A subordinate building having a use customarily incident to and located on the lot occupied by the main building; or a use customarily in common with the main building or is under an extension of the main roof and designed as an integral part of the main building.

A group of not more than a total of twelve (12) amusement devices for children only, including pony rings, and their necessary accessory uses, located on a plot of ground with an area of not over three (3) acres, which area shall include provision for adequate off-street parking.

A room or suite of rooms within an apartment house arranged, intended, or designed for a place of residence of a single family or a group of individuals living together as a single housekeeping unit.

An apartment house which furnishes for the use of its tenants services ordinarily furnished by hotels, but the privileges of which are not primarily available to the public.

A building arranged, intended, or designed for more than four (4) families.

The dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles or trailers, or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled, partially dismantled, obsolete, or wrecked vehicles or their parts.

A story below the first story as defined under "story", counted as a story for height regulations if subdivided and used for dwelling purposes other than by a janitor or watchman employed on the premises.

A basement house is a single floor residence which has more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the outer wall area below the mean level of the surrounding ground.

A piece or parcel of land entirely surrounded by public highways or streets. In cases where the platting is incomplete or disconnected, the Zoning Commission shall determine the outline of the block.

A building other than a hotel, occupied as a single housekeeping unit, where lodging or meals are provided for five (5) or more persons for compensation, pursuant to previous arrangements, but not for the public or transients.

A line established in general parallel to the front street line between which line and the front street line, no part of a building shall project, except as otherwise provided.

Shall be any sewage system designed or arranged to receive sewage from more than one (1) family and/or building.

The mean level of the curb in front of the lot, or in case of a corner lot, along that abutting street where the mean curb level is the highest.

A permitted solid waste disposal area used for the controlled disposal of demolition wastes, construction materials, brush, wood wastes, soil, rock, concrete, and inert solids insoluble in water.

A building or portion thereof, designed exclusively for residential occupancy, but not hotels.

A building or portion thereof, arranged, intended, or designed for occupancy by three (3) or more families, with independent living quarters for each.

A detached building arranged, intended, or designed for occupancy by one (1) family.

A building arranged, intended, or designed for occupancy by two (2) families.

One (1) or more persons who are related by blood or marriage, living together and occupying a single housekeeping unit with single kitchen facilities, or a group of not more than five (5) persons living together by joint agreement and occupying a single housekeeping unit with single kitchen facilities, on a non-profit cost-sharing basis.

Shall include any private residence licensed by the Division of Family Services or Department of Mental Health to provide foster care to one (1) or more but less than seven (7) children who are unrelated to either foster parent by blood, marriage or adoption.

A building or portion thereof, other than a public, private, or storage garage providing storage for motor vehicles with facilities for washing, but no other services; such garage to be in lieu of private garages within a block or portion of block.

An accessory building for storage only of motor vehicles.

A building or portion thereof, designed for use for the storage, sale, hiring, care or repair of motor vehicles, which is operated for commercial purposes.

A building or portion thereof, except those defined as a private, a public, or a community garage providing storage for motor vehicles, with facilities for washing but no other services.

Shall include any home in which eight (8) or fewer unrelated mentally or physically handicapped persons reside, and may include two (2) additional persons acting as houseparents or guardians who need not be related to each other or to any of the mentally or physically handicapped persons residing in the home.

A building project consisting of three (3) or more buildings, to be constructed on a plot of ground which is not subdivided into customary streets or lots, or where the existing or contemplated street or streets or lot layouts make it impracticable to apply the requirements of this Chapter to the individual building units in such housing projects.

The vertical distance measured from the highest of the following three (3) levels:

The vertical distance from the lowest level of such yard to the highest point of any boundary wall.

A building occupied or used as a more or less temporary abiding place of individuals or groups of individuals who are lodged, with or without meals, and in which there are more than fifteen (15) sleeping rooms, and no provisions for cooking in individual rooms.

A drive located on land other than street right-of-way providing ingress and egress to and from said land.

A place where waste, discarded or salvaged metals, used plumbing fixtures, and other materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled or cleaned, and places or yards for the storage of salvaged materials and equipment from house wrecking and salvaged structural steel materials and equipment, but excluding pawn shops and establishments for the sale, purchase or storage of used cars in operable conditions, salvaged machinery, used furniture and household equipment, and the processing of used, discarded or salvaged materials as part of manufacturing operations.

A parcel of land occupied or to be occupied by one (1) building, or unit group of buildings, and the accessory buildings or uses customarily incident thereto, including such open spaces are required under this Chapter, and having its principal frontage upon a public street or a place.

Lots or portions of lots shall be deemed "back to back" when they are on opposite sides of the same part of a rear line common to both, in whole or part, and the opposite street lines on which the lots front are parallel with each other or make an angle with each other of not more than forty-five (45) degrees.

A lot abutting upon two (2) or more streets at their intersection. A corner lot shall be deemed to front on that street on which it has its least dimension, unless otherwise specified by the Board of Aldermen.

A lot whose side lines do not abut upon any street.

An interior lot having frontage on two (2) streets as distinguished from a corner lot.

The lines bounding a lot as defined herein.

The boundary between a lot and the street on which it fronts.

The boundary line which is opposite and most distant from the front street line; except that in the case of uncertainty the Zoning Commission shall determine the rear line.

Any lot boundary line not a front or rear line thereof. A side line may be a part lot line, a line bordering on an alley or place or a side street line.

The mean horizontal distance from the front street line to the rear line.

The mean horizontal distance between side lines, measured at right angles to the depth.

Pleasant Valley Road or any road or highway maintained by the State of Missouri Highway and Transportation Department.

A single-family, factory-built and factory-assembled dwelling, primarily designed for transportation, after fabrication, on the street and highways on its own wheels or on flat bed or other trailers, and arriving at the site where it is ready to be occupied as a dwelling complete and ready for occupancy, except for minor or incidental unpacking and assembly operation. The mobile home shall contain all necessary facilities for the storage, preparation and consumption of food; also a modern toilet, lavatory, bathtub or shower.

A mobile home which does not have a flush toilet, bath or shower.

A trailer park or any development, court, site or lot, parcel or tract of land designed or intended for the purpose of supplying a location or temporary accommodations for two (2) or more mobile homes and upon which any mobile home or mobile homes are parked, and shall include all buildings used, whether a charge is made for the use of the park and its facilities or not. "Mobile home park" shall not include sales office or sales lots on which unoccupied mobile homes are parked for the purpose of inspection or sale.

This Chapter shall adopt the definitions and mobile home standards established and set forth by Sections 700.010 through 700.085, Missouri Revised Statutes, inclusive, effective January 1, 1974, and as from time to time amended by the Legislature of the State of Missouri.

A use, building or yard which does not, by reason of design, use, or dimensions, conform to the regulations of the district in which it is situated. It is a legal non-conforming use if it is in existence and legal on the date when this Zoning Code or any amendment thereto become effective prohibiting such use, but which nevertheless continues unaffected by such ordinance or amendment thereto. It is an illegal non-conforming use if established after the passage of this Chapter, (September 21, 1964), or any amendment hereto and not otherwise approved as provided herein.

An open, unoccupied space other than a street or alley at least ten (10) feet in width permanently established or dedicated as the principal means of access to property abutting thereon.

A place where used parts of automobile or other equipment are collected and processed for resale.

A wall, solid fence, vegetation, etc., that obscures from view items that are otherwise inappropriate, a nuisance, unsightly, or as further required by the City Code.

A drive located on land other than street right-of-way providing ingress and egress to and from no more than two (2) single-family dwellings.

Garbage, refuse and other discarded materials including but not limited to, solid and semisolid waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial, agricultural, governmental and domestic activities but not including hazardous waste.

Any area used for the disposal of solid waste from more than one (1) residential premises, or one (1) or more commercial, industrial, manufacturing, recreational or governmental operations.

An accessory building for the keeping of horses, ponies, mules or cows, owned by occupants of the premises, and not kept for renumeration, hire, exhibition, or sale.

A stable other than a private or riding stable as defined herein.

A structure in which horses, ponies, or mules, used exclusively for pleasure riding or driving, are housed, boarded, or kept for hire; including riding track or academies.

The part of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above, or, if there be no floor above, then the space between such floor and the ceiling next above it. A "top story attic" is a half story when two (2) of its opposite sides situated in a sloping roof, and floor area of which does not exceed two-thirds (⅔) of the floor area immediately below it.

A public thoroughfare which affords principal means of access to property abutting thereon.

The dividing line between the street and the abutting property.

Any thing constructed or erected, which requires locating on the ground, or attached to something having a location on the ground; including, but not limited to, advertising signs, billboards, and poster panels, but exclusive of customary fences or boundary or retaining walls.

Any change in the supporting members of a building such as bearing walls or partitions, columns, beams or girders, or any structural change in the roof, but not including extension or enlargement.

Any automobile trailer, trailer coach, camper, house car, or any vehicle or structure so designed and constructed as to permit occupancy thereof as a temporary or permanent dwelling or sleeping quarters for one (1) or more persons, and so designed or constructed that it may be mounted on wheels or moved by the use of any device and used as a conveyance on major or State highways, country roads or City streets, propelled or drawn by its own or other motive powers.

A tract or parcel of land upon which two (2) or more tourist cabins are located.

A modification or variation of the provisions of this Chapter, as applied to a specific piece of property, as distinct from rezoning.

An open space, unoccupied except as herein after provided, on the same lot with a building, between the wall of the building nearest the street on which the lot fronts and the line of the wall extended, the side lines of the lot and the front street line of the lot. The minimum depth of the front yard shall be the distance between the nearest point of the street wall of the building and the front line of the lot, or that line produced, measured at right angles to the front line of the lot. The front line of a corner lot shall be adjacent to that street on which the lot has its least dimension, unless otherwise designated by the Board of Aldermen.

The least of the horizontal dimensions at any level of such yard at such level.

An open space, unoccupied, except as hereinafter provided, on the same lot with a building, between the rear line of a building and that line extended, the side lines of the lot and the rear line of the lot. Where no rear line exists, a line parallel to the front street line and a distance as far as possible therefrom entirely on such lot and not less than ten (10) feet long shall be deemed the rear line. The depth of the rear yard shall be the distance between the nearest point of the rear wall of the building and the rear line of the lot, or that line produced, measured at right angles to the rear line of the lot.

An open space, unoccupied, except as hereinafter provided, on the same lot with a building, situated between the building and the side line of the lot and extending through from the front yard to the rear yard.

The Director of Public Works is hereby appointed as Zoning Administrator and shall enforce the provisions of Chapters 400, 405, 410, 415 and 420.