvering space.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Lodging or roominghouse" means a building with not more than three (3) guestrooms where lodging is provided for compensation pursuant to previous arrangement, but not open on a daily, overnight or per meal basis to transient guests.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Lot" means a parcel of land legally described as a distinct portion or piece of land of record.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Lot area" means the area of a horizontal plane bounded by vertical planes containing the front, side and rear lot lines.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Buildable lot" means a lot in the city where a linen must be recorded with the Cook County recorder of deeds before a building permit for a structure on said lot will be issued.

The mayor and city clerk are authorized to sign, on behalf of the city, such linen without city council action or approval if there is no subdivision or resubdivision involved which would require city council action.

(Ord. 993 § 1, 1988.)

"Corner lot" means a lot situated at the junction of and abutting on two or more intersecting streets; or a lot at the point of deflection in alignment of a single street, the interior angle of which is 135 degrees or less.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Lot coverage" means the area of a zoning lot occupied by the principal building or buildings and accessory buildings.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Lot depth" means the mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines of a lot measured within the lot boundaries.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Lot frontage" means the front of a lot shall be that boundary of a lot along a public street; for a corner lot the owner may elect either street lines as the front lot line.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Interior lot" means a lot other than a corner or reversed corner lot.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Lot line" means a property boundary line of any lot held in single or separate ownership, except that where any portion of the lot extends to the abutting street or alley, the lot line shall be deemed to be the street or alley line.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Front lot line" means the front property line of a zoning lot.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Interior lot line" means a side lot one common with another lot.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Rear lot line" means the lot line or lot lines most nearly parallel to and most remote from the front lot lines.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Side lot line" means lot lines other than front or rear lot lines.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Lot of record" means an area of land designated as a lot on a plat of subdivision recorded or registered pursuant to statute.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Reversed corner lot" means a corner lot, the rear of which abuts upon the side of another lot, whether across an alley or not.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Through lot" means a lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets, and which is not a corner lot. On a through lot both street lines shall be deemed front lot lines.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Lot width" means the mean horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured within the boundaries, or the minimum distance between the side lot lines within the buildable area.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Manufacture" means the production, making or processing of products or commodities for general consumption of the public or for sale to specialized institutions or organizations. Also included is the subassembly, fabrication, or processing of parts or components for use in other products or commodities.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Marquee or canopy" means a rooflike structure of a permanent nature which projects from the wall of a building and may overhang the public way, and is designed and intended to protect pedestrians from adverse weather conditions.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Mobile home" means any trailer, as defined in this chapter, used for residential purposes, but not including sports or camping trailers.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Mobile home camp or park" means any premises occupied or designed to accommodate one or more families living in a mobile home.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

For "motel" see "hotel."

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Motor freight terminal" means a building in which freight, brought to said building by motor truck, is assembled and sorted for routing in intrastate and interstate shipment by motor truck.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Nameplate" means a sign indicating the name and address of a building or the name of an occupant thereof and the practice of a permitted occupation therein.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Net site area" means the area of a zoning lot, parcel or tract, excluding boundary rights-of-way.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Nonconforming use" means any building, structure or land lawfully occupied by a use or lawfully established at the time of the adoption of the ordinance codified in this title or amendments thereto with the use regulations of the title.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Noxious matter" means material which is capable of causing injury to living organisms by chemical reaction or is capable of causing detrimental effects upon the psychological, social or economic well-being of human beings.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Child care nursery" means an establishment for the part-time care of five or more children of pre-elementary school age in addition to the members of the family residing therein.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Nursing home or rest home" means a commercial establishment for the care of children or the aged or infirm, a place of rest for those suffering bodily disorders, but not including facilities for the treatment of sickness or injuries or for surgical care.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Occupancy certificate" means a certificate issued by the building commissioner stating that the occupancy and use of land or a building or structure referred to therein complies with the provisions of this title.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Octave band" means a means of dividing the range of sound frequencies into octaves in order to classify sound according to pitch.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Octave band filter" means an electrical frequency analyzer, designed according to standards formulated by the American Standards Association and used in conjunction with a sound level meter to take measurements in specific octave intervals. (American Standard for Sound Level Meters, A.S.A. No. 244.3-1944).

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Open sales lot" means a lot or parcel of land used or occupied for the purpose of buying, selling, or trading of any goods and commodities and including the storage of same prior to sale or exchange.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Ordinance," unless otherwise indicated, means the Palos Hills Zoning Ordinance.

(Ord. 391 § 1(A), 1972; Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Paddock" means a fenced or otherwise enclosed area designed, arranged, used, or intended to be used for the confinement, exercise, or keeping of one or more horses.

(Ord. 580 § 1 (part), 1969: Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Private parking area" means an open, hard-surfaced area, other than a street or public way, designed, arranged and made available for the storage of private passenger vehicles only of occupants of the building or buildings for which the parking area is developed and is accessory.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Public parking area" means an open, hard-surfaced area, other than a street or public way, intended to be used for the storage of passenger automobiles and commercial vehicles under 1361 kilograms (1½ tons) capacity, and available to the public, whether for compensation, free or as an accommodation to clients or customers.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Automobile parking space" means space within a public or private parking area of not less than 16.2 square meters (180 square feet) (270 centimeters (9 feet) by 6 meters (20 feet)) exclusive of access drives, or aisles, ramps, columns or office and work areas, for the storage of one passenger automobile or commercial vehicle under 2722 kilograms (three (3) tons) capacity.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Particulate matter" means material which is suspended in or discharged into the atmosphere in finely divided form as a liquid or solid at atmospheric pressure and temperature.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Performance standard" means a criterion to control noise, odor, smoke, toxic or noxious matter, fire and explosive hazards, or glare or heat generated by or inherent in uses of land or buildings.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Plan commission" means the commission of the city as constituted by ordinance.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Planned unit development" means a parcel or tract of land, initially under single ownership or control, which contains two or more principal buildings and one or more principal uses, planned and constructed as a unified development where specific regulations of a given zoning district are modified through the issuance of a special use permit.

(Ord. 391 § 1(B), 1972; Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)

"Porch" means a roofed-over structure, projecting out from the wall or walls of a main structure and commonly open to the weather in part.

(Ord. 280 § 3.02 (part), 1968.)