9.1
Accessory building and use: Subordinate building or a portion of the main building, the use of which is incidental to that of the primary use, the main building or land, and is not used for a place of habitation or a living room, kitchen, dining room, sitting room, bedroom, or library. An accessory use is incidental to the main or primary use of the premises. A swimming pool is an accessory use.

9.2
Adult businesses

9.2a
Adult theater: Any place or establishment that as a substantial or significant portion of its business features or provides for viewing on site (i) films, motion pictures, video or audio cassettes, slides, or other visual representations or recordings that are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on the exposure, depiction, or description of specified anatomical areas, or the conduct or simulation of specified sexual activities; or (ii) live performances that are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on the exposure, depiction, or description of specified anatomical areas or the conduct or simulation of specified sexual activities. Adult theaters offering viewing of film, photograph material or live performances to audiences smaller in size than five persons per seating, are expressly prohibited.

9.2b
Adult cabarets: Any place or establishment that has a substantial or significant portion of its business features or provides any of the following:

(1)

Persons who appear semi-nude, or

(2)

Live performances that are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on the exposure, depiction, or description of specified anatomical areas or the conduct or simulation of specified sexual activities, or

(3)

Films, motion pictures, video or audio cassettes, slides, computer displays, or other visual representations or recordings of any kind that are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on the exposure, depiction, or description of specified anatomical areas, or the conduct or simulation of specified sexual activities, or,

9.2c
Adult store: Any place or establishment which sells, offers for sale or rents, for any form of consideration, any one or more of the following:

(1)

Books, magazines, periodicals, or other printed matter, or photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or other visual representations or recordings, novelties and devices, which have as their primary or dominant theme, matter depicting, illustrating, describing or relating to specific sexual activities or specified anatomical areas; or

(2)

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

9.2d
Specified anatomical areas:

(1)

Less than completely and opaquely covered:

a.

Human genitals or pubic region;

b.

Human buttocks;

c.

Human female breasts below a point immediately above the top of the areola; and

(2)

Human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered.

9.2e
Specified sexual activities:

(1)

Human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation, arousal or swelling;

(2)

Acts of human anilingus, bestiality, buggery, cunnilingus, coprophagy, coprophilia, fellatio, flagellation, masochism, masturbation, necrophilia, pederasty, pedophilia, sadism, sadomasochism, sapphism, sexual intercourse, sodomy, urolagnia or zooerasty;

(3)

Fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus or female breast; and

(4)

Excretory functions as part of or in connection with any of the activities set forth in subsections (1) through (3) of this subsection.

9.2f
Escort: A person who, for compensation, agrees or offers to engage in any of the following acts:

(1)

Privately to model lingerie with the intention of and for the purpose of providing sexual stimulation or sexual gratification to the customer.

(2)

Privately to disrobe for another person with the intention of and for the purpose of providing sexual stimulation or sexual gratification to the customer.

(3)

Agrees to come to a specified location for the purpose of disrobing and for the purpose of providing sexual stimulation or sexual gratification to the customer.

(4)

To perform a massage for the purpose of providing sexual stimulation or sexual gratification to the customer.

9.2g
Escort agency: A person or business association who, whether on or off the licensed premises, furnishes, offers to furnish, or advertises to furnish escorts, as defined herein, for compensation.

9.2f
Agent: A person who is authorized by the parcel owner to act on his/her/its behalf.

9.3
Agriculture: A farm of ten acres or more for the production of crops and livestock including greenhouse and nurseries for the raising of plants and sale of farm products raised on the premises but shall not be construed to mean the commercial processing of farm products such as slaughterhouses, canning plants, feed mills, etc.

9.3a
Architectural metal panel: A metal panel of 26 gauge or heavier which is embossed or prefinished and which has the appearance of masonry, stucco, or any approved design approved by the planning department.

9.3a1
Automotive repair and maintenance: An establishment primarily engaged in the repair or maintenance of motor vehicles, trailers, and similar mechanical equipment, including brake, muffler, upholstery work, tire repair and change, lubrication, tune ups, and transmission work, provided all activities are conducted within a completely enclosed building.

9.3a2
Automotive body and paint repair: Establishments primarily engaged in repairing or customizing automotive vehicle and trailer bodies and interiors; and/or painting automotive vehicles and trailer bodies.

9.3b
Bed and breakfast. Establishments primarily engaged in providing short-term lodging in facilities known as bed-and-breakfast inns. These establishments provide short-term lodging in private homes or buildings meeting the minimum habitable requirements set out in the International Residential Code, converted for this purpose. Bed-and-breakfast inns are characterized by highly personalized service and inclusion of breakfast in the room rate (North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), NAICS number 721191).

9.4
Board means the board of adjustment established in part 7.

9.4a
Boat: A vehicle for traveling in or on the water, not exceeding 32 feet in body length, eight feet in width, or 12 feet in overall height from ground level. If the boat is mounted on a trailer, height limit also includes the trailer.

9.4b
Book Box: Also known as a Little Free Library, typically a customized wooden box of books installed by a property owner or with the property owner's permission on a post, which provides for free book exchange on site and shall not involve transport off-site for processing or redistribution, or both.

9.5
Building: Any structure designed or built or used for the support, enclosure, shelter or protection of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind.

9.5a
Building Official: The Chief Building Official and her/his successor in title and her/his designees.

9.5b
Business complex: A commercial development containing one or more tenants sharing common access, parking, or other amenities. In such circumstances, where a commercial development shares common access, parking, etc., the following guidelines shall be utilized to determine whether a particular building, set of buildings, or parcel of land constitutes one or more complexes:

(1)

Leasehold interest alone shall not allow a particular building, set of buildings, or parcel to constitute an additional complex.

(2)

Each lot legally platted prior to October 31, 1984, shall constitute a separate complex.

(3)

Lots legally platted after October 31, 1984, shall not constitute separate complexes.

9.6
City council: City council of Slidell.

9.7
Commission: Planning and zoning commissions of Slidell.

9.7a
Community recreation: Refers to recreational, social, or multipurpose uses typically associated with parks, playfields, golf courses, or community recreation buildings.

9.7a1.
Crematory: The building or portion of a building that houses the cremation retort for the reduction of bodies of deceased persons to cremated human remains.

9.7a2.
Crematory retort: A vessel or chamber in which substances are distilled or decomposed by heat.

9.7b
Cultural exhibits and library services: Refers to museum-like preservation and exhibition of objects in one or more of the arts and sciences, gallery exhibition of works of art, or library collection of books, manuscripts, etc., for study and reading.

9.7c
Day care centers, preschools, nursery schools: Refers to facilities authorized to provide supervisory or day care services licensed for such activities by the State of Louisiana.

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

9.8a
Donated/collected material: Any salvageable personal property, such as clothing and books and household items that is collected for periodic transport off-site for processing or redistribution or both.

9.8b
Duplex: A structure containing two dwelling units, each of which has direct access to the outside. Also known as a two-family unit or double.

9.9
Dwelling: A building or part of a building, containing living, sleeping, housekeeping accommodations, and sanitary facilities for occupancy by one or more families.

9.9a
Elementary and secondary schools: Refers to public and private elementary and secondary schools having a general education curriculum.

9.9b
Essential services: Refers to public services which are necessary to support principal use type development and involves only minor structures such as lines and poles, phone booths, and mailboxes, which are necessary to support principal development.

9.10
Family: One or more people occupying a premise and living as a single housekeeping unit.

9.10a
Food Pantry: Similar to a Book Box, typically a customized wooden box of non-perishable food items installed by a property owner or with the property owner's permission on a post, which provides for free non-perishable food item exchange on site and shall not involve transport off-site for processing or redistribution, or both.

9.10b
Funeral establishment/home: Any place or premises duly licensed by the Louisiana State Board of Embalmers and Board of Mortuary and Funeral Directors and devoted to or used in the care and preparation for disposition of the body of deceased person or maintained or held out to the public by advertising or otherwise as the office or place for the practice of funeral directing.

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

9.11a
Group home: Refers to services provided by facilities certified or licensed by the state for the personal care or supervisory care of five to 15 individuals not related by blood, marriage or adoption. These facilities provide supervisory or personal care of individuals who are mentally or physically handicapped requiring supervision in a noninstitutional family home setting.

9.12
Home occupations: As defined in part 2, section 2.2214 of the zoning ordinance.

9.12a.1.
Hospitals: An institution providing primary health services and medical or surgical care to persons, primarily inpatients, suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity and other abnormal physical or mental conditions, and including as an integral part of the institution, related facilities such as laboratories, outpatient facilities, professional offices and training facilities.

9.12a.2.
Housekeeping: The management of a home and the work to be done in it, such as cleaning and cooking.

9.12a
Kennel, commercial: Any establishment within the city limits of Slidell which maintains more than 12 domestic animals in any combination, and which is operated primarily for commercial boarding, breed, buying, selling or rearing of animals. Animal hospitals operated by a licensed veterinarian, pet stores and animal shelters operated by a public jurisdiction are hereby declared exempt from this definition. Commercial kennels cannot be located in a residential zone and must be located within the proper commercial zone as set forth by current zoning laws of the City of Slidell.

9.12b
Kennel, private: Any person(s) who maintains more than a total of six domestic animals over the age of four months on a residential property within the city limits of Slidell; said animals can be in any combinations.

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

9.13a
Lodge, fraternal, and civic service organizations: Refers to meetings and activities primarily conducted for their members. Excluded from this type are uses classified as group residential, group care, and transient habitation (all types). Typical uses include meeting places for civic clubs, lodges, or fraternal or veteran organizations.

9.14
Lot: A plot, parcel or tract of land with fixed boundaries, adequate for occupancy by a permitted use, together with such yards or open spaces within the lot lines as may be required by the Slidell zoning ordinance, and fronting upon a public street. A lot is intended as a unit for the transfer of ownership or for building development, or both, including the development of one ownership with two or more buildings for separate occupancy, except or provided for townhouses.

9.15
Lot corner: A lot which abuts two or more streets at their intersection, or upon a curved street, provided that the two sides of the lot intersect to form an interior angle of not more than 135 degrees.

9.16
Lot depth: The distance between front and rear lot lines. If these lines are not parallel, the mean dimension shall be deemed to be the lot depth.

9.17
Lot, double frontage: A lot which runs through a block from street to street and which has frontage on each street.

9.18
Lot, interior: A lot which is not a corner lot.

9.19
Lot line, front: The front line of an interior lot is the line separating the lot from the street or easement of principal access. The front lot line of a corner lot shall be the lot line with the least frontage.

9.20
Lot line, rear: The rear lot line is the boundary opposite and generally parallel to the front lot line. The rear lot line of a triangular or irregularly shaped lot shall be for the purpose of this ordinance a line not less than ten feet long, lying wholly within the lot, more or less parallel to and the greatest distance from the front lot line.

9.21
Lot line side: A side lot line is any lot boundary line not a front line or a rear lot line. A side lot line separating a lot from a street line is an exterior side lot line. Any other side lot line is an interior side lot line.

9.22
Lot width: The width of the lot at the building setback line measured parallel to the street right-of-way line, or measured at the street line if no front yard is required.

9.22a
Minor impact utilities: Refers to public utilities which have a local impact on surrounding properties and are necessary to provide essential services. Typical uses are electrical and gas distribution substations, and radio, microwave, and telephone transmitters.

9.22b
Municipal government services: Refers to those facilities operated by the City of Slidell.

9.22c
Mixed use development: A blend of residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment uses into one space, where those functions are physically and functionally integrated, and provides pedestrian connections. Typically, multi-family use is located above commercial use.

9.22d
Manufacturing: the mechanical, physical, or chemical transformation of materials and substances, or components into new products or the assembly of component parts of manufactured products.

9.22e
Manufacturing, Heavy: the manufacture or compounding process of raw materials where activities or processes necessitate the storage of large volumes of highly flammable, toxic matter or explosive materials needed for the manufacturing process and where activities may involve outdoor operations.

9.22f
Manufacturing, Light: the product processing, fabricating, assembly, disassembly, and packaging takes place wholly within an enclosed building, and any fumes, gases, smokes, vapors, vibrations, noise or glare or other factors which are regarded as nuisances are mitigated entirely within the building.

9.22g
Multiplex: A building or portion thereof, designed exclusively for occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other in individual dwelling units.

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

9.23a
Ordinary high water mark: That line on the shore established by the fluctuations of water and indicated by the physical characteristics such as a clear, natural line impressed on the bank, shelving, changes in character of soil, destruction of vegetation, the presence of litter and debris, or other appropriate means that consider the characteristics of surrounding area (33 CFR Part 328, Section 328.3).

9.24
Parking space: One automobile parking space shall be an area not less than nine feet by 20 feet, and the access to the parking space for a public street or alley shall be provided in addition to the space necessary for parking, a total space of 400 square feet in area per car when parking is on one side of an access driveway and 300 square feet in area per car when parking is along both sides of an access driveway.

9.25
Planned district: A planned district shows in detail the manner in which the land will be used by designating the type and location of buildings, roadways, off-street parking, service areas, set back requirements, landscaping and character of a development in conformance with requirements of all other parish ordinances, minimum area, and specific districts of the zoning ordinance.

9.26
Planning commission: It shall act as a zoning commission at such time as this ordinance shall go into effect.

9.26a
Principal building: A building that is occupied by a principal use.

9.26b
Principal use: A use that fulfills a primary function of an establishment, institution, household, or other entity.

9.26c
Property owner: The owner of a lot or parcel. An entity that only owns a building and not the lot that the building is situated on is the "building owner" not the "property owner" for the purpose of this Code.

9.26d
Public safety services: Refers to the providing of protection by a district or entity pursuant to fire, life, and safety code sections together with the incidental storage and maintenance of necessary vehicles. Typical uses include fire stations, police stations, ambulance services.

9.27
Recreation use: An area offering recreational facilities to the public for boating, boat launching, fishing, swimming, picnicking, camping, outdoor games, horseback riding, parks, playgrounds, and may include community centers.

9.27a
Recreational vehicle: A vehicular unit not exceeding 32 feet in overall length, eight feet in width, or 12 feet in overall height from ground level, primarily designated as a temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use; it either has its own motive power or is designed to be mounted on or drawn by a motorized vehicle. Recreational vehicle includes motor home, truck camper, travel trailer and camping trailer.

9.28
Region: Governmental area covered by this ordinance.

9.28a
Religious assembly: Refers to religious services involving public assembly such as customarily occur in synagogues, temples, and churches.

9.28a(1)
Rooming house: A building where lodging is provided for rent for more than one consecutive week.

9.28b
Senior service centers: Facilities providing meals, education, entertainment and social services to the elderly.

9.28c
Setback: The minimum distance away from a property line where buildings may be constructed, a building line; usually a line parallel to the front property line.

9.29
Shelter for victims of domestic violence: Refers to a State of Louisiana licensed residential facility, operated by a nonprofit social service corporation, which serves as a temporary safe-house for victims of domestic violence and provides shelter, meals, childcare, and counseling to such victims. Such a facility may be no closer than 3½ miles to any similar facility, shall have a residential character and appearance typical of other residential structures in the area, and shall be located on a lot having no less than 15,000 square feet of lot area and at least one hard-surfaced, off-street parking space for each four occupants.

9.29a
Shopping center: A commercial development having at least 5,000 square feet and/or at least three tenants sharing common access, parking and other amenities.

In such circumstances where a commercial development has at least 5,000 square feet and/or three tenants sharing common access, parking, etc., the following guidelines shall be utilized to determine whether a particular building, set of buildings, or parcel of land constitutes one or more shopping centers:

(1)

Leasehold interest alone shall not allow a particular building or parcel to constitute an additional shopping center.

(2)

Each lot legally platted prior to October 31, 1984, shall constitute a separate shopping center.

(3)

Lots legally platted after October 31, 1984, shall not constitute separate shopping centers.

9.29b
Single-family dwelling: A residential building designed exclusively for and occupied exclusively by one family.

9.30
Street line or right-of-way line: The dividing line between a lot, its property line or lines, and a public right-of-way, a public street, road, or highway, or a private street, road, or highway over which two or more abutting owners have an easement or right-of-way.

9.30a
Structure: Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires more or less permanent or semipermanent location on the ground or the attachment to something having a permanent location on the ground. This includes, but is not limited to, buildings, gasoline pumps, advertising signs, billboards, fences, vending machines, radio and TV towers, mobile homes and sheds. It excludes vehicles, sidewalks, streets, driveways, parking areas and patios.

9.30a1
Student housing: A structure specifically designed for a long-term stay by a college, university, or nonprofit organization including rooms for student sleeping. A common kitchen and gathering rooms for social purposes may also be provided.

9.30b
Methadone centers or clinics: A methadone center or clinic sponsored or operated by a nonprofit, charitable, or for-profit entity or by a public agency and subject to licensure by the State of Louisiana whose purpose is the dispensing of controlled substances in connection with or related to the rehabilitation of drug abusers.

9.30b1
Townhouse or rowhouse: Incudes between three and eight dwelling units located within a single structure, contiguous to each other, sharing one common bearing wall, and including a separate front and rear entrance for each unit.

9.31
Trailer: A vehicle without motive power, designed so that it can be drawn by a motor vehicle.

9.31a
Trailer, manufactured housing: A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which is 12 body feet or more in width and 60 body feet or more in length,built on a permanent chassis, and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein. This structure type is not built to ICS standards; it is permitted in accordance with minimum HUD requirements.

9.31b
Trailer park: A parcel of land under single ownership which has been planned and improved for the placement of trailers and manufactured housing.

9.31c
Trailer-semi: A freight trailer that when attached, is supported at its forward end by the fifth wheel device of the truck trailer.

9.31d
Trailer, travel: A vehicular, portable structure built on a chassis designed as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreation, and vacation use with a body width not exceeding eight feet and a body length not exceeding 32 feet.

9.31e
Transient habitation, lodging: Lodging services involving the provision of room and/or board for a period of less than a month. Typical uses include hotels, motels or transient boardinghouses.

9.31f
Unattended donation/collection boxes or UDCB: Unstaffed drop-off boxes, containers, receptacles, or similar facilities that accept textiles, shoes, books and/or other salvageable personal property items that may be used by the operator for distribution, resale, or recycling. Having one or more staff on location for less than eight hours per each 24-hour period is considered unstaffed.

9.31g
UDCB operator or operator: A person or entity who utilizes or maintains an UDCB to solicit donations/collections of salvageable personal property. If an UDCB is operated to solicit, in whole or in part, for a third party with whom the operator has an agreement to solicit, both the owner/operator of the box and the third party on whose behalf items are being solicited shall be considered an operator of the UDCB.

9.31h
UDCB permit: The City of Slidell's annual permit required to place, operate, maintain, or allow an UDCB within the city limits.

9.31i
Unpermitted UDCB: An UDCB established either without an UDCB permit or with an invalid UDCB permit, such as an UDCB permit that was issued in error or on the basis of incorrect or incomplete information supplied, or in violation of any law, ordinance, rule, or regulation.

9.32
Yard: A required open space unoccupied and unobstructed by any structure or portion of a structure from six inches above the general ground level of the graded lot upward; provided, however, that fences and walls may be permitted in any yard subject to height limitations as indicated herein.

9.33
Yard, front: That part of a lot between the front lot line and the front(s) of the principal building on the lot, and extending to both side lot lines. In case of through lots, unless the prevailing front yard pattern on adjoining lots indicates otherwise, front yards shall be provided on all frontages.

9.34
Yard, front depth: Depth of required front yards shall be measured at right angles to a straight line joining the foremost points of the side lot lines. The foremost points of the side lot lines, in the case of rounded property corners at street intersections shall be assumed to be the point at which the side and front lot lines would have met without such rounding. Front and rear front yard lines shall be parallel.

9.35
Yard, rear: That part of a lot between the rear lot line and the back(s) of the principal building on the lot, and extended to both side lot lines.

9.35a
Yard, rear depth: Depth of required rear yards shall be measured at right angles to a straight line joining the rearmost points of the side lot lines. The forward rear yard line of a required rear yard shall be parallel to the straight line so established.

9.36
Yard, side: That part of a lot not surrounded by building and not in the front or rear yard.

9.37
Yard, side width: Width of required side yards shall measure at right angles to a straight line joining the ends of front and rear lot lines on the same side of the lot. This inner side yard line of the required side yard shall be parallel to the straight line so established.

9.38
Mini-warehouse or mini-storage: A building or group of buildings containing individual storage units rented or leased to individuals for the storage of merchandise, commodities or private property.

(Ord. No. 893, 12-12-1972; Ord. No. 1066, 5-23-1978; Ord. No. 1219, 11-13-1979; Ord. No. 1490, 2-24-1982; Ord. No. 1494, 3-23-1982; Ord. No. 1545, 9-28-1982; Ord. No. 1721, 6-12-1984; Ord. No. 1759, 9-25-1984; Ord. No. 1762, 10-9-1984; Ord. No. 1932, 4-22-1986; Ord. No. 2168, 2-23-1988; Ord. No. 2416, 1-14-1992; Ord. No. 2466, 8-31-1992; Ord. No. 2478, 11-10-1992; Ord. No. 2504, 5-25-1993; Ord. No. 2950, 6-27-2000; Ord. No. 2965, 10-24-2000; Ord. No. 3366, 12-19-2006; Ord. No. 3478, 6-10-2008; Ord. No. 3674, 3-12-2013; Ord. No. 3964, 11-12-2019; Ord. No. 3968, § 1, 12-17-2019; Ord. No. 4091, § 2, 7-26-2022; Ord. No. 4105, § 3, 11-29-2022; Ord. No. 4175, Exh. 1, 5-28-2024; Ord. No. 4189, 8-27-2024)