Sheffield City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 1129

Definitions

1129.01 PURPOSE.

   It is the purpose of this chapter to define words, terms, and phrases or identify references contained in this code. (Ord. 2879. Passed 10-23-23.)

1129.02 GENERAL RULES FOR INTERPRETATION.

   The following rules shall apply for construing or interpreting the terms and provisions of this code.

   (a)   Meanings and Intent. All provisions, terms, phrases, and expressions contained in this code shall be interpreted in accordance with the general purposes set forth in Section 1101.01: Purpose and the specific purpose statements set forth throughout this code. When a specific section of this code gives a different meaning than the general definition provided in this chapter, the specific section's meaning and application of the term shall control.

   (b)   Headings, Illustrations, and Text. In the event of a conflict or inconsistency between the text of this code and any heading, caption, figure, illustration, table, or map, the text shall control. Graphics and other illustrations are provided for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as a complete and accurate description of all applicable regulations or requirements.

   (c)   Lists and Examples. Unless otherwise specifically indicated, lists of items or examples that use terms like "for example," "including," and "such as," or similar language is intended to provide examples and are not exhaustive lists of all possibilities.

   (d)   References to Other Regulations or Publications. Whenever reference is made to a code, statute, regulation, or document, it shall be construed as a reference to the most recent edition of such code, statute, regulation, or document unless otherwise specifically stated.

   (e)   Delegation of Authority. Any act authorized by this code to be carried out by a specific official of the Village may be carried out by a designee of such official.

   (f)   Technical and Nontechnical Terms. Words and phrases shall be construed according to the common and approved usage of the language, but technical words and phrases that may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in law shall be construed and understood according to such meaning.

   (g)   Public Officials and Agencies. All public officials, bodies, and agencies to which references are made are those of Sheffield Village unless otherwise indicated.

   (h)   Mandatory and Discretionary Terms. The words "shall," "must," and "will" are mandatory in nature, establishing an obligation or duty to comply with the particular provision. The words "may" and "should" are permissive in nature.

   (i)   Conjunctions. Unless the context clearly suggests the contrary, conjunctions shall be interpreted as follows:

      (1)   "And" indicates that all connected items, conditions, provisions, or events apply; and

      (2)   "Or" indicates that one or more of the connected items, conditions, provisions, or events apply.

   (j)   Tenses and Plurals. Words used in the present tense include the future tense. Words used in the singular number include the plural number, and the plural number includes the singular number unless the context of the particular usage clearly indicates otherwise. Words used in the masculine gender include the feminine gender, and vice versa.

   (k)   Terms Not Defined. If a term used in this code is not defined in this chapter, the Village Administrator shall have the authority to provide a definition based upon the definitions used in accepted sources, including but not limited to, A Planners Dictionary, A Glossary of Zoning, Development, and Planning Terms, and A Survey of Zoning Definitions, published by the American Planning Association. The Village Administrator may also rely on Webster's Dictionary or a similar source for the definition of terms.

      (Ord. 2879. Passed 10-23-23.)

1129.03 DEFINITIONS AND REFERENCES.

Abut, Adjoin, or Adjacent

The land, lot, or property adjoining the property in question along a lot line or separated only by an alley, easement, or street.

Access 

Any driveway or other point of entry and/or exit onto or from a street, road, or thoroughfare that connects to the general street system.

Accessibility Ramps

Permanent or portable ramps utilized to provide a disabled person with accessibility to a structure.

Active Recreational Facilities

Any park or recreational facility that is owned, managed, or operated by Sheffield Village, a local township, Lorain County, the State of Ohio, or a nonprofit agency. Such park or recreational facility requires grading of the land, construction of facilities, lighting, or is developed for athletic fields, tennis courts, swimming pools, skate parks, disc golf, golf courses, and other similar outdoor facilities. Such uses may include accessory retail uses that are customarily incidental recreational uses, including, but not limited to, souvenir or concession stands.

Adjudication Hearing

An adversarial hearing during which evidence is taken for the purpose of determining issues of fact and law that will be used by the applicable decision-making body to prepare the report and recommendation and, ultimately, will be used in preparing final findings and orders. This may also be referenced as a quasi-judicial hearing. Adjudication hearings take place during a public meeting of the applicable decision-making body and require special public notice and an opportunity for the public to be heard.

Administrative, Business, or Professional Offices

A building or portion of a building wherein services are performed involving predominately administrative, professional, or clerical operations that do not have any retail trade and do not maintain any stock of goods for retail sale on the premises.

Adult Arcade

Adult arcade shall mean any place to which the public is permitted or invited wherein coin-operated or slug-operated or electronically, electrically, or mechanically controlled still or motion picture machines, projectors, or other image-producing devices are regularly 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 their emphasis upon matter exhibiting or describing specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

Adult Bookstore, Adult Novelty Store, or Adult Video Store

A commercial establishment that, for any form of consideration, has as a significant or substantial portion of its stock-in-trade, derives a significant or substantial portion of its revenues from, devotes a significant or substantial portion of its interior business or advertising to, or maintains a substantial section of its sales or display space for the sale or rental of any of the following:

   •   Books, magazines, periodicals or other printed matter, or photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes or video reproductions, slides, or other visual representations, which are characterized by the depiction or description of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas"; or

   •   Instruments, devices, or paraphernalia that are designed for use in connection with "specified sexual activities."

A commercial establishment as defined in section 2907.38 of the Ohio Revised Code. An establishment may have other principal business purposes that do not involve the offering for sale, rental, or viewing of materials exhibiting or describing "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas" and still be categorized as an "adult bookstore," "adult novelty store," or "adult video store." The existence of other principal business purposes does not exempt an establishment from being categorized as an "adult bookstore," "adult novelty store," or "adult video store" so long as one of its principal business purposes is offering for sale or rental, for some form of consideration, such materials that exhibit or describe "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas."

Adult Cabaret

A nightclub, bar, juice bar, restaurant, bottle club, or similar commercial establishment, whether or not alcoholic beverages are served, that regularly features any of the following:

   •   Persons who appear in a state of nudity or semi-nudity;

   •   Live performances, which are characterized by the exposure of "specified anatomical areas" or by "specified sexual activities"; or

   •   Films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other photographic reproductions, which are characterized by the depiction or description of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas."

Adult Entertainment

The sale, rental, or exhibition, for any form of consideration, of books, films, video cassettes, magazines, periodicals, or live performances that are characterized by an emphasis on the exposure or display of specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activity.

Adult Entertainment Business

A restaurant, coffee shop, juice bar, bar, or any business establishment in which employees participate in the conduct of the business in a state of nudity.

Adult Entertainment Establishments

An adult arcade, adult bookstore, adult entertainment business, adult novelty store, adult video store, adult cabaret, adult motion picture theater, sexual device shop, adult theater, nude or seminude model studio, or sexual encounter establishment but does not include a business solely by reason of its showing, selling, or renting materials that may depict sex. An establishment in which a medical practitioner, psychologist, psychiatrist, or similar professional person licensed by the state engages in medically approved and recognized therapy, including, but not limited to, massage therapy, as regulated pursuant to section 4731.15 of the Revised Code, is not an "adult entertainment establishment.

Adult Motion Picture Theater

A commercial establishment where films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or similar photographic reproductions that are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis upon the exhibition or description of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas" are regularly shown for any form of consideration.

Adult Theater

A theater, concert hall, auditorium, or similar commercial establishment that, for any form of consideration, regularly features persons who appear in a state of nudity or semi-nudity or live performances that are characterized by their emphasis upon the exposure of "specified anatomical areas" or "specified sexual activities."

Agricultural Uses

Cultivated plats or tracts of land or raised beds containing single variety or multiple varieties of vegetables, fruits, berries, or any other edible or otherwise consumable agricultural product or produce. Agricultural uses may also include the raising of livestock.

Air-Activated Graphic

A sign, all or any part of, which is designed to be moved by the action of forced air so as to make the sign appear to be animated or otherwise have motion. See also the definition for "Sign, Balloon."

Alley

A minor, service roadway of not more than twenty (20) feet in width, providing a secondary means of public access to abutting property and not intended for general traffic circulation, but is not a public or private street as defined by this code.

Alteration

•   Any change, addition, or modification in construction, any change in the structural members of a building, such as walls or partitions, columns, beams or girders, the consummated act of which may be referred to herein as "altered" or "reconstructed;" any act or process that changes one or more of the exterior architectural features of a structure, including, but not limited to, the erection, construction, reconstruction or removal of any structure.

•   Any change of copy, sign face, color, size, height, shape, illumination, position, location, construction, or supporting structure of any sign.

Alteration of Watercourse

Any action that serves to increase or decrease the carrying capacity of a watercourse.

Alteration, Structural

Any change in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders.

Amateur Radio Antennas

A system of cables, electrical conductors, insulators, metallic or nonmetallic tubing, poles, reflecting discs, rods, wires, or similar objects used for transmission or reception of radio signals or electromagnetic waves for amateur radio service.

Animal Boarding Facilities

Any building, structure, or land, or combination thereof, used, designed, or arranged for the boarding, breeding, or care of domestic animals or pets for profit. Such use may also include training and daycare facilities. Such use shall also include the raising of five (5) or more dogs, regardless if the activity is for personal purposes or for profit.

Animal Hospitals/Clinics and Animal Grooming

A building where animals or pets are given medical or surgical treatment and are cared for during the time of such treatment. Such uses shall not have any outdoor facilities for the boarding or keeping of animals. Such use may include facilities for animal grooming.

Antenna

Any system of wires, poles, rods, reflecting discs, or similar devices used for the transmission or reception of radio or electromagnetic waves when such system is either external to or attached to the exterior of a structure.

Antenna, Wireless Telecommunications

Any antenna system designed to transmit and/or receive communications as authorized by Federal Communications Commission (FCC), including amateur radio operators' antennas.

Appeal

A review procedure by which a person may call into question an administrative decision made in accordance with this code. See Section 1105.08.

Applicant

Unless otherwise specified, an owner of a property or an agent for the owner, including a subdivider, developer, attorney, or similar representative, who has filed an application for development review pursuant to Chapter 1105: Review Procedures.

Application 

The process by which the applicant submits a request for any type of development review or approval as identified in Chapter 1105: Review Procedures. Applications include all written documentation, verbal statements, and representations in whatever forms and quantities required by the Village.

Architectural Feature  

A prominent or significant part or element of a building, structure, or site.

Area of Special Flood Hazard

The land in the flood plain within a community subject to a one percent (1%) or greater chance of flooding in any given year.

Assembly Halls or Conference Centers

Facilities or buildings available for lease by private parties that may include kitchen facilities for the preparation or catering of food, the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption during scheduled events not open to the public, and/or outdoor gardens, decks, or reception facilities.

Automatic Teller Machines (ATM)

An automated device that provides bank and financial institutional customers with cash withdrawal and other financial services without the need for a bank teller.

Automobile

Any motor vehicle designed and used for the carrying of people, including a truck. Such motor vehicle shall not exceed seven (7) feet and ten (10) inches in height or twenty-four (24) feet in length, or eight (8) feet in width.

Automotive Repair and Service (Major)

Any general repair, rebuilding, reconditioning, body or fender work, framework, painting, or the replacement of major parts of motor vehicles (e.g., major engine repair). This use type may also include towing services that provide towing or conveyance of a wrecked, inoperable, disabled, or illegally parked motor vehicle but shall not include storage of such vehicles on site.

Automotive Repair and Service (Minor)

Any structure or premises used for the sale of vehicle parts and fluids, excluding fuel sales, including lubrication of motor vehicles and replacements or installation of minor parts and accessories, but not including major repair work such as motor replacement, body and fender repair, or spray painting. Such uses shall also include establishments that sell parts or tires for vehicles as a retail establishment, regardless if the parts are installed on-site. See also "automotive repair and service (heavy)."

Awning

A shelter projecting from and supported by the exterior wall of a building constructed of non-rigid materials on a supporting framework. See also the definition of "canopy."

 

Figure 1129-A: Examples of traditional awnings

Base Flood

A flood elevation that has a one percent (1%) chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. The base flood may also be referred to as the one-hundred (100) year flood.

Basement or Cellar

That portion of a building where the floor level is more than four (4) feet below the adjoining finished grade.

Berm

An earthen mound designed to provide visual interest, screen undesirable views, and/or decrease noise. The height of a berm shall be measured from the average natural grade at the base of the berm.

Block

The property lying between the two (2) nearest intersecting streets, crossing or terminating, or between the nearest such street and a railroad right-of-way, unsubdivided acreage, a river or live stream, or between any of the foregoing and any other barrier to the continuity of development or the corporate lines of the Village.

Figure 1129-B: Illustration of block

Block Face

All lots that have frontage on the same street as the subject lot between an intersecting street or other boundaries.

Figure 1129-C: Illustration of a block face

Building

Any structure of a more or less permanent construction, having one or more floors and a roof supported by columns or walls, which is completely enclosed and is designed or intended for the shelter or protection of persons, animals, or property. When separated by party walls, each portion of such building shall be considered a separate structure. The term shall be used synonymously with "structure," unless otherwise noted, and shall be construed as if followed by the words "parts or parts thereof."

Building Code

Part Thirteen of these Sheffield Village Code of Ordinances.

Building Height

The vertical distance of a building as measured in Section 1113.01(e).

Building Lines

The lines along the interior side of any required front, rear, and side yards setbacks.

Building Unit

Any building subdivided into separate units or spaces and any interior space occupying any portion of the ground floor of any building provided that each unit or space has its own exterior entrance and is separated from other such spaces by a party wall or walls.

Building, Accessory

A subordinate building detached from but located on the same lot as the principal or main building, the use of which is incidental and accessory to the principal building or use and that is constructed subsequent to the principal building or main use of the land.

Building, Nonconforming

A building or portion thereof, lawfully existing on the effective date of this code, or amendments thereto, and that does not conform to the provisions of the code in the district in which it is located.

Building, Principal or Building, Main

A building occupied by the main use of the lot on which said building is located.

Bulk Sale or Distribution of Fuels and Oils

An establishment that sells or distributes unleaded and diesel gasoline, propane, oils, or any other similar types of fuels or liquids to other businesses but not to the general public.

Caliper

The American Association of Nurserymen standard for trunk measurement of nursery stock. The caliper of the trunk shall be taken six (6) inches above the ground up to and including a four-inch caliper size and twelve (12) inches above the ground for a caliper size greater than four (4) inches.

Canopy

A permanent structure made of cloth, metal, or other material attached or unattached to a building for the purpose of providing shelter to patrons or automobiles or as a decorative feature on a building wall. A canopy is not a completely enclosed structure but typically is supported by features other than the building facade (e.g., structural legs, building extensions, etc.). See also the definition of "awning."

Figure 1129-D: Example of a canopy and related sign

Carport

A roofed shelter, open on at least two (2) sides, which is designed as a shelter for operable automobiles. A carport may be freestanding or may be formed by the extension of a roof from the side of a building.

  

Figure 1129-E: Example image of a detached garage (left) and detached carport (right).

Cellular

Wireless transmission technology that uses a grid of antennas (cell sites) to send and receive signals from mobile telephones. The antenna "hands off" signals as the user travels between cell sites, enabling the same frequency, or channel, to be used by many callers simultaneously.

Cellular Communication Services

Personal communications accessed by means of cellular equipment and services.

Cellular or Wireless Communications Antenna

Any structure or device used to receive transmitted electromagnetic waves between cellular phones, pagers, commercial mobile services, wireless services, and ground-wired communications systems, including both directional antennas, such as panels, microwave dishes and satellite dishes, and omnidirectional antennas, such as whips and other equipment utilized to serve personal communication services.

Cemeteries

Land used for the burial of the human dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including columbariums, crematories, mausoleums, and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within the boundary of such cemetery.

Change

Any alteration, addition, demolition, removal, or construction involving any property subject to the provisions of this code.

Code of Ordinances

The Code of Ordinances of Sheffield Village, Ohio

Code Text or Map Amendment

An amendment or change to the text of this code or to the zoning map as reviewed and decided upon by the Village Council in accordance with Section 1105.03.

Collocation (Wireless Telecommunications)

The use of a wireless telecommunications facility, comprising a single wireless telecommunications tower, building, or other structure permanently affixed to real property, supporting two (2) or more antennas, disks, pods, or other similar devices used for telecommunications by more than one telecommunications provider, whether public or private. Collocation shall apply to such devices whether readily discernible to the naked eye or camouflaged.

Commercial and Business Support Services

A profit-making activity that renders services to other commercial or industrial businesses such as, but not limited to, courier services, information technology consultants, and internet providers.

Commercial Greenhouse or Nursery

An establishment used for the growing, storage, and sale of legal garden plants, shrubs, trees, or vines for retail or wholesale sales. Greenhouses that are part of a larger agricultural use shall be considered an accessory to the principal agricultural use of the land.

Commercial Message or Speech

Any sign, wording, logo, or other representation that, directly or indirectly, names, advertises, or calls attention to a business, product, service, or other commercial activity.

Commercial Recreational Facilities (Indoors)

A facility for any indoor profit-making activity which is providing participatory and/or spectator activities, such as, but not limited to, live performances, bowling alleys, commercial recreation, video game rooms, billiard halls, indoor skating rinks, bingo parlors, and similar entertainment activities. Commercial recreational facilities shall not include "adult entertainment establishments."

Commercial Recreational Facilities (Outdoors)

Land or facilities for any profit-making activity which is providing outdoor participatory and/or spectator activities such as, but not limited to, privately managed or owned parks, amusement parks, water parks, rollerblade rental, pay-to-play athletic fields, golf courses, miniature golf courses, driving ranges, outdoor ice-skating rinks, batting cages or swimming pools. Commercial recreational facilities shall not include "adult entertainment establishments."

Common Area

Any land area and/or facilities that are held in common ownership by the residents through a homeowners' association, community association, or other legal entity or which is held by the individual members of a condominium association as tenants-in-common.

Community Gardens

A single piece of land that is gardened collectively by a group of people that may include individual garden plots designated for individual gardens.

Completed Application

An application that contains all information and/or data necessary to enable an informed decision to be made with respect to an application.

Comprehensive Land Use Plan

The currently adopted long-range plan intended to guide the growth and development of the Village, based on study and analysis of the Village's existing conditions, including population and housing, historical and natural features, general land use patterns and zoning regulations, and other development considerations. References to the comprehensive land use plan may include supplemental plans adopted by Sheffield Village, including, but not limited to, a transportation plan, parks and recreation plan, etc.

Condominium

A multi-family dwelling or development containing individual owners' dwelling units and jointly owned and shared areas and facilities, which dwelling or development is subject to the provisions of a homeowners' association and/or Ohio law.

Construction

The act of constructing an addition to an existing building or structure or the erection of a new principal or accessory structure on a lot of property.

Contractor Equipment and Storage Yards

An unenclosed area or portion of a lot upon which a construction contractor maintains its principal office or a permanent business office used to store and maintain construction equipment and other materials customarily used in the trade carried on by a construction contractor.

County

Lorain County, Ohio

Cultural Facilities

Public or private facilities used for display, performance, or enjoyment of heritage, history, or the arts. This use includes but is not limited to, museums, libraries, art performance venues, cultural centers, and interpretative sites. Such use shall not include "theaters."

Day Care Centers (Adult or Child)

A facility administering to the needs of infants, toddlers, preschool children, and school children outside of school hours by persons other than their parents or guardians, custodians, or relatives by blood, marriage, or adoption for any portion of the twenty-four (24)-hour day in a building other than the child's own home. This use may include but is not limited to, after-school programs, office day care centers, and principal structures used for only day care/nursery school programs. This term may also include adult day care centers where persons other than children, family members, or guardians care for an adult for a portion of a twenty-four (24)-hour day in a building other than the adult's home. Adult day care centers shall not include operations that care for adults, including persons suffering from acute or chronic alcoholism or other drug dependency and persons who regularly require restraint.

Decision

An action a review board takes to take final action on an application. Such action will allow the applicant to move forward with the proposed development or move forward to the next step unless an appeal is made in accordance with state law or this code.

Deck

A flat surface that is not paved, which is capable of supporting weight similar to a floor, constructed outdoors and elevated from the ground that is either freestanding or attached to a building. Decks may also include stairways. Decks are unenclosed by solid or nonsolid walls or a roof. See also Section 1111.01.

Figure 1129-F: Example of a deck.

Dedication

The intentional and voluntary appropriation or transfer of land from the private owner to the Village or other public agency for the land to be pledged to a proper public use or purpose.

Demolition

Any act or process that destroys in whole or in part any building or structure.

Density

The number of dwelling units permitted or built per acre of total land area.

Detached Accessory Buildings

See the definition of "building, accessory."

Developer

Any individual, subdivider, firm, association, syndicate, partnership, corporation, trust, or other legal entity commencing proceedings under this code to affect the development of land for himself or herself or for another.

Development

Any building, construction, renovation, mining, extraction, grading, dredging, filling, excavation, or drilling activity or operation; any material change in the use or appearance of any structure or in the land itself; the division of land into parcels; any change in the intensity or use of land, such as an increase in the number of dwellings units in a structure or a change to a commercial or industrial use from a less intense use.

District

See the definition of "zoning district."

Drive-Through Facilities

Any portion of a building from which business is transacted, or is capable of being transacted, directly with customers located in a motor vehicle during such business transactions. The term "drive-through" shall also include "drive-up" and "drive-in" but shall not include vehicle washing establishments, automotive fuel sales, or automotive repair and service establishments.

Driveway

A private accessway used by vehicles and pedestrians for access to a parking space, garage, dwelling, structure, or a use of land.

Dwelling

A building designed or used exclusively as the living quarters for one or more families or housekeeping units.

Dwelling Unit

A single unit of one or more rooms providing complete, independent living facilities for one family, or alternatively by one housekeeping unit.

Dwelling, Multi-Family

A building or portion thereof designed with two (2) or more dwelling units.

Dwelling, Single-Family

A building designed for or used exclusively for residential purposes by one family or housekeeping unit.

Easement

A right granted by the owner of land to other parties to use such land for a specific purpose, such as public utility lines or for access to other properties.

Educational Institutions (Higher Education)

Any private or public secondary educational institution that includes, but is not limited to, secretarial schools, colleges and universities, business schools, cosmetology schools, seminaries, or any other institution providing collegiate-level curriculum and other post-secondary school educational opportunities.

Educational Institutions (Preschool and K-12)

A public or private facility that provides a curriculum of primary, elementary, secondary, or college preparatory academic instruction, including, but not limited to, preschools, kindergartens, elementary schools, junior high schools, and high schools. This definition shall not be deemed to include colleges, trade or business schools, or other post-secondary education facilities. See the definition of "educational institutions (higher education)."

Electronic Message Center

A sign designed so that the characters, letters, or illustrations can be changed or rearranged automatically on a lampbank or through mechanical means (e.g., electronic or digital signs).

Essential Services

The erection, construction, alteration, or maintenance by public utilities or Village departments, boards, or commissions of overhead, surface or underground gas, electrical steam, or water, distribution or transmission systems, collection, communication, supply, or disposal systems, including mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, tunnels, wires, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants, poles, electrical substation, gas regulator stations and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith, reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such Village utility or Village department, board, or commission or for the public health, safety, or general welfare, shall be exempt from the regulations of this code. Provided, however, that the installation shall conform to Federal Communications Commission and Federal Aviation Agency rules and regulations and those of other authorities having jurisdiction.

Establishment (Adult Entertainment Establishments)

Establishment means and includes any of the following:

   •   The opening or commencement of any adult entertainment establishment as a new business;

   •   The conversion of an existing business, whether or not an adult entertainment establishment, to an adult entertainment establishment;

   •   The additions of any adult entertainment establishment to any other existing adult entertainment establishment; or

   •   The relocation of any adult entertainment establishment.

Exterior Lighting

Any source of light that is installed or mounted outside of an enclosed building or structure, not including streetlights installed or maintained along public streets by a government agency or public utility. See Section 1113.03.

FAA

The Federal Aviation Administration

Facade

The exterior walls of a building or building face exposed to public view; the exterior face of a building that gives it a distinctive character.

Facade, Front

The facade of a building that contains the primary entrance of the building.

Facade, Primary

For the purpose of the sign regulations, a primary facade shall be as defined in Section 1121.04(c)(7).

Facade, Secondary

For the purpose of the sign regulations, a secondary facade shall be as defined in Section 1121.04(c)(7).

Family 

One or more persons, with their direct lineal descendants and adopted children (and including the domestic employees thereof), together with not more than two (2) persons not so related, living together in the whole or part of a dwelling comprising a single housekeeping unit.

FCC

The Federal Communications Commission, which is primarily responsible for the administration of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

The agency with the overall responsibility for administering the National Flood Insurance Program.

Fence

Any accessory wall or structure composed of wood, metal, stone, vinyl, or other material erected in such a manner and positioned to enclose, partially enclose, screen, or divide any premises or part of premises. Trellises or other structures supporting or for the purpose of supporting vines, flowers, and other vegetation when erected in such position as to enclose, partially enclose, screen, or divide any premises or any part of any premises shall be included within the definition of a fence.

Financial Guarantee 

A financial deposit to ensure that all improvements, facilities, or work required will be completed in conformance with the approved plan.

Financial Institutions

Any building, property, or activity of which the principal use or purpose of which is for depository purposes and includes the provision of financial services including, but not limited to, banks, credit unions, savings, and loan institutions.

Flag

Any fabric or other flexible material attached to or designed to be flown from a flagpole or similar device.

Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)

An official map on which the Federal Emergency Management Agency has delineated the areas of special flood hazard.

Flood Insurance Study

The official report in which the Federal Emergency Management Agency has provided flood profiles, floodway boundaries, and the water surface elevations of the base flood.

Flood or Flooding

A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from:

   •   The overflow of inland or tidal waters; and/or

   •   The unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source.

Floodplain

Any land susceptible to being inundated by water from the base flood.

Floodway

The channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation by more than five tenths (0.5) feet.

Food Services

An establishment whose principal business is the preparation of food and beverages for serving off-site. This includes catering services where there is no on-site restaurant or area for the serving of prepared foods and drinks.

Footcandle

A unit of illumination produced on a surface, all points of which are one foot from a uniform point source of one standard candle

Fraternal, Charitable, and Service-Oriented Clubs

A building or portion thereof or premises owned or operated by an entity, person, or group of persons for a social, educational, religious, or recreational purpose but not primarily for profit or to render a service that is customarily carried on as a business.

Frontage

All of the property abutting on one side of a street or place (crossing or terminating) or, if the street or place is dead-ended, then all of the property abutting on one side between an intersecting street or place and the dead end of the street or place.

Frontage, Building

The length of an enclosed building facing a public or private street. When a business does not front on a public right-of-way, the Village Administrator shall have the authority to designate the building frontage. In structures with more than one business, the frontage of each business shall be calculated separately in determining its sign area. See Figure 1129-G.

Frontage, Street or Frontage, Lot

The distance between the side lot lines measured along the required front setback line. In the case of a corner lot, frontage shall be measured along the shortest front lot line. Property lines that abut limited access roads shall not be construed to be included within any calculation of frontage. See Figure 1129-G.

 

Figure 1129-G: Illustration of building frontage versus street frontage.

Fuel Stations 

An establishment that sells unleaded and diesel gasoline or any other fuel used in vehicles as part of a retail activity available to the general public. Such use shall not include electric charging stations that are located in individual parking spaces.

Funeral Homes and Mortuaries

Any dwelling or establishment used and occupied by a professional licensed mortician for human burial preparation and funeral services.

Garage

An accessory building primarily intended for and used for the enclosed storage or shelter of motor vehicles of the owner or occupant of the principal building that is attached or detached from the principal building.

    

Figure 1129-H: Example image of a detached garage.

Government Offices and Buildings

Buildings or office space utilized for the provision of services by Sheffield Village, Lorain County, the State of Ohio, or the Federal Government that does not include outdoor activities other than parking. Such uses include but are not limited to municipal buildings, fire stations, police stations, government offices, and other similar uses.

Grade

   •   "Finished grade" means the elevation of the finished surface of the ground adjoining the building after final grading and normal settlement at the front of the building.

   •   "Natural grade" means the elevation of the undisturbed natural surface of the ground prior to any excavation or fill.

Grading

The stripping, cutting, filling, or stockpiling, or any combination thereof of earth-disturbing activity, inclusive of land in its cut or filled conditions

Grass

A species of perennial grass grown as permanent lawns or for landscape purposes.

Gravel Surface Parking Lot

A parking area that is temporarily paved with gravel or loose rock while the related development is under construction.

Ground Cover

A plant growing less than two (2) feet in height at maturity that is grown for ornamental purposes. Ground covers are used as an alternative to grasses. On slopes, ground covers control erosion while eliminating the maintenance of mowing on hillsides. Ground covers also provide permanent covering of open ground to prevent erosion and/or create visual appeal.

Hedge

A barrier of natural vegetation usually consisting of evergreen trees, shrubs, or tall grasses that can be used to enclose, screen, or separate areas.

Home Occupations

A business, profession, occupation, or trade that is conducted within a residential dwelling unit for the economic gain or support of a resident of the dwelling and is incidental and secondary to the residential use of the lot and does not adversely or perceptively affect the character of the lot or surrounding area.

Homeowners' Association

A community association that is organized within a development in which individual owners share common interests and responsibilities for open space, landscaping, private roads, or other such facilities.

Hospitals

An institution providing inpatient and outpatient medical and/or surgical care, diagnosis, and treatment for sick or injured persons, including beds for overnight care, laboratories, medical offices, training facilities, and other necessary accessory facilities. Such uses may include ambulance service.

Hotels and Motels

A facility offering fewer than thirty (30) days of consecutive lodging accommodations, in individual rooms or suites, on a daily rate, to the general public and potentially providing additional accessory services such as, but not limited to, restaurants, meeting rooms, and recreational facilities. Such facilities shall provide only internal access to the individual rooms or suites.

Housekeeping Unit

Five or fewer unrelated persons occupying a single dwelling unit, living as a single group, and doing their own cooking on the premises as distinguished from a group occupying a hotel, motel, or other group living arrangement. Such definition shall also include all residential facilities with five or fewer residents and residential facilities, as defined in Chapter 5123 of the ORC, that contain up to eight or fewer unrelated persons.

Improvement Plans

The engineering plans showing the types of materials and construction details for the proposed subdivision improvements.

Improvements

Street pavement or resurfacing, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, water lines, sewer lines, storm drains, street lights, flood control and drainage facilities, utility lines, structures, landscaping, and other related matters normally associated with the subdivision of raw land into building sites.

Industrial Service Uses

Establishments primarily engaged in rendering services to office, business, retail, or industrial establishments on a fee or contract basis, such as advertising and mailing; building maintenance; employment services; management and consulting services; protective services; office equipment rental and leasing; commercial research; development and testing; photo finishing; machine repair, and personal supply services.

Internet Gaming/Sweepstakes Cafe

Any computer, machine, game, or apparatus which, upon the insertion of a coin, token, or similar object, or upon payment of anything of value, where a product or service is provided, and may be operated by the public generally for use as a contest of skill, entertainment or amusement, whether or not registering a score, and which does not in any way, manner or form encourage gambling.

Landscaping

The improvement of a lot, parcel, tract of land, or portion thereof, with grass, shrubs, and trees. Landscaping may include pedestrian walks, flower beds, trees, shrubs, and ornamental objects such as fountains, statuary, and other similar natural and artificial objects. In no case shall landscaping include the use of artificial plants or flowers as a replacement for living plant material unless such an artificial plant closely resembles its natural counterpart in size, form, and color.

Light Fixture

The assembly that holds the lamp in a lighting system. It includes the elements designed to give light output controls, such as a reflector (mirror) or refractor (lens), the ballast, housing, and the attachment parts.

Light, Cutoff

An artificial outdoor light source designed to ensure that no light is directly emitted above a horizontal line parallel to the ground as regulated and illustrated in Section 1113.03.

Light, Non-Cutoff

An artificial outdoor light source designed to allow light to be directly emitted above a horizontal line parallel to the ground as regulated and illustrated in Section 1113.03.

Livestock

Any camelid or hooved animal raised for domestic or commercial use or any species of domestic fowl, including, but not limited to, chickens, turkeys, ostriches, emus, rheas, cassowaries, waterfowl and game birds raised for food production, breeding, exhibition or sale.

Loading Area

An off-street space or berth for the loading or unloading of freight carriers on the same lot as the structure they serve.

Loading Space

An off-street space or berth on the same lot with a building or contiguous to a group of buildings for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials that have an appropriate means of access.

Lot

A parcel of land occupied, or to be occupied, by a main building and accessory buildings, or utilized for the principal use and uses accessory thereto, together with such open spaces as are required and having the minimum size required for a lot under the provisions of this code. Every lot shall abut upon and have permanent access to a public street and have a minimum frontage required in the zoning district in which the lot is located.

Lot Area

The total area within the lot lines of a lot, excluding any street right-of-way or other legal public dedication. See Section 1113.01.

Lot Coverage

That portion of a lot, which, when viewed directly above, which would be covered by buildings.

Lot Depth

The mean horizontal distance between the front lot line and the rear lot line as measured in the general direction of the side lot lines.

Lot Line

The boundary line defining the limits of the lot. Lot line is synonymous with "property line."

Lot Line, Front

In the case of an interior lot, the "front lot line" means that line separating such lot from the street. In the case of a corner lot or double frontage lot, the front lot line is that line separating such lot from either street. See Section 1113.03.

Lot Line, Rear

A lot line opposite a front yard. A rear lot line is generally parallel to or less than forty-five (45) degrees to the front street right-of-way line. See Section 1113.03.

Lot Line, Side

A lot line generally extending perpendicular to the front and rear lot lines. The side lot line extends between the front lot line and the rear lot line. See Section 1113.03.

Lot of Record

A lot that is part of a subdivision, the part of which has been recorded in the office of the Lorain County Recorder or a parcel of land the deed to which was recorded prior to the adoption of this code.

Lot Width  

The horizontal distance between the side lot lines, as measured at right angles to the lot depth at the front setback line. See Section 1113.03.

Lot, Corner

A lot that adjoins the point of intersection or meeting of two or more streets and in which the interior angle formed by the street lines is one 135 degrees or less. See Figure 1129-I.

Figure 1129-I: Illustration of typical lot types.

Lot, Curved or Lot, Cul-De-Sac

A lot with frontage along a curved street or cul-de-sac. See Section 1113.03.

Lot, Double Frontage (Through)

A lot having a frontage on two non-intersecting streets, as distinguished from a corner lot. See Section 1113.03.

Lot, Flag (Panhandle)

A lot that does traditionally have a frontage on or abutting a public street but where access is provided through a narrow strip of land that fronts or has access to the street. See Section 1113.03.

Lot, Interior

A lot that has a single street frontage, a rear lot line, and at least two (2) side lot lines. See Section 1113.03.

Lot, Nonconforming

A lot that does not meet the minimum lot width, street frontage, and/or lot area requirements of the applicable zoning district.

Luminaire

The complete lighting unit, including the lamp, the fixture, and other parts.

Machinery and Heavy Equipment Sales, Leasing, Storage, and Service

An establishment engaged in the temporary storage for the sale or repair of tractor-trailer trucks and other equipment or vehicles used in commercial, industrial, or construction enterprises such as, but not limited to, bulldozers, cranes, backhoes, rollers, and lifts.

Manufacturing and Production (Heavy or Outdoors)

An establishment engaged in manufacturing, assembly, fabrication, packaging, or other industrial processing of products primarily from extracted or raw materials, or the bulk storage and handling of such products and materials, or an industrial establishment having the potential to produce noise, dust, glare, odors or vibration beyond its lot line. Such use shall also include any manufacturing or assembly facility that requires outdoor storage areas that exceed 500 square feet in area.

Manufacturing and Production (Indoors)

The manufacturing, processing, or assembly of products within a fully enclosed structure where noise, odor, light, or vibrations is not noticeable from the adjacent properties. See also "manufacturing and production (heavy or outdoors)."

Maximum Extent Feasible

That no feasible and prudent alternative exists, and all possible efforts to comply with the regulation or minimize the potential harm or adverse impacts have been undertaken. Economic considerations may be taken into consideration.

Mechanical Equipment

Equipment, devices, and accessories, the use of which relate to water supply, drainage, heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and similar purposes.

Medical Marijuana

Marijuana that is cultivated, processed, dispensed, tested, possessed, or used for a medical purpose as defined in Ohio Revised Code Section 3796.01.

Medical Marijuana Business

A business or home occupation use involving, in whole or in part, the cultivation, processing, distribution, and/or wholesale or retail sale of medical marijuana on the premises. This definition shall specifically include, but is not limited to, dispensaries of medical marijuana; facilities for the cultivation, packing, transportation, processing, storage, and/or sale of medical marijuana; and bakeries or kitchens producing edible forms of medical marijuana or products containing the same.

Medical Marijuana Cultivation

The cultivation of medical marijuana by a medical marijuana cultivator licensed by the State of Ohio.

Medical Marijuana Processing

Medical marijuana processing licensed by the State of Ohio.

Medical Marijuana Retail Dispensary

A medical marijuana retail dispensary licensed by the State of Ohio.

Medical/Dental Clinics and Urgent Care Centers

Office or clinic uses concerned with the diagnosis, treatment, and care of human beings. This definition includes twenty-four (24)-hour urgent care centers but does not include "hospitals," "medication maintenance facilities or dispensaries," "skilled nursing facilities," or "personal care facilities." The use shall not include any ambulance service or overnight stays.

Microbrewery, Microdistillery, or Microwinery

An establishment where beer, liquor, wine, or other alcoholic beverage is manufactured on the premises. The manufacturing may be the principal use of the facility or may be subordinate to a restaurant, bar, or tavern as allowed in Section 1107.06(q). A microbrewery, microdistillery, or microwinery may include some off-site distribution of its alcoholic beverages consistent with state law.

Mixed-Use Buildings

A building that contains a commercial or office use and a residential use within a single building as provided for in this code and where the residential uses are located on upper floors only.

Modification

Any change in use, addition, or alteration of a building or structure, or any change in type and/or increase in the quantity of regulated substances used, stored, handled, or produced.

Monument

A box with an iron pin at the intersection of the centerlines of (2) two streets or at a location where the point of tangency meets the point of curvature for curved sections of streets.

Motor Vehicle

Every vehicle propelled or drawn by power other than muscular power, except road rollers, traction engines, power shovels, power cranes, and other equipment used in construction work and not designed for or employed in general highway transportation, hole-digging machinery, well-drilling machinery, ditch-digging machinery, farm machinery, trailers used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials between a local place of storage or supply and the farm when drawn or towed on a street or highway at a speed of twenty-five (25) miles per hour or less, threshing machinery, hay baling machinery, agricultural tractors and machinery used in the production of horticultural, floricultural, agricultural and vegetable products and trailers designed used exclusively to transport a boat between a place of storage and marina, or in and around a marina when drawn or towed on a street or highway for a distance of no more than ten (10) miles and a speed of twenty-five (20) miles per hour or less.

Multi-Tenant Use

A principal building with multiple uses of a similar use classification (e.g., commercial, industrial, etc.) but that has multiple tenant spaces and/or multiple use types. A strip mall or strip center with a mixture of retail uses such as restaurants, retail stores, and personal service establishments is an example of a multi-tenant building. Such use does not include any use within the residential use classification.

Nonconforming Site Condition

A site improvement that was legally established but no longer conforms to the parking, landscaping, architectural, or other design standards for the site exclusive of the lot area, lot width, or other site development standards established in this code. See also "lot, nonconforming."

Nonconformity, Legal

Lots, uses of land, structures, and uses of structures and land in combination, lawfully existing at the time of enactment of this ordinance or its amendments, which do not conform to the regulations of the applicable zoning district, and are therefore incompatible. See also the definitions for "use, nonconforming," "lot, nonconforming," "building, nonconforming," "nonconforming site condition," and "structure, nonconforming."

Nudity, Nude, or State of Nudity

The showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area, vulva, anus, anal cleft, or cleavage with less than a fully opaque covering; or the showing of the female breasts with less than a fully opaque covering of any part of the nipple.

Nursery Schools or Day Care Centers

As a temporary use, this term shall have the same meaning as "Day Care Centers (Adult or Child)."

Occupant

A person who, on a regular basis, spends nights at a residence. A person is considered an occupant regardless of whether they spend the majority of their nights at a residence if the times they do stay overnight are regular and recurrent. In addition, a person shall be considered an occupant if their clothes or other daily living supplies are maintained at the residence.

Outdoor Dining

Areas on sidewalks (public or private), patios, or other unenclosed areas, excluding vehicular use areas, that are designated for outdoor seating where patrons may be served food and beverage for on-site dining.

Outdoor Display or Sales

The placement of small products or materials for sale outside of a retail or wholesale sales establishment.

Outdoor Drop Boxes

Drop-off boxes are small collection facilities where recyclable materials, clothing, or household goods are accepted from the public (e.g., neighborhood recycling stations and thrift store collection boxes).

Outdoor Storage and Bulk Sales

A facility or lot used for the outdoor storage of materials and/or vehicles that are to be used for construction or for manufacturing processes and where such uses are the principal use of the lot. Such use may also include the sales of materials related to construction or manufacturing where the sales are direct to contractors or business and not open to the general public for retail sales. This use may also include the outdoor storage of fleet vehicles.

Outdoor Vending Machines

Vending machines are small machines that are capable of accepting money in return for the automatic dispensing of goods (e.g., drink machines, snack machines, video machines).

Owner

Any individual, firm, association, syndicate, co-partnership corporation, trust or any other legal entity, having legal title to or sufficient proprietary interest in the land.

Parking Aisle

The driveway or access drive by which a vehicle enters and departs a parking space.

Parking Area

An area designed for the parking of vehicles that includes parking spaces and any driveways or access drives specifically related to the parking spaces.

Parking Lots

An outdoor area made up of marked parking spaces and associated access drives where motor vehicles may be stored for the purpose of temporary off-street parking. Also known as a parking area.

Parking Space

A suitably surfaced and permanently maintained area on privately owned property either within or outside of a building of sufficient size to store one standard automobile.

Passive Parks, Open Space, and Natural Areas

Any park or recreational facility where there is no grading of the land, the construction of facilities, lighting, or development of ball fields with the exception that passive parks, recreational facilities, and conservation areas may include the development of trails and sidewalks.

Patio

An unenclosed outdoor hard-surfaced area that is no higher than eighteen (18) inches above the ground. If a pergola or other roof structure is attached to the principal building and extends over the patio, then the patio and roofing shall be considered a porch.

 

Figure 1129-J: Illustrative example of a patio.

Patios, Porches, and Decks

See separate definitions for "patio," "porch," or "deck."

Pedestrian Way

A public or private right of way solely for pedestrian circulation.

Pennants

A triangular or irregular piece of fabric or other material, whether or not containing a message of any kind, commonly attached by strings or strands, or supported on small poles, intended to flap in the wind.

Performance Standard

A criterion established to control enclosure, dust, smoke, fire and explosive hazards, lighting, glare and heat, noise, odor, toxic and noxious matter, vibrations and other conditions created by or inherent in uses of land or buildings. See Section 1113.04.

Person

Any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, agency, unincorporated association, municipal corporation, county or State agency within Ohio, the federal government, or any combination thereof. An agency is further defined in the Ohio R.C. 111.15 as any governmental entity of the State and includes, but is not limited to, any board, department, division, commission, bureau, society, council, institution, state college or university, community college district, technical college district or state community college. Agency does not include the general assembly, the controlling board, the adjutant general's department, or any court.

Personal Care

Personal care means the provision of personal services such as help in walking and getting in and out of bed; assistance with bathing, dressing, and feeding; preparation of a special diet; and supervision over medications which can be self-administered.

Personal Services

Establishments that are primarily engaged in providing services generally involving the care of the person or person's possessions. Personal services may include, but are not limited to, laundry and dry-cleaning services, barber shops, beauty salons, health and fitness studios, music schools, informational and instructional services, tanning salons, and portrait studios.

Personal Wireless Services

Commercial mobile services, unlicensed wireless services and common carrier wireless exchange access services, including cellular services.

Personal Wireless Telecommunications Service

Communications services provided by a commercial mobile service provider. It includes a common carrier wireless exchange access service, cellular services, and unlicensed wireless services.

Pick-Up Window

Any portion of a building from which business is transacted, or is capable of being transacted, directly with customers who walk-up to the window or door during such business transactions. There shall be no direct vehicular access to the pick-up window.

Places of Worship

A religious institution where a congregation of any denomination, regularly participates in or holds religious services, meetings and other activities, including buildings in which the religious services are held and which may include accessory indoor uses such as, but not limited to, day care or educational institution facilities.

Planned Unit Development

A development that is planned for a single use, or to integrate a variety of uses into a comprehensive development, in which lot size, setback lines, yard areas, and building types may be varied and modified to achieve particular design objectives and make provision for open spaces, common areas, utilities, public improvements, and collateral uses. For the purposes of this code, Planned Unit Developments are developments approved prior to the effective date of this amendment. See Chapter 1109: Planned Unit Developments.

Planning Commission

The Village Planning Commission of Sheffield Village, Ohio

Plat

A map graphically indicating a proposed land subdivision or re-subdivision prepared in a form suitable for filing for record, with necessary affidavits, dedications and acceptances, and with complete bearings and dimensions of all lines defining lots, blocks, streets, alleys, public areas, and other dimensions of land.

Plat, Final

The final map of all or a portion of the subdivision which is presented to the Planning Commission and Village Council for final approvals in accordance with this code, and which, if approved, shall be filed with the proper county recording officer. May also be referred to as the "final subdivision plat."

Plat, Preliminary

A plat of all parts of a subdivision prepared by a professional registered engineer or surveyor, incorporating recommendations and requirements of planning authorities, and showing topography, means of drainage, roadways, grades, sanitary and water service, and other information for preliminary approval by the Planning Commission in accordance with this code. A preliminary plat may also be referred to as the "preliminary subdivision plat."

Playsets, Treehouses and Trampolines

Recreational equipment for children that may include, but is not limited to, swings, slides, monkey bars, and play enclosures.

Porch

An unenclosed area with a roof that is attached to a building but not used for livable space. A porch also includes paved areas without a roof if the surface area is higher than 18 inches above the adjacent grade (e.g., stoops). See Section 1111.01.

 

Figure 1129-K: Examples of a front porch (left) and back porch (right).

Portable Storage Unit

A portable enclosed unit of durable construction or material, not to exceed eight feet wide by eight (8) feet tall by sixteen (16) feet long, designed for permanent or temporary storage, which can be transported by vehicle and left on-site.

Public Hearing

A public hearing is where a decision-making board (Village Council, Planning Commission, or BZA) are holding a special review of an application where specific notice is provided to the public and the public is afforded an opportunity to speak and be heard. Public hearings take place during a public meeting of the applicable decision-making body.

Public Improvements

See the definition of "improvements."

Public Meeting

A public meeting is a prearranged gathering of a majority of the members of a public body (Village Council, Planning Commission, or BZA) for the purpose of discussing public business. Public meetings are subject to the Open Meetings Act of Ohio. Both public hearings and adjudication hearings, as defined and addressed in this code, can only take place at a public meeting.

Public Utility Buildings and Facilities

Structures and land used for storage, transmission, or recovery facility for water, sewerage, telephone, electric or gas and other similar utilities owned or operated by any public agency or by any utility subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission (PUCO). Such uses may also include salt storage or other outdoor activities necessary for the efficient operations of the local, state, or federal government.

Raceway or Wireway

An elongated metal enclosure used to mount individual channel lettering and to conceal related transformers and wiring.

Raising of Livestock

The noncommercial raising and caring of livestock on a residential lot as an accessory use.

Recommendation

An action a review board takes to recommend a decision to another review board or decision-making authority, typically the Village Council, where the action is not the final decision on the application. A recommendation does not result in any approvals to move forward with development.

Recreational Courts

An area of a yard that is permanently improved and surfaced for the recreational use of the property owner for games such as tennis, basketball, racquetball, and similar sports or games.

Research and Development Facilities

An establishment or facility for carrying on investigation in the natural, physical, or social sciences, or engineering and development as an extension of investigation with the objective of creating end products. Such establishment shall not include the manufacturing or assembly of products beyond the development of prototype systems or products. All activities shall take place within an enclosed building.

Residential Community Centers

A building used for the meeting, recreation, or social activity designed to accommodate and serve the residents of a subdivision or development with which the use is associated and that may be privately owned or jointly owned by property owners.

Residential Facilities

Any residential facility meant as a permanent residence for persons, licensed by the State of Ohio, designed to allow not more than sixteen (16) persons needing specialized care, counseling, ongoing medical treatment, or supervision to live in the same building or complex of buildings and engage in some congregate living activity in a non-institutional environment as regulated by Chapters 5119, 5120 and 5123 of the Ohio Revised Code.

Restaurants

An establishment whose principal business is the selling of food and beverages to the customer in a ready-to-consume state, in individual servings, to be consumed within the building or as take-a-way. Where allowed, such restaurants may also include drive-through facilities.

Retail Businesses

Any business selling goods, wares, or merchandise directly to the ultimate consumer for direct consumption and not for resale. Retail business uses include but are not limited to supermarkets, stores that sell electronics, hardware, apparel, footwear, appliances, furniture, department stores, and discount stores.

Retail Commercial Uses

For the purposes of accessory uses, this term shall mean "retail businesses" that are accessory to the principal use.

Right-of-Way

A strip or area of land dedicated for use as a public roadway, railroad, or dedicated for other public uses. For streets, the right-of-way typically includes the paved roadway, curbs, lawn strips, sidewalks, lighting, drainage facilities, and utilities and may include special features (required by the topography or treatment) such as grade separation, landscaped areas, viaducts, and bridges.

Roadway

See the definition of "street."

Roof Line

Either the edge of the roof or the top of the parapet, whichever forms the top line of the building silhouette. In regards to sign placement, where a building has several roof levels, the pertinent roofline or parapet shall be the one belonging to that portion of the building on whose wall the sign is located.

Satellite Dishes

A parabolic dish antenna, including its structural supports, used for the reception of various satellite television programming signals.

Screening

A method of visually shielding or obscuring a structure, parking, mechanical equipment, refuse collection center, or incompatible land use, from another and from public view by fencing, walls, beams, or densely planted vegetation. See Chapter 1117: Landscaping and Screening.

Self-Storage Facilities

A building that contains varying sizes of individual, compartmentalized, or controlled-access stalls, lockers, or buildings for the dead storage of a customer's goods or wares where the access to such stalls or lockers can occur only within the inside of the building and where there is no outdoor storage. Self-storage facilities shall also include buildings used for storage of personal or business items, regardless of commercial purposes, where such storage exceeds forty percent (40%) of the total floor area of the building.

Semi-Nudity or Semi-Nude Condition

A state of dress in which opaque clothing covers not more than the genitals, pubic region, and nipple of the female breast, as well as portions of the body covered by supporting straps or devices.

Setback

The required minimum horizontal distance between a lot line or the proposed right-of-way, whichever is more restrictive, and a building, surface parking lot, or structure as established by this code.

Setback Line

A line established by this code that is generally parallel with, and measured from, the lot line or the right-of-way, whichever is more restrictive, defining the minimum distance a building, structure, parking area, or outdoor storage area shall be located from the said lot or thoroughfare line, except as may be provided in this code. For example, a front yard setback line is the line formed by applying the minimum front yard setback from any applicable front lot lines.

Setback, Building

The setback required from any right-of-way and the principal or accessory building as established in this code.

Setback, Front

The minimum distance required between a building, structure, parking area, outside storage area, or other use of the property and the front lot line. See Section 1113.03.

Setback, Rear

The minimum distance required between a building, structure, parking area, outside storage area, or other use of the property and the rear lot line. See Section 1113.03.

Setback, Side

The minimum distance required between a building, structure, parking area, outside storage area, or other use of the property and a lot that is shared with another lot where such lot line is defined as a side lot line. See Section 1113.03.

Short-Term Rental

The leasing of any residential property, either the entire dwelling unit or individual rooms, for a period of time less than 30 consecutive days to one additional family or housekeeping unit. This use includes but is not limited to homes or rooms being rented through services such as AirBnB, VRBO, HomeAway, etc.

Shrub

A self-supporting, deciduous, or evergreen woody plant, normally branched near the base, bushy, and less than fifteen (15) feet in height.

Sidewalk

That portion of the road right-of-way, easement, or private property that is improved for the use of pedestrian traffic by the general public.

Sign

Any object, device, display or structure, or part thereof situated outdoors or adjacent to the interior of a window or doorway 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, pictures, logos, figures, designs, symbols, fixtures, colors, illumination or projected images.

Sign Area

The entire display area of a sign, including the advertising surface located on one or more sign faces and any framing, trim, and molding, but not including the supporting structure as measured pursuant to Section 1121.04.

Sign Copy

Those letters, numerals, figures, symbols, logos, and graphic elements comprising the content or message of a sign.

Sign Face

The surface of the sign upon, against, or through which the message of the sign is exhibited.

Sign Height

The vertical distance of a sign, from top to bottom, as measured in accordance with Section 1121.04(b).

Sign Structure

Any structure that supports, has supported, or is capable of supporting a sign, including a decorative cover.

Sign, A-Frame

A freestanding temporary sign which is ordinarily in the shape of an "A" or some variation thereof, which is readily moveable, and is not permanently attached to the ground or any structure. See also the definition of T-frame signs.

Sign, Awning

A permanent sign painted on, printed on, or attached flat against the surface of an awning.

Sign, Balloon

A sign that is an air-inflated object, which may be of various shapes, made of flexible fabric, resting on the ground or a structure, and equipped with a portable blower motor that provides a constant flow of air into the device. Balloon signs are restrained, attached, or held in place by a cord, rope, cable, or similar method. See also the definition of "Air-Activated Graphic."

Sign, Banner

A temporary sign constructed of canvas, plastic, fabric, or similar lightweight, non-rigid material that can be mounted to a structure with a cord, rope, cable, or a similar method. Where a banner sign is supported by stakes or another type of supporting structure for posting in the ground, such sign shall be classified as a temporary "yard sign."

Sign, Building  

Any permanent sign attached to any part of a building, including an awning, canopy, marquee, projecting, hanging, or wall sign.

Sign, Canopy

A permanent sign attached to the soffit or fascia of a canopy of a covered entrance or walkway, or to a permanent awning or marquee.

Sign, Changeable Copy

A sign designed so that the characters, letters, or illustrations can be changed or rearranged manually or electronically without altering the sign display surface. See also the definition of "sign, manual changeable copy" and "electronic message center."

Sign, Drive-Through Facility

Any permanent signage allocated along a drive-through lane that is oriented toward the customer or user in the drive-through lane.

Sign, Driveway

A small permanent sign located near driveway access points and/or at the intersection of internal access drives.

Sign, Feather

A temporary sign that is constructed of cloth, canvas, plastic fabric, or similar lightweight, non-rigid material and that is supported by a single vertical pole mounted into the ground or on a portable structure.

Sign, Freestanding

Any sign supported upon the ground by a monument, pedestal, pole, bracing, or other permanent measure and not attached to any building or other structure.

Sign, Illuminated

Any sign which has characters, letters, figures, designs, or outlines illuminated externally or internally by any light source other than non-reflected natural daylight.

Sign, Manual Changeable Copy 

A changeable copy sign designed so that the characters, letters, or illustrations can be changed or rearranged manually. May also be known as readerboards.

Sign, Monument

A permanent freestanding sign, not attached to a building, that is placed upon or supported by the ground independently of any other structure and is limited to a height not to exceed eight feet. Monument signs, unlike pole signs, typically are on a monument or pedestal structure.

Figure 1129-L: The above image provides an example of two monument signs.

Sign, Nonconforming

Any sign which was erected legally prior to the adoption of this code but which does not comply with subsequently enacted sign restrictions and regulations or a sign which does not conform to the sign code requirements.

Sign, Permanent

A sign permitted by this code to be located on the premises for an unlimited period of time and designed to be permanently attached to a structure or the ground that is constructed of rigid, non-flexible materials.

Sign, Pole

A sign which is supported wholly by a pole or poles and designed so as to permit pedestrian or vehicular traffic to flow underneath the bottom of the sign cabinet or copy.

Figure 1129-M: The above image provides an example of a pole sign.

Sign, Projecting

A permanent sign that is affixed perpendicular to a building or wall and extends more than eighteen (18) inches beyond the face of such building or wall.

Sign, Roof

Any sign erected on a roof.

Sign, Sidewalk

A temporary sign that may be placed outside, during business hours, in accordance with this code and all other applicable ordinances and resolutions. See the definition of "sign, T-frame" and "sign, A-frame."

Sign, Temporary

A sign that is neither permanently anchored to the ground, nor permanently affixed to a structure, nor mounted on a chassis, and/or is intended for a limited period of display.

Sign, T-Frame 

A temporary portable sign which is ordinarily in the shape of an upside-down "T" or some variation thereof, which is readily moveable and is not permanently attached to the ground or any structure. See also the definition for A-frame signs.

Sign, Wall

A permanent sign attached directly to an exterior wall of a building and which does not extend more than eighteen (18) inches from nor above the roof line or beyond the limits of the outside wall, with the exposed face of the sign in a plane parallel to the building wall. Murals and other painted signs are considered wall signs pursuant to this section.

Sign, Window

Any sign that is applied to the interior or exterior of a window or door, or a sign located near a window or door within a building, for the purpose of being visible and read from the outside of the building.

Sign, Yard

Any temporary sign placed on the ground or attached to a supporting structure, posts, or poles that is not attached to any building.

Site Plan

A plan prepared to scale accurately showing, with complete dimensions, the boundaries of the site, the location of buildings, exterior lighting, landscaping, vehicular use areas, access drives, signs, outdoor storage areas, and any other features that comprise a proposed development that are further defined in Section 1105.05 and that demonstrate a development's compliance with this code.

Site Plan Review

The review of proposed site plans as reviewed and decided upon in accordance with Section 1105.05.

Skilled Nursing

Those nursing services and procedures employed in caring for the sick, which requires training, judgment, technical knowledge, and skills beyond those which the untrained person possesses. It involves administering medications and carrying out procedures in accordance with the orders, instructions, and prescriptions of the attending physician or surgeon.

Skilled Nursing or Personal Care Facilities

A long-term or short-term in-patient care facility that provides skilled nursing services or personal care in a facility that is not in a traditional dwelling type (e.g., single-family dwelling). Such facility shall not mean the same as "hospitals" or "residential facility."

Solar Panels

The equipment and requisite hardware that provides and is used for collecting, transferring, converting, storing, or using incident solar energy for water heating, space heating, cooling, generating electricity, or other applications that would otherwise require the use of a conventional source of energy such as petroleum products, natural gas, manufactured gas, or electricity produced from a nonrenewable resource. Such systems include passive solar energy systems that capture the sun's energy in building design and construction components, solar thermal energy systems that convert sunlight to heat, as in a hot water tank or swimming pool, and photovoltaic solar energy systems that convert sunlight to electricity.

Specified Anatomical Areas

   •   The human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered; or

   •   Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, or female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola.

Specified Sexual Activities

Specified sexual activities means any of the following:

   •   The fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus, or female breasts;

   •   Sex acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including intercourse, oral copulation, masturbation or sodomy; or

   •   Excretory functions as part of or in connection with any of the activities set forth in Section 1107.06(k).

Static/Instant Message Change

On electronic message centers, a static or instant message change is when one message changes to another message instantly without scrolling, flashing, or other movement of the message.

Story

That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor above it; or, if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it.

   •   "First story," as applied to the residential district, means the lowest story or the ground story of any building, the floor of which is less than four (4) feet below the average contact ground level at the exterior walls of the building.

   •   "Half story," as applied to the residential districts, means a partial story under a gable, hip, or gambrel roof, the wall plates of which on at least two opposite exterior walls are less than four (4) feet above the floor of such story.

Streamer

A ribbon-shaped or cord-like rope that may have pennants and/or banners attached and which is stretched or hung between two or more supports.

Street

A right-of-way dedicated or deeded and accepted for public use, which provides for vehicular and pedestrian traffic. A street will typically include:

   •   The paved area, or cartway, principally for use by motorized vehicles and usually bordered with curbs and gutter;

   •   A sidewalk between the paved area and right-of-way line principally for use by pedestrians; and

   •   A landscaped area between the sidewalk and paved area which is often called a "treelawn".

Street Line

The street right-of-way line.

Street, Arterial

A public street that carries vehicular traffic of a State or Federal highway route, excluding Interstate 90, or a highway primarily for through traffic, carrying heavy loads and large volumes of traffic, usually on a continuous route.

Street, Collector

A street that carries or is expected to carry large amounts of vehicular traffic whose origin or destination is not primarily in abutting properties. Collector streets are intended to provide access to neighborhoods or sub-neighborhoods and to carry traffic from local streets to the arterial street system, including the principal entrance and circulation routes within a residential subdivision.

Street, Cul-de-Sac

A short street having one open end to traffic and the other end permanently terminated by a vehicle turnaround.

Street, Dead-End

A street temporarily having only one outlet for vehicular traffic and intended to be extended or continued in the future.

Street, Local

A street designed primarily for providing access to residential, commercial, or other abutting property through driveways or other access points.

Street, Private

An area set aside to provide access for vehicular traffic within a development that is not dedicated or intended to be dedicated to the Village and that is not maintained by the Village.

Street, Public

A street that has been dedicated or deeded to the public for public use and which affords principal access to abutting property.

Structural Alteration

Any change or rearrangement in the supporting members of a building, such as beams, girders, bearing walls, columns or partitions, or any increase in the area or cubical contents of the building.

Structure

That which is constructed on or under the ground or attached or connected thereto, including but not limited to: buildings, barriers, bridges, bulkheads, chimneys, fences, garages, outdoor seating facilities, parking areas, platforms, pools, poles, streets, tanks, tents, towers, sheds, signs, walls, and walks; and excluding trailers and other vehicles whether on wheels or other supports.

Structure, Accessory

A structure on the same lot with, and of a nature customarily incidental and subordinate to, the principal structure.

Structure, Nonconforming

A structure or portion thereof, lawfully existing on the effective date of this code or amendments thereto, and which does not conform to the provisions of the code in the district in which it is located.

Structure, Temporary

A structure permitted for a limited duration with the intent that such use will terminate or the structure will be removed automatically upon expiration of the fixed time period. A temporary structure is without a foundation or footing.

Subdivider

Any individual, firm, association, syndicate, partnership, corporation, trust, or any other legal entity commencing proceedings under this code to affect a subdivision of land hereunder for himself or for another.

Subdivision

The division of any parcel of land, shown as a unit or as contiguous units on the last preceding tax roll, into two (2) or more parcels, sites, or lots, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership, provided, however, that the improvement of one or more parcels of land for residential, commercial or industrial structures or groups of structures, not involving the division, combination, alteration, or allocation of land for the opening, widening or extension of any street or streets, and the division or allocation of land as open spaces for common use by owners, occupants or leaseholders or as easements for the extension and maintenance of public sewer, water, storm drainage or other public facilities, shall be exempted.

Subdivision Modification

A modification to any of the public improvement or subdivision design standards of Chapter 1123: Subdivision Design, as authorized by the Planning Commission in accordance with Section 1105.10(f).

Subdivision, Major

A subdivision that is not classified as a minor subdivision.

Subdivision, Minor

A division of a parcel of land along an existing street not involving the opening, widening, or extension of any street or road and involving no more than five lots after the original tract has been completely subdivided. See further distinction in Section 1105.09.

Substantial Improvement

Any repair, reconstruction, or improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds fifty percent (50%) of the market value of the structure either

   •   Before the improvement or repair is started; or

   •   If the structure has been damaged and is being restored before the damage occurred.

For the purposes of this definition, "substantial improvement" is considered to occur when the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor, or other structural parts of the building commences, whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the structure. The term does not, however, include either

   •   Any project for improvement of a structure to comply with existing state or local health, sanitary, or safety code specifications that are solely necessary to assure safe living conditions; or

   •   Any alteration of a structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places or a State Inventory of Historic Places.

Swimming Pools

Any pool, lake, or open tank primarily used for swimming or wading, not located within a completely enclosed building and containing or normally capable of containing water to a depth at any point greater than three (3) feet and as further defined in Section 1111.01.

Taverns, Bars, or Night Clubs

Establishments whose primary purpose is providing or dispensing, for on-site consumption, any fermented malt beverage, malt beverage, special malt, vinous, or spirituous liquors, and that may include entertainment. The sale of food products, including, but not limited to, sandwiches and light snacks, may be a secondary use to the service of the aforementioned drinks.

Telecommunications

All communications services and the use thereof, whether by means of public or private providers, and includes cellular telecommunications, personal wireless services, and amateur radio broadcasting, by any transmission, emission, or reception of signals, writing, images, and sounds, or information of any nature by wire, radio, visual or the electromagnetic system.

Temporary Event with Extensive Impact

A short-term event or activity that may occur for a longer time period; will require broader Village resources; or will have more extensive impacts on the Village or adjacent properties than a temporary use with limited impact.

Temporary Event with Limited Impact

A short-term event or activity with minimal impact on street, public services, or adjacent properties.

Temporary Structures for Construction Purposes

A mobile home, trailer, dumpster, or similar temporary structure that is used as an office, storage, or collection of debris on a temporary basis in conjunction with a construction project.

Theaters

Any building or part of a building used for the showing of motion pictures or for dramatic, dance, musical, live, or pre-recorded performances. Such use may include a lobby area and refreshment stand for the patrons.

Tower (Wireless Telecommunications)

Any structure built for the sole or primary purpose of supporting any FCC-licensed or authorized antennas and their associated facilities, including structures that are constructed for wireless communications services including, but not limited to, private, broadcast, and public safety services, as well as unlicensed wireless services and fixed wireless services such as microwave backhaul, and the associated site.

Tree

A self-supporting woody, deciduous, or evergreen plant with a well-defined central trunk or stem which normally grows to a mature height of fifteen (15) feet or more in Lorain County, Ohio.

Tree, Deciduous

Generally, a tree that loses all of its leaves for part of the year. Sometimes called a broad-leaf tree or a hardwood tree.

Tree, Evergreen

A tree that remains green throughout the year.

Truck Terminals

The use of property or buildings for a business establishment that is primarily related to the distribution of goods and merchandise and/or the temporary parking of motor freight vehicles or trucks during loading and unloading, and between trips. While truck terminals may include necessary warehouse space for storage or transitory freight., such storage shall be short-term (thirty (30) days or less). Truck terminals may include building facades that are occupied entirely or partially by loading docks and garages for access by trucks.

Type-B Day Care Homes

A permanent residence of the provider in which child day care is provided for one to six children at one(1) time and in which no more than three (3) children may be under two (2) years of age at one time. In counting children for the purposes of this definition, any children under six (6) years of age who are related to the provider and who are on the premises of the Type B Home shall be counted. A Type B Home does not include a residence in which the needs of children are administered if all of the children whose needs are being administered to are siblings of the same immediate family and the residence is the home of the siblings.

Use

Any purpose for which a lot, building, or other structure, or a tract of land may be designated, arranged, intended, maintained, or occupied; or any activity, occupation, business, or operation carried on or intended to be carried on in a building or other structure or on a tract of land.

Use, Accessory

A use located on the same lot as the principal use of a building or land but incidental and subordinate to and constructed subsequent to the principal use of the building or land.

Use, Conditional

A use that may be appropriate or desirable in a specified zoning district but requires special approval through the conditional use approval (See Section 1105.04.) because, if not carefully located or designed, it may create special problems such as excessive height or bulk or abnormal traffic congestion.

Use, Nonconforming

Any building or land lawfully occupied by a use that was in accordance with the zoning regulations, if any, in existence when the use commenced and which, through subsequent enactments or changes of zoning regulations either prior to the passage of this code or by the passage of this code or amendments thereto, does not conform or did not conform thereafter with the use regulations of the district in which it is situated.

Use, Permitted

A use that is permitted in a specified zoning district through either zoning compliance review or site plan review, as may be applicable.

Use, Permitted with Standards

A use that is permitted in a specified zoning district through either zoning compliance review or site plan review, as may be applicable, provided such use meets the additional use-specific standards set forth in this code.

Use, Principal or Main

The main use of land or buildings as distinguished from subordinate or accessory uses. A principal use may be either permitted, permitted with standards, or conditionally permitted.

Use, Temporary

A use that is established for a fixed period of time with the intent to discontinue such use upon the expiration of such time and does not involve the construction or alteration of any permanent structure. See Chapter 1111: Accessory and Temporary Uses.

Variance

A modification of the strict terms of these regulations where such modification will not be contrary to the public interest and where, owing to conditions peculiar to the property and not the result of the action of the applicant, a literal enforcement of these regulations would result in a practical difficulty. See Section 1105.07.

Vehicle

Every device, including a motorized bicycle, in, upon, or by which any person or property may be transported or drawn upon a street or highway, except motorized wheelchairs and devices other than bicycles moved by human power. Where a vehicle type is not specifically defined in this code, such vehicle shall be considered as defined by the Ohio Revised Code.

Vehicle and Equipment Sales and Leasing

Any building or land where new or used passenger cars, pick-up trucks, motorcycles, boats, trailers, and other recreational vehicles, in operational condition, are sold or leased to customers. This use may also include establishments engaged in the temporary storage for the sale or leasing of tractor-trailer trucks and other equipment or vehicles used in commercial, industrial, or construction enterprises such as, but not limited to, bulldozers, cranes, backhoes, rollers, and lifts.

Vehicle Washing Establishments

The use of a site for washing and cleaning passenger vehicles, recreational vehicles, or other light-duty equipment. This shall include establishments that provide car detailing services.

Vehicle, Recreational

A vehicle or a vehicular portable structure designed and constructed to be primarily used for recreational purposes or for the purpose of a temporary dwelling used for travel, recreation, or vacation. Recreational vehicles may include, but are not limited to, trailers, boats, jet skis and other personal watercraft, snowmobiles, and the following uses:

   •   "Travel trailer" means a non-self-propelled recreational vehicle, including tent type fold-out camping trailer or a fifth wheel.

   •   "Motor home" means a self-propelled recreational vehicle constructed with permanently installed facilities for cold storage, cooking and consuming of food, and sleeping.

   •   "Truck camper" means a non-self-propelled recreational vehicle without wheels for road use and designed to be placed upon and attached to a pick-up style body. The term "truck camper" does not include truck covers, which consist of walls and roofs but do not have floors and facilities for use as a dwelling.

   •   "Van with luggage rack" means a van with a luggage rack and/or extended top larger than a permitted residential vehicle.

Vehicular Use Area

The entire paved area encompassing all parking spaces, loading areas, waiting spaces, and the access drives that provide access to those spaces, but that does not include the entry drive or driveway with no direct access to a parking space, waiting space, or loading space. For residential uses, the vehicular use area shall include the driveway, garage, and any other parking areas.

Village

Sheffield Village, Ohio

Village Administrator

The Village Administrator for Sheffield Village, Ohio. The individual designated to oversee the administrator of this code unless otherwise stated.

Village Council

Village Council or Council means the legislative body of Sheffield Village, Ohio

Village Engineer

The Village Engineer for Sheffield Village, Ohio. This may include consultants hired by the Village to serve as the Village Engineer.

Violation

The failure of a structure or other development to be fully compliant with the regulations of this code.

Waiting Space

A portion of the vehicular use area on a site that is dedicated to the temporary storage or "standing" of vehicles engaged in drive-through use of the site or development.

Wall

An architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure.

Wall, Retaining

A retaining wall is a structure that holds back soil or rock from a building, structure, or area. Retaining walls prevent downslope movement or erosion and provide support for vertical or near-vertical grade changes.

Warehouses

A business establishment primarily engaged in the long-term storage (over thirty (30) days) of goods and merchandise within a single building (not individual compartments) that may contain loading and unloading docks. Warehouses shall not include any building facade that contains loading docks or garages that occupy more than forty percent (40%) of the facade width. See also "self-storage facilities" or "truck terminals."

Wholesale Establishments

An establishment or place of business primarily engaged in selling merchandise to retailers, including associated showrooms and warehousing; to industrial, commercial, institutions, or professional business users; to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers and buying merchandise for, or selling merchandise to, such individuals or companies.

Windblown Devices

Objects and signs designed to inform or attract attention, all or part of which is set in motion by or remains inflated by wind, mechanical, electrical, or any other means and may include, but are not limited to, pennants, ribbons, streamers, spinners, or similar objects.

Wireless Communications Towers and Antenna

A facility consisting of the equipment and structures involved in receiving telecommunications or radio signals from a mobile radio communications source and transmitting those signals to a central switching computer which connects the mobile unit with the land-based telephone lines for the provision of personal wireless services.

Yard

An open space on the same lot with a building unoccupied and unobstructed by any portion of a structure from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided in this code. See Section 1113.03. for rules of measurement and determination for all yard types.

Yard, Front

Unless otherwise stated in Section 1113.03, a front yard is an open space extending the full width of the lot, the depth of which is the minimum horizontal distance between the front lot line and the nearest point of the main building.

Yard, Rear

Unless otherwise stated in Section 1113.03, a rear yard is an open space extending the full width of the lot, the depth of which is the minimum horizontal distance between the rear lot line and the nearest point of the main building.

Yard, Side

Unless otherwise stated in Section 1113.03, a side yard is an open space between a main building and the side lot line, extending from the front yard to the rear yard, the width of which is the horizontal distance from the nearest point of the side lot line to the nearest point of the main building.

Zoning Administrator

The Zoning Administrator for Sheffield Village, Ohio. The individual designated to enforce this code, unless otherwise stated.

Zoning Compliance Review

A building permit or authorization to proceed issued by the Village Administrator stating that a proposed development or activity complies with this code as established in Section 1105.06.

Zoning District

An area within the Village limits for which the regulations and requirements governing use are uniform as established by Section 1107.02.

Zoning District, Base

The base zoning district is the zoning district established for each property that includes any of the residential and nonresidential zoning districts established in Section 1107.02.

Zoning District, Nonresidential

The term "nonresidential zoning district" shall include the C-2, C-3, C-4, I-1, and P-I Districts, regardless if residential uses are permitted.

Zoning District, Overlay

A special secondary zoning district that lies over an underlying base zoning district. For this code, such an overlay district provides for the creation of a Planned Unit Development that has a specific development plan approved for the location where the overlay district is applied.

Zoning District, Residential

The term "residential zoning district" shall include the R and M-1 Districts.

Zoning Map

An accurate map depicting Sheffield Village, Ohio, and indicating the official boundaries of the zoning districts established by this code. See Section 1107.03.

(Ord. 2879. Passed 10-23-23.)

CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD VILLAGE