A second dwelling unit either within or added to an existing single-family detached dwelling, or in a separate accessory structure on the same lot as the main dwelling, for use as a complete, independent living facility that contains provisions for cooking, eating, sanitation, and sleeping. Such a dwelling is an accessory use to the main dwelling.

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

A use of land or of a building or portion thereof customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use of the land or building and located on the same lot with the principal use.

A measure of developable land area after excluding existing and dedicated rights-of-way for streets; access easements; utility easements; landscaping, buffers, and open space requirements; stormwater and flood control; and drainage easements.

A facility that provides supervision, therapy, and social development activities for impaired adults, licensed according to regulations by DHEC.

A service roadway providing a secondary means of public access to abutting property and not intended for general traffic circulation.

Any individual or source, licensed, registered, decreed or otherwise acknowledged as capable of providing expert information and reference in horticultural science and/or landscape design and maintenance.

(NAICS 8111) Shops that provide a wide range of electrical and mechanical repair and maintenance services for automotive vehicles.

Premises used primarily for the sale or dispensing of liquor by the drink for on-site consumption and where food may be available for consumption on the premises as accessory to the principal use.

An owner-occupied house or portion thereof, where short-term (no more than a week at a time) lodging rooms and meals are provided. No more than four guest rooms can be available for accommodations and breakfast service in such an establishment at any one time.

Any hill or slope which represents a change of elevation of at least two feet at a slope of between 25% and 50% and which is covered with an appropriate stabilizing vegetation.

Same as "rooming and boardinghouses."

Open spaces, landscaped areas, fences, walls, berms, or any combination thereof used to physically separate or screen one use or property from another so as to visually shield or block noise, lights, or other nuisances.

A strip of land, improved by landscaping or fences, or both, designed to mitigate the extent of higher intensity land uses on neighboring lower intensity uses.

Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls and intended for the shelter, housing, or enclosure of any individual, animal, process, equipment, goods, or materials of any kind.

Any use that substantially differs from the previous use of a building or land.

Any agency, institution, center, or other place, however styled and whether operated under public auspices, as a private business, or by an established religious denomination, in which are received for temporary custodial care apart from their parents, part of the day or all of the day or night, and upon any number of successive days, one or more children not related to the persons providing such temporary custodial care. Cross-reference "family child-care home."

Any building or structure, or group of buildings or structures, that by design and construction are primarily intended for conducting organized religious services and associated accessory uses.

See "club, lodge. . ."

An incorporated or unincorporated association for civic, social, cultural, religious, literary, political, or like activities, operated for the benefit of its members and not open to the general public.

A use permitted in a particular zoning district upon showing that such use in a specified location will comply with all the conditions and standards for the location or operation of the use as specified in the Zoning Ordinance and authorized by the approving agency.

(NAICS 44512) Any retail establishment offering for sale a limited line of groceries and household items intended for the convenience of the neighborhood. (NAICS 44711) A convenience store with a gas station.

See "lot, corner."

The opening along the curbline at which point vehicles may enter or leave the roadway.

Parking or storage lot pavement curbing usually constructed of stone or unit masonry and designed to control surface drainage and serve as a barrier to vehicular traffic.

Any lot which has been developed with buildings or other improvements, or for which development approval, such as a final plat approval, a zoning permit, or a certificate of occupancy, had been issued before the effective date of this chapter.

Any unenclosed area used for the display of merchandise.

A part, zone, or geographic area within which the provisions and regulations of this chapter apply uniformly to each class or kind of structure or land.

(See NAICS Code 722410) Establishment primarily engaged in retail sale of alcoholic drinks for consumption on premises. Sale of food may account for a substantial portion of receipts.

Any eating or drinking establishment which, by its structural design, site characteristics, or manner of food service encourages consumption of food or beverages in automobiles on the premises or upon public streets adjacent thereto.

A paved or unpaved area used for ingress or egress of vehicles that allows access from a street to a building, lot, structure, or facility, and that provides access to no more than two parcels of land. Access to multiple buildings or parcels within group developments (refer to Article II of Part 10) is excluded from the two-parcel restriction.

A structure or portion thereof that is used exclusively for human habitation.

One or more rooms, designed, occupied, or intended for occupancy as a separate living quarter, with cooking, sleeping, and sanitary facilities provided within the dwelling unit for the exclusive use of a single family maintaining a household.

A building containing four or more dwelling units, including units that are located one over the other. A multifamily dwelling unit may consist of a building constructed on-site according to the provisions of the Southern Standard Building Code or may consist of certified modular building units as further defined in S.C. Code of Laws Section 23-43-130. Mobile homes and manufactured homes are subject to other definitions contained in this Part 2.

A building containing not more than one dwelling unit, not physically attached to any other principal structure, and specifically excluding mobile homes. A single-family dwelling unit may consist of a building constructed on-site according to the provisions of the Southern Standard Building Code or may consist of a certified modular building unit as further defined in S.C. Code § 23-43-130. Mobile homes and manufactured homes are subject to other definitions contained in this Part 2.

A building on a single lot containing two dwelling units, each of which is totally separated from the other by an unpierced wall extending from ground to roof or an unpierced ceiling and floor extending from exterior wall to exterior wall, except for a common stairwell exterior to both dwelling units. This two family detached dwelling is not physically attached to any other principal structure. A two-family dwelling unit may consist of a building constructed on-site according to the provisions of the Southern Standard Building Code or may consist of certified modular building units as further defined in S.C. Code § 23-43-130. Mobile homes and manufactured homes are subject to other definitions contained in this Part 2.

A right-of-way granted, but not dedicated, for limited use of private land for a public or quasi-public purpose and within which the owner of the property shall not erect any permanent structures that restrict access, including fences and gates. Access easements that provide vehicular access to no more than two parcels of land, or access easements to multiple parcel group developments, shall be classified as driveways for the purpose of this chapter. Access easements that provide vehicular access to more than two parcels of land shall be classified as streets.

An increase in the size of an existing structure or use, including physical size of the property, building, parking, and other improvements.

One or more persons occupying a single dwelling unit, provided that unless all members are related by blood or marriage, no such family shall contain over three persons, but further provided that domestic servants or required medical personnel employed on the premises may be housed within the single dwelling unit without being counted as a family or families.

A registered family child-care home provides care for up to six children at any given time within the home of the child-care provider. A registration or license is required with the South Carolina Department of Social Services if a person provides care to more than one unrelated family of children on a regular basis (more than four hours a day or more than two days a week). Cross-reference "child day-care center."

An artificially constructed barrier of any material or combination of materials erected to enclose, screen, or separate areas.

The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a building from the exterior face of exterior walls, or from the center line of a wall separating two buildings, but excluding any space where the floor-to-ceiling height is less than six feet.

The unit of illumination when the foot is the unit of length.

See "club, lodge. . ."

See "sign, freestanding."

A deck, building, or parking structure, or part thereof, used, or intended to be used for the parking and storage of vehicles.

Any stripping, cutting, filling, or stockpiling of earth or land, including the land in its cut or filled condition, to create new grades.

The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a building or structure from the exterior face of exterior walls, or from the center line of a wall separating two buildings, but excluding any space where the floor-to-ceiling height is less than six feet.

Any plant material which serves to prevent soil erosion by covering large areas of ground, and which does not grow beyond 12 inches in height.

A nonprofit or for-profit boarding home for the sheltered care of four or more persons with special needs, which, in addition to providing food and shelter, may also provide some combination of personal care, social or counseling services, and transportation, unless otherwise specified with another definition in this chapter.

A single lot of record upon which is erected more than one building containing dwelling units, and all the structures thereon; or a single lot upon which is erected a single structure designed to contain more than four dwelling units on the first floor level thereof or designed to contain more than eight dwelling units throughout; except that high rise apartments are not defined as group housing developments.

An occupation, profession, or trade customarily, and commonly, carried out by an occupant in a dwelling unit as a secondary use which is clearly incidental and subordinate to the residential character of the dwelling unit.

(See NAICS Code 721110) A building in which lodging for pay is offered to public, with or without meals, for transient or permanent guests, including motel or tourist court containing five or more guest rooms.

Institutional uses are nonprofit and quasi-public organizations and government-owned or government-operated uses. Institutional uses include public and private schools; religious institutions; hospitals; libraries; recreational, civic, and municipal uses; and historic markers that are allowable in any zoning district under the zoning district regulations.

The number of dwelling units per acre for a residential development and the amount or degree of activity for commercial and industrial development.

Any scrap, waste, reclaimable material, or debris, whether or not stored, for sale or in the process of being dismantled, destroyed, processed, salvaged, stored, baled, disposed, or other use or disposition.

(NAICS 423930) Any use involving storage or processing of inoperable, disused, dismantled, or wrecked vehicles, equipment, or machinery or the storage or processing of scrap metal, wastepaper, rags, food processing wastes, construction wastes, industrial wastes, secondhand building materials, or other scrap, salvage, waste, or junk materials.

A commercial establishment in which dogs or domesticated animals are housed, groomed, bred, boarded, trained, or sold, all for a fee or compensation.

A designated parcel, tract, or area of land established by plat, subdivision, or as otherwise permitted by law, to be separately owned, used, developed, or built upon.

The total area within the plot lines of a lot, excluding any street right-of-way.

The front of an interior lot shall be construed to be the portion nearest the street. For the purpose of determining yard requirements on corner lots and through lots, all sides of a lot adjacent to streets shall be considered frontage and yards shall be provided upon that basis. The phrase "street frontage" will be interpreted to be the same meaning as "lot frontage."

A line of record bounding a lot that divides one lot from another lot or from a public or private street or any other public space.

The lot line opposite and most distant from the front lot line. In the case of triangular or otherwise irregularly shaped lots, a line 10 feet in length entirely within the lot, parallel to and at a maximum distance from the front lot line.

A lot defined by plat or described by metes and bounds that has been duly recorded with the Lexington County Register of Deeds.

The distance between straight lines connecting front and rear lot lines at each side of the lot, measured across the rear of the required front yard; provided, however, that width between side lot lines at their foremost points (where they intersect with the street line) shall not be less than 80% of the required lot width; in the case of lots fronting on a cul-de-sac, the width between side lot lines at their foremost points shall not be less than 20 feet.

Any lot that is bounded on two or more consecutive sides by road rights-of-way, which intersect at an angle of 135° or less.

A flag lot is a lot with a dedicated access to a public road provided to the bulk of the lot by means of a narrow corridor.

A lot other than a corner lot, with only one frontage on a street.

A through lot that is not accessible from one of the parallel or nonintersecting streets upon which it fronts.

A lot that fronts upon two parallel streets or that fronts upon two streets that do not intersect at the boundaries of the lot.

A multi-section, transportable dwelling unit 35 or more feet in length and at least 20 feet in width, designed without a permanent foundation and capable of supporting year-round occupancy, which shall be joined into one unit at the final site of occupancy. The dwelling unit must be permanently attached to the ground once moved to its site of occupancy, and all transportable features used to move the dwelling unit must be removed. This definition is purposely intended to be more restrictive than the definition of manufactured home specified in S.C. Code § 40-29-20 (9) because the intent of Town Council is to draw a more stringent distinction between manufactured housing and a mobile homes.

A lot of record providing rented parking space for three or more manufactured homes used for dwelling units, including service buildings and facilities. Manufactured home sale or storage lots for unoccupied units are not manufactured home parks.

(NAICS 493110) A building or group of buildings on a fenced, controlled access lot which contain individual locked compartments for storage of personal property.

The Mixed-Use Planned Development (MPD) District is a special purpose district. The intent is to create a planned, unified development that encourages flexibility of design and allowable uses within the district. Within the MPD, regulations adapted to unified planning and development standards are intended to accomplish the purposes of zoning, design standards, and other applicable regulations to an equivalent or higher degree than general zoning district regulations that are designed to control uncoordinated development on individual lots or tracts. MPDs are intended to promote economical and efficient land use, provide an improved level of amenities, foster a harmonious variety of uses, encourage creative design, and produce a better environment.

A structure manufactured prior to June 15, 1976 or manufactured after June 15, 1976 without certification of compliance with HUD standards pursuant to Title 40, Chapter 29 of the South Carolina Code of Laws, which is a movable or portable dwelling unit and which after placement or assembly for occupancy is not more than 20 feet in width. A mobile home is constructed to be towed on its own chassis consisting of a single transportable component with all features making it capable of year round occupancy. A mobile home may or may not be permanently attached to the ground and its transportable features may or may not be removed. The term does not include prefabricated, modular or unitized dwelling on a permanent foundation, travel trailer, camper or similar recreation unit.

See definition contained in the Town of Pine Ridge Mobile Home Park Ordinance included in this chapter by reference.

Any building of closed construction (regardless of type of construction or occupancy classification) other than a mobile or manufactured home that is constructed off-site in accordance with applicable codes and transported to the point of occupancy for installation or erection. A modular building unit shall have a certification label permanently affixed to the transportable section of the structure showing that it has been approved by the S.C. Building Codes Council as meeting Southern Standard Building Code construction standards. The Town shall accord a certified modular building unit the same status as an on-site, "stick-built" unit constructed according to the Southern Standard Building Code. A mobile home, house trailer, camping trailer, or manufactured home is not defined as a modular building.

(See NAICS Code 721110.) A building or buildings in which lodging, with or without meals, is offered to the public for consumption, including a hotel, tourist court, or inn.

See "dwelling, multifamily."

A term applied to lots, structures, uses of land or structures, and characteristics or use of land or structures which were lawful before the passage or amendment of this chapter, but which are prohibited by this chapter or which are not in compliance with the requirements of this chapter. For more details, see § 300-18.

See Part 9, § 300-82.

Designated areas located adjacent to buildings where trucks may load and unload cargo.

An area adequate for parking an automobile with room for opening doors on both sides, together with properly related access to a public street arranged so that maneuvering incidental to parking shall not be on any public street and so that an automobile may be parked or unparked therein without moving any other automobile.

Unless otherwise defined in this chapter, open space is any parcel or area of land or water essentially unimproved and set aside, dedicated, designated, or reserved for public or private use or enjoyment or for the use and enjoyment of owners, occupants, and their guests of land adjoining or neighboring such open space.

A zoning district that encompasses one or more underlying zones and that imposes additional requirements above that required by the underlying zone.

An individual, firm, association, syndicate, partnership, or corporation having sufficient proprietary interest to seek development of land.

A contiguous lot or tract of land owned and recorded as the property of the same persons or controlled by a single entity.

An area or facility intended to be used for recreation, exercise, sports, or similar activities, or an area intended to enhance the enjoyment of natural features or natural beauty, but specifically excluding commercially operated amusement parks.

Any public or private area, under or outside of a building or structure, designed and used for parking motor vehicles including parking lots, garages, private driveways, and legally designated areas of public streets.

A public or private open lot for parking motor vehicles as a principal use or as an accessory use to a commercial use.

A use permitted outright by district regulations.

Establishments primarily engaged in providing services involving the care of a person or his or her personal goods or apparel. These include the following: laundries, beauty and barber shops, shoe repair, and health clubs.

Planning Official means the Pine Ridge Town Administrator or other Town of Pine Ridge employee, consultant, or contractor designated by the Pine Ridge Town Administrator to administer assigned duties in the administration of this chapter.

A structure or use that is significant or primary rather than accessory.

A use that is not permitted in a zone district.

A meeting announced and advertised in advance and open to the public, with the public given an opportunity to talk and participate.

A dwelling.

An establishment where food and drink are prepared, served, and consumed primarily within the principal building.

Establishments engaged in selling goods or merchandise to the general public for personal or household consumption and rendering services incidental to the sale of such goods.

A strip of land acquired by reservation, dedication, forced dedication, prescription, or condemnation and intended to be occupied by a road, crosswalk, railroad, electric transmission lines, oil or gas pipeline, water line, sanitary storm sewer, and other similar uses.

Any strip of land adjacent to a public road right-of-way.

(NAICS 721310) Any dwelling, other than a hotel or motel, in which three or more persons who are not members of the owner's or operator's family are housed or lodged for compensation in rooms used or intended to be used for living and sleeping but not for cooking or eating purposes, with or without meals being provided. Any dwelling in which such accommodations are offered in four or more rooms shall be considered to be a hotel or motel.

Same as "junkyard."

A device incorporating a reflective surface that is solid, open mesh, or bar configured and is in the shape of a shallow dish, cone, horn, or cornucopia. Such device shall be used to transmit and/or receive radio or electromagnetic waves between terrestrially and/or orbitally based uses. This definition is meant to include but not be limited to what are commonly referred to as satellite earth stations, television reception only satellite dish antennas, and satellite microwave antennas.

Same as "junkyard."

For the purposes of the landscaping requirements, any structure which stands at least six feet high at its lowest point, is between 67% and 100% opaque, and is designed and constructed as a permanent improvement for the purpose of blocking view.

A method of visually shielding or obscuring one abutting or nearby structure or use from another by fencing, walls, berms, or densely planted vegetation.

The setback line is the same as the depth or width of any required yard. Note that such line defines the minimum distance between any structure and an adjacent lot boundary and is not necessarily the same as the building line, which is the distance between the actual structure and an adjacent lot boundary.

See § 300-52 for definitions and regulations.

A group of commercial establishments planned, constructed, and managed as a total entity, with customer and employee parking provided on-site, provision for goods delivery separated from customer access, aesthetic considerations and protection from the elements, and landscaping and signage in accordance with an approved plan.

Any hard-wooded perennial plant of a species which normally reaches a height between 12 inches and eight feet, and which is between 80% and 100% opaque, at maturity.

Any object, device, display, or structure, or part thereof, which is used to advertise, identify, display, direct, or attract attention to an object, person, institution, organization, business, product, service, event, or location by any means, including words, letters, figures, design, symbols, fixtures, colors, illumination, or projected images, with certain exceptions as enumerated in the Town of Pine Ridge Sign Ordinance.[1] Other definitions of signs are contained in Part 9 of this chapter.

The development plan for one or more lots on which is shown the existing and proposed conditions of the lot, including topography, vegetation, drainage, floodplains, wetlands, and waterways; landscaping and open spaces; walkways; means of ingress and egress; circulation; utility services; structures and buildings; signs and lighting; berms, buffers, and screening devices; surrounding development; and any other information that reasonably may be required in order that an informed decision can be made by the approving authority. Specific site plan requirements for each type of land development project are given in Part 10.

Or lath house. An open-sided structure used to provide shade to tender or young plants. The roofed is constructed of laths or slats with gaps spaced as wide as the slats designed to provide 50% shade.

A complete design or assembly consisting of a solar energy collector, an energy storage facility (where used), and components for the distribution of transformed energy (to the extent they cannot be used jointly with a conventional energy system). Passive solar energy systems are included in this definition.

The space between a solar energy collector and the sun that must be free of obstructions that shade the collector to an extent which precludes its cost effective operation.

A right, expressed as an easement, covenant, condition, or other property interest in any land or other instrument executed by, or on behalf of any landowner that protects the solar skyspace of an actual, proposed, or designated solar energy collector at a described location by forbidding or limiting activities or land uses that interfere with access to solar energy.

A use permitted in a particular zoning district upon showing to the Board of Appeals that such use in a specified location will comply with all the conditions and standards for the location or operation of the use as specified in this chapter and authorized by the Board of Appeals.

Any publicly or privately maintained thoroughfare (street, road, drive, avenue, circle, way, lane, boulevard, etc.) or space which has been dedicated, deeded, designed, or used for vehicular traffic that provides access to more than two parcels of land. Multiple parcel group developments are excluded from the two-parcel restriction. Streets constructed after the effective date of this chapter shall be constructed to all applicable engineering specifications. The terms street and road shall be used interchangeably.

A major highway designed to carry through traffic at higher vehicular speeds and volumes of traffic.

A street constructed to Lexington County standards.

Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground or attachment to something having location on the ground, including for purposes of this chapter buildings, mobile homes, manufactured housing, travel trailers, signs, swimming pools, fences, and antennas, but excluding landscaping features such as ornamental pools, planting boxes, bird baths, paved surfaces, walkways, driveways, recreational equipment, flagpoles, and mailboxes.

According to S.C. Code § 6-29-1110, the term "subdivision" means all divisions of a tract or parcel of land into two or more lots, building sites, or other divisions for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale, lease, or building development. Subdivision includes all division of land involving a new street or change in existing streets; resubdivision which would involve the further division or relocation of lot lines of any lot or lots within a subdivision previously made and approved or recorded according to law; or, the alteration of any street or the establishment of any new streets within any subdivision previously made and approved or recorded according to law, and includes combinations of lots of record.

The following are exempt from the definition of a subdivision and, as such, are not governed by the regulations for subdivisions of this chapter; however, exempt subdivisions are subject to applicable zoning district regulations. These exceptions are included within this definition only to require that the Planning Official be informed and have a record of the exempt subdivisions:

Any major arterial road; one of the principal routes into and through the community.

A vehicular portable structure designed as a temporary dwelling for travel or recreational use.

Those trees that are significant by their size and type and as such should be preserved wherever possible.

A required open space unoccupied and unobstructed by structures except those specifically permitted.

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

A yard situated between the rear building line and the rear lot line and extending the full width of the lot.

A yard situated between the side building line and the side lot line and extending for the front yard to the rear yard.

A specifically delineated area or district within which uniform regulations and requirements govern the use, placement, spacing, and size of land and buildings.