9.1. Accessory building and use. Subordinate building or a portion of the main building, the use of which is incidental to that of the main building or land not used for a place of habitation or a living room, kitchen, dining room, parlor, bedroom or library. An accessory use is one which is incidental to the main use of the premises.

9.2. Advertising signs. Pertaining only to the lease, sale or use of a lot or building on which placed and not exceeding a total area of 12 square feet, provided that on a lot occupied by a dwelling, the total area of all signs shall not be more than two square feet for each dwelling unit. All other signs are prohibited.

9.3. Board. The board of adjustment established in part 7.

9.4. Building. Any structure built for use of persons or animals. "Structure" is anything built that requires a permanent location; however, neither shall be construed to include trailers.

9.5. City. City of Rayne. Parish is Acadia Parish.

9.6. Commission. Planning and zoning commission of the City of Rayne.

9.7. Council. City council of Rayne.

9.8. District. A part of the city wherein regulations of this ordinance are uniform.

9.9. Dwelling. A building used entirely for residential purposes and shall not be construed to include trailers. A "single-family dwelling" is a building that contains only one living unit; a "two-family dwelling" is a building that contains only two living unit[s]; and a "multiple dwelling" is a building that contains more than two living units.

9.10. Family. One or more persons occupying a living unit as an individual housekeeping organization as distinguished from a group occupying a boardinghouse, lodginghouse or hotels.

9.11. General terms. The word "person" includes a firm, association, organization, partnership, trust, company or corporation, as well as individuals. The present tense includes the future. The singular includes the plural and the plural the singular. The word "shall" is mandatory, the word "may" is permissive. The words "used" or "occupied" include the words "intended," "designed," or "arranged" to be used or occupied.

9.12. Home occupations. Customarily home occupations such as dressmaking or tailoring, office of a physician or other professional person incidental to a permitted use; provided such occupations are conducted in the main building and by persons resident in said building and provided further that persons conducting such occupations may employ no one outside the family.

9.13. Living unit. The rooms occupied by a family. The living unit must include a kitchen.

9.14. Lot. A plat or parcel of land adequate for occupancy by a use herein permitted, providing the yards, area and off-street parking herein required, and fronting directly upon a street.

9.15. Lot, corner. A lot which abuts on two or more streets, and/or roads, at their intersection, or upon a curved street, provided that the two sides of the lot, or the tangents to the curve of the street line at its starting points at or within the side line of the lot intersect to form an interior angle of not more than 135 degrees.

9.16. Lot depth. The distance between front and rear lot lines; if two opposite sides of said lot are not parallel, the depth shall be deemed to be the mean distance between the front and rear lot lines.

9.17. Lot interior. A lot which is not a corner lot.

9.18. Lot line, front. The front lot line of an interior lot is the line separating the lot from the street or easement of principal access. The front lot line of a corner lot shall be the lot line with the least frontage.

9.19. Lot line, rear. The rear lot line is the boundary opposite and more or less parallel to the front lot line. The rear lot line of an irregular or triangular lot shall be, for the purposes of this ordinance, a line not less than ten feet long, lying wholly within the lot and parallel to and at the farthest distance from the front line.

9.20. Lot line, side. A side lot line is any lot boundary line not a front lot line or a rear lot line. A side lot line separating a lot from the street line is an exterior side lot line. Any other side lot line is an interior side lot line.

9.21. Lot, through. In general, this is bad planning, but some do exist; therefore, a through lot is defined as one whose depth extends between two more or less parallel streets and has frontage on each street.

9.22. Lot, width. The width of the lot measured at right angles to the mean depth of said lot.

9.23. Office building. A building designed for or used as the offices of professional, commercial, industrial, religious, public or semipublic persons or organizations.

9.24. Parking space. One automobile parking space shall be an area not less than eight feet by 20 feet and the access to the parking space for a public street or alley shall be provided in addition to the space necessary for parking.

9.25. Planning commission. It shall act as a zoning commission at such time as this ordinance shall go into effect, as provided for under R.S. 33:4726.

9.26. Street line or right-of-way. The dividing line between a lot, its property line or lines, and a public right-of-way, a public street, road or highway; or a private street, road or highway, over which two or more abutting owners have an easement or right-of-way.

9.27. Trailer. A vehicle equipped for use as a dwelling and designed to be hauled along a highway.

9.28. Yard. A required open space unoccupied and unobstructed by any structure or portion of a structure from 30 inches above the general ground level of the graded lot upward; provided however, that fences and walls may be permitted in any yard subject to height limitation as indicated herein.

9.29. Yard, front. A yard extending between side lot lines across the front of a lot. In the case of through lots, unless the prevailing front yard pattern on adjoining lots indicates otherwise, front yards shall be provided on all frontages. Where one of the front yards that would normally be required on a through lot is not in keeping with the prevailing yard pattern, the administrative officer may waive the requirement for the normal front yard and substitute therefor a special yard requirement which shall not exceed the average of the yards provided on adjacent lots.

9.30. Yard, front depth. Depth of required front yards shall be measured at right angles to a straight line joining the foremost points of the side lot lines. The foremost points of the side lot line, in the case of rounded property corners at street intersections, shall be assumed to be the point at which the side and front lot lines would have met without such rounding. Front and rear front yard lines shall be parallel.

9.31. Yard, side. A yard extending from the rear line of the required front yard to the rear lot line. In case of through lots, side yards shall extend from the rear line of the front yards required. In the case of corner lots with normal frontage there will be only one side yard adjacent to the interior lot. In the case of corner lots with reversed frontage, the yards remaining after the full front yard has been established shall be considered to be the side yard.

9.32. Yard, side width. Width of required side yards shall be measured at right angles to a straight line joining the ends of front and rear lot lines on the same side of the lot. The inner side yard line of the required side yard shall be parallel to the straight line so established.

9.33. Yard, rear depth. Depth of required rear yards shall be measured at right angles to a straight line joining the rearmost points of the side lot lines. The forward rear yard line of a required rear yard shall be parallel to the straight line so established.

9.34 Nonconforming use. A land lawfully used, and/or structure legally existing and/or used at the time of adoption of the ordinance codified herein, or any amendment thereto, which does not conform with the height, lot area, yard requirements, or use regulations of the district in which it is located.

(Ord. No. 1099, 5-8-17)