As applied to a building or use which is customarily incidental and subordinate to and serves a principal building or principal use.

Any operable tool, instrument, utensil, device, equipment, machine, or appliance used in the practice of agricultural or farming activities.

The use of a parcel of land for gain in raising and production of produce, including but not limited to crops, fruit, livestock, poultry, dairy products, nursery products or horticultural plants.

As applied to a building or structure, the change or rearrangement in the supporting members of a building or structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders, or in the existing facilities; an enlargement of a building or structure, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height; the moving from one location or position to another; or any change whereby a structure is adapted to another or different use.

A system of electrical conductors that converts electrical energy into radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of transmitting or receiving communications or data.

A tower that carries one or more antennas and the overall tower height of which is 100.0 feet or less.

A tower that carries one or more antennas and the overall tower height of which is more than 100 feet.

A multiple dwelling comprised of dwelling units which are offered for occupancy for periods of 30 days or more.

The authorization by the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of South Bristol for the use of land in a manner which is not allowed by the dimensional or topographical requirements of this chapter.

See "fabrication."

See "yard, rear."

A building or structure used for the storage or sheltering of vehicles, livestock, crops, machinery or other items accessory to the primary use of the property.

That space of a building that is partly below grade, which has 1/2 or more of its height, measured from floor to ceiling, above the average finished grade.

A rechargeable energy storage system consisting of batteries, battery chargers, controls, power conditioning systems and associated electrical equipment. The system is typically used to provide standby or emergency power, an uninterruptable power supply, load shedding, load sharing, smoothing and dispatching of intermittent renewable energy sources, or similar capabilities. A battery energy storage system is classified as a Tier 1, Tier 2, or Tier 3 battery energy storage system as follows:

An electronic system that protects batteries from operating outside their safe operating parameters and generates an alarm and trouble signal for off-normal conditions.

An owner-occupied one-family dwelling used for providing overnight accommodations and a morning meal to not more than 10 transient lodgers, containing not more than five rentable bedrooms for such lodgers.

The Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of South Bristol.

A multiple dwelling used primarily for the purpose of furnishing lodging, with or without meals, to not more than 15 transient occupants, for compensation.

Strips of land covered with grass, vegetation, trees, embankments, or berms (excluding any habitable area and intended to provide a neutral land use between other land uses).

See "erect."

Anything constructed or erected having a roof supported by columns or by walls and intended for shelter, housing, protection or enclosure of persons, animals, or property. Depending upon its applicability, the use herein of "building" shall include the term "structure."

The aggregate of the areas of all enclosed and roofed spaces of the principal building and all accessory buildings. Such areas shall be computed by using outside dimensions.

The vertical dimension measured from the mean elevation of the finished grade to the highest point of the roof or to the highest point of any structure above the roof. Mean elevation shall be determined by adding the highest and lowest elevations and dividing by two.

See "lot."

See "Code Enforcement Officer."

The authorization of the development, construction, extension, or use of land and/or buildings in conformance with Article 18 of the Executive Law of New York State (Uniform Code Act) and this chapter.

One or more rooms in a building located in a commercial or industrial zone, or in a dwelling with a home occupation, from which a business is supervised, managed or clerically conducted.

A building designed or used for temporary accommodations for one or more persons for recreational purposes, but not meeting the requirements of a "dwelling."

A parcel of land used or intended to be used, let or rented on a commercial basis for transient, vacation and recreational occupancy of cabins, tents, registered travel trailers, campers, recreational vehicles, motor homes, vessels and the motor vehicles propelling or carrying the same, but excluding mobile homes designed for year-round occupancy or as a place of residence unless occupied by the owner of such property or his representative.

That space of a building that is partly or entirely below grade, which has more than half of its height, measured from floor to ceiling, below the average level of the finished grade adjoining the building.

A document issued by the Code Enforcement Officer to signify the completion of a permitted construction activity or the installation of equipment and to authorize its use.

A document, issued by the Code Enforcement Officer, listing all of the uses, employments or dimensional aspects that do not conform to this chapter at the time of issue.

A document issued by the Code Enforcement Officer to authorize a permitted activity and/or the use or occupancy of a permitted structure.

A group of dwellings regulated as a planned development in this chapter.

The official designated by the Town Board of the Town of South Bristol to enforce the provisions of the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code and this chapter.

Any employment or use of land or structures that has financial profit or gain as its primary purpose.

A single real estate unit in a multiunit development in which a person has both separate ownership of a unit and an undivided interest in the common elements of the building. Condominium developments are regulated as planned developments, subject to the provisions of § 170-20 of this chapter.

An area where construction equipment and/or materials are being stored for use on the premises and where permitted construction activities are taking place.

An area where construction equipment and or materials are being stored for use off the premises.

The County of Ontario, New York.

Anything that is traditionally practiced or used.

The New York State Department of Health or any other health board or department established pursuant to the laws of the State of New York and having authority for the regulation of matters pertaining to the public health of the Town.

An antenna which contains a dish-shaped reflector.

A private road.

An access lane used or intended to be used by motor vehicles connecting a structure or any other point in a lot to a street or road.

A building designed or used as permanent living quarters for one or more persons.

A building or portion thereof providing housekeeping facilities for a single family.

A building consisting of two or more dwelling units which are attached by party walls, and which share a common lot line.

A residential building having yard space all around it.

A residential dwelling unit manufactured off site, other than a mobile home, and approved by the New York State Department of State as a factory manufactured home. A modular home is a manufactured dwelling.

A residential dwelling unit designed for or occupied by three or more families living independently of each other, with the number of families in residence not exceeding the number of dwelling units provided.

A residential dwelling unit designed for or occupied by a single-family, with a minimum of 400 square feet of living area.

A detached building containing no more than two dwellings.

An apartment with one habitable room.

To raise, to build, to construct a building or structure; also, to excavate for a building or to relocate a building by moving it from one location to another.

The erection, construction, alteration, maintenance or utilization by public utilities or any governmental department or commission of underground or overhead gas, electrical or water transmission, distribution, supply or disposal systems, including poles, wires, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, towers, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith, reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies or for the public health, safety or general welfare.

A hole made in the ground, vertically, horizontally or at any angle in between.

The manufacture, construction, assembly or building of a single entity or product from component parts.

One or more persons, related by blood, adoption or marriage, living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit; or any number of persons living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit though not related by blood, adoption or marriage.

See "agriculture or farming activities."

A structure of wood, masonry, plastic, metal or other materials, excluding hedges, which prohibits or inhibits unrestricted travel or view between properties or portions of properties or between the (street) or public right-of-way and a property, artificially erected for the purpose of privacy or protection or for the purpose of limiting ingress and egress by persons or animals.

Any activity which deposits natural or artificial materials so as to modify the surface or subsurface conditions of land, lakes, ponds, and watercourses.

The level where the finished grade of the ground intersects the exterior walls of a building.

The official map on which the Federal Emergency Management Agency has delineated both the areas of special flood hazard and risk premium zones applicable to the Town of South Bristol.

Lands that will flood on the average of every 100 years, as depicted on the Federal Emergency Management Agency Flood Insurance Rate Map for the Town of South Bristol.

See Chapter 88, Flood Damage Prevention, of this Code.

See "lot line, front."

A tank used for the storage and/or distribution of liquid or gaseous fuel.

Any use which depends on a particular location, in terms of topography or proximity to water, in order to perform its intended purpose.

A structure or portion thereof used primarily for the shelter and storage of private passenger vehicles owned or used by the occupants on the lot upon which it is erected.

A structure or portion thereof used primarily for the shelter, storage and/or repair of motor vehicles or other vessel for gain.

The finished surface of the ground adjacent to the exterior wall of a building.

An enclosed structure, admitting natural light, used to grow plants for sale.

Planted or naturally grown material that is intended to prohibit or inhibit unrestricted travel or view between properties or portions of properties or between the street or public right-of-way and a property for the purpose of privacy or protection.

An accessory use of a dwelling unit and/or accessory buildings for gainful employment involving the manufacture or sale of goods and/or services. Such uses shall be secondary to the principal use and shall not change the physical character of the principal structure. Such uses shall not employ more than two full-time equivalent employees other than the members of the immediate family.

A multiple dwelling used primarily for the purpose of furnishing lodging, with or without meals, for more than 15 transient guests, for compensation.

An enclosed structure with a roof, usually but not always used as a dwelling.

Not allowing fluid to pass through, including but not limited to roads, sidewalks, driveways covered with asphalt, concrete, brick, stone, and gravel.

See "waste materials."

A motor vehicle, trailer, recreational vehicle or a part thereof which has been rendered inoperable. (See "waste materials.")

Any premises where junk, waste, discarded or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, sorted, baled, packed, disassembled, handled or abandoned, including automobiles or other vehicles or machinery; wrecking or dismantling yards; house wrecking yards; used lumber yards; places or yards for storage of salvaged house wrecking and structural steel materials and equipment; or where two or more unregistered motor vehicles or any kind of vessel no longer intended or in condition for legal use on the public highways are held, whether for the purpose of resale of used parts therefrom, for the purpose of reclaiming for use some or all the materials therein or for the purpose of disposing of the same for any other purpose. The term "junkyard" shall not include pawnshops and establishments for the sale, purchase or storage of used furniture, household equipment and clothing or for processing of used, discarded or salvaged materials as part of manufacturing operations. (See "waste materials.")

Any premises on which more than four but no more than eight dogs six months old or older are kept, for any purpose, including boarding and/or breeding.

Animals such as, but not limited to, cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, chinchillas, mink and/or poultry.

See "boardinghouse/lodging house."

See Chapter 106, Timber Harvesting.

A parcel of land having a single Tax Map identification number, devoted to a certain use and occupied or capable of being occupied by a building or group of buildings that are united by common interest or use. The terms "plat" and "parcel" are included in this definition.

The square footage or acreage contained within the boundaries of a lot. Any portion of a lot included in a street shall not be included in calculating lot area. Any portion of a lot included in a drive shall be included in calculating lot area.

The total area of a lot or parcel covered by impervious and substantially impervious surfaces and/or structures on or proposed to be permanently located on a lot. Impervious and substantially impervious surfaces and structures shall include, but not be limited to, buildings (both primary and accessory), sidewalks, decks, patios, swimming pools, stairs, landings, retaining walls, planters or planting boxes, freestanding solar panels, driveways and parking areas (including gravel, paved, or brick), buildings and roof overhangs, sheds, pavilions, gazebos, awnings, tennis courts, and any other paved, gravel or constructed surface or structure on or proposed to be permanently located on the lot or parcel. Lot coverage will include all areas above the mean high-water mark of 689.4 feet above sea level. NOTE: 50% of all man-made pervious/permeable surfaces will be counted towards total lot coverage.

The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines measured in the general direction of the side lot lines. The mean distance shall be calculated by adding the shortest distance and the longest distance and dividing by two. For a corner lot, the lot depth shall be the distance between the shortest front lot line and the side lot line opposite it.

The length of the front lot line or lines.

The property lines bounding the lot.

A lot described by metes and bounds and recorded in the office of the Ontario County Clerk.

The distance between side lot lines measured along the required front setback line of a lot and parallel to a front lot line. For a corner lot, the lot width shall be the distance between the longest front lot line and the side lot line opposite it.

A parcel of land at the intersection of and fronting on two or more public streets. For purposes of zoning, a corner lot has two front yards, two side yards and no back yard.

A lot bordered by two or more public streets, other than a corner lot. For the purposes of zoning, a through lot has two front yards, two side yards and no back yard.

A functionally dependent, commercial establishment providing accommodations or facilities for watercraft, including mooring, docking, storing, leasing, sale or servicing of watercraft, located adjacent to Canandaigua Lake.

A simple or latticework pole, permanently attached to the ground or to a structure, intended to support an antenna or from which a flag may be flown.

Be permitted to do, but not obligated to do. In contrast to "shall," "may" is permissive.

The location where the mean high-water level intersects with the shoreline of the adjacent upland parcel.

Any parcel of land used for excavation from which a mineral is to be produced for sale or exchange, or for commercial, industrial or municipal use.

Any naturally formed, usually inorganic, solid material located on or below the surface of the earth. For the purposes of this chapter, peat and topsoil shall be considered minerals.

The extraction of overburden and minerals from the earth; the preparation and processing of minerals, including any activities or processes or parts thereof for the extraction or removal of minerals from their original location, and the preparation, washing, cleaning, crushing, stockpiling or other processing of minerals at the mine location so as to make them suitable for commercial, industrial, or construction use, exclusive of manufacturing processes, at the mine location; the removal of such materials through sale or exchange or for commercial, industrial or municipal use; and the disposition of overburden, tailings and waste at the mine location. "Mining" shall not include the excavation, removal and disposition of minerals from construction projects, exclusive of the creation of water bodies, or excavations in aid of agricultural activities.

A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and which has been approved by HUD pursuant to CFR Title 24, HUD, Chapter XX.

A parcel of land within a mobile home park reserved for placement of a mobile home for the exclusive use of its occupants.

A parcel of land under common ownership on which two or more mobile homes are occupied as residences or which is planned and improved for the placement of two or more mobile homes for nontransient, residential use and as further regulated in this chapter.

That part of a mobile home lot which has been reserved for the placement of a mobile home. The mobile home stand is derived from the area of a mobile home lot which remains after all setbacks are met.

See "dwelling, manufactured."

A multiple dwelling, intended primarily for motorists, not over two stories in height, in which the exit from each dwelling unit or sleeping room is directly to the exterior. Includes but is not limited to the terms "motor court," "motor hotel" and "tourist court."

Any vehicle propelled or drawn by power, other than muscular power, having two or more wheels or at least one track or ski.

Any building or land used to dispense, sell or offer automotive fuels, oils or accessories and also offering the lubrication, washing, waxing, polishing or cleaning and the replacement of minor parts and accessories, including tires, for gain; but not including any major mechanical alterations or repairs, body repair or painting of motor vehicles. (See "garage, public.")

Any gaseous substance, either combustible or noncombustible, which is produced in a natural state from the earth, and which maintains a gaseous or rarefied state at standard temperature and pressure conditions, and/or gaseous components or vapors occurring in or derived from petroleum or other hydrocarbons.

Geologic or geophysical activities related to the search for natural gas, petroleum or other subsurface hydrocarbons, including prospecting, geophysical and geologic seismic surveying and sampling techniques, which include but are not limited to core or rotary drilling or making an excavation in the search and evaluation of natural gas, petroleum, or other subsurface hydrocarbon deposits.

Any solid, semisolid, liquid, semiliquid or gaseous material used in the exploration or extraction of natural gas.

The digging or drilling of a well for the purposes of exploring for, extracting, developing or producing natural gas, petroleum or other subsurface hydrocarbons.

The construction, use, or maintenance of a storage or staging yard, a water or fluid injection station, a water or fluid gathering station, a natural gas or petroleum storage facility, or a natural gas or petroleum gathering line, venting station, or compressor associated with the exploration or extraction of natural gas or petroleum.

Any garbage, refuse, cuttings, sludge, flow-back fluids, produced waters or other discarded materials, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material that results from or is associated with the exploration, drilling or extraction of natural gas and/or petroleum.

A use or employment, a lot or a building or structure that does not conform to the requirements of this chapter for the zoning district in which it is located.

A person who occupies, controls, possesses or uses premises.

To use premises for their intended purposes; to be in possession of or to employ.

Space located for public pickups and deliveries. Required off-street loading space is not to be included as off-street parking space in the computation of required off-street parking areas.

A space for parking an automobile, located on a lot the use of which requires the parking of one or more automobiles, such parking space having access to a street.

Any recreational use or activity not located within a building.

The greater distance from the ground to the tip of the tower, or to the tip of any antenna mounted on top of the tower. If the tower is mounted on a building or structure, the height of that building or structure is included in overall tower height, and overall tower height shall be measured from the lowest elevation of the finished grade adjoining the exterior walls of such building or structure.

All of the earth, vegetation and other materials which lie above or alongside a mineral deposit.

An area designated for which special requirements are established over and above those already specified for the zoning district or districts on which the overlay district is imposed.

A wall on an interior lot line used or adapted for joint service between two buildings or structures.

The total area meeting the definition of lot coverage divided by the total area of that portion of the parcel that is above the mean high-water mark of 689.4 feet above sea level.

Any individual, association, partnership, corporation or firm.

Any place where work is done by one person upon another for that second person's benefit, for pay, such as beauty shops, barbershops, tanning parlors, licensed massage parlors and similar services.

Allowing fluid to pass through into the soil and filter out pollutants, plus recharging the water table and not allowing runoff.

An integrated and coordinated development of a tract of land under single ownership or control which includes one or more principal buildings and uses or combination thereof and is developed in accordance with the regulations prescribed under provisions of this chapter.

The Planning Board of the Town of South Bristol.

Domestic fowl, kept for use on a farm or raised for sale and profit, such as, but not limited to, chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks.

A lot and all buildings and structures thereon.

Main, primary or chief, as in principal use, principal building and similar conjunctions.

A publicly owned project or a privately owned project that is available for use by the public.

A vehicular-type unit primarily designed as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use, which either has its own motive power or is mounted on or drawn by another vehicle.

To move from one location to another.

A person who has a permanent mailing address in the Town of South Bristol.

Any establishment where food is prepared, served at a table or served at a counter, served from a counter, or sold for carryout, for profit.

Sale to the final consumer for direct consumption or use and not for resale.

An open way for vehicles, persons or animals.

A retail outlet, with all related structures, for the sale of horticultural or agricultural products grown primarily on the premises upon which such stand is located, or for the sale of home occupation products.

A sawing machine designed to be transportable and to be employed for the sawing of logs into lumber for a period of not more than 30 days on any lot, except in the Lake Residential (LR) and One-Acre Residential (R-1) Districts where it shall be for a period of not more than 14 days on any lot.

A stationary machine or assembly of machines, installed, constructed or built for the commercial purpose of sawing logs into lumber. Such a mill may include accessory spaces, such as log storage areas and lumber storage areas; machinery and equipment used to debark logs, curing lumber, storage and disposal of sawmill wastes; and other structures and machinery necessary to convert raw logs into finished lumber.

A long or panoramic view of a picturesque natural landscape.

The State Environmental Quality Review Act adopted pursuant to the New York State Environmental Conservation Law (NYCRR Part 617) to incorporate the consideration of environmental factors into the planning, review and decision making processes of governmental agencies.

The shortest horizontal distance from the lot line to the part of the structure or of the story, respectively, which is nearest to such lot line, excluding eaves. In no case shall an eave project more than two feet into the setback.

Intended to be mandatory without exception.

A place where goods and/or services are offered for sale or remuneration, such as a store or a workshop.

Two or more independent commercial enterprises that are located on a single lot or on one or more adjacent lots, or two or more commercial buildings developed as part of a single, integrated development.

Any device intended to attract attention for the purpose of conveying information, including, but not limited to, lettering, numerals, emblems, trademarks, announcements, advertisements and directions. For the purposes of zoning, the term "sign" shall include the message area, surrounding framework and any supporting structures.

An area map, showing the parcel and proposed developments to be reviewed.

The number that is obtained when specific tower height is divided by tower width.

The commercial use of a parcel or part of a parcel of land for celebratory, cultural or educational activities, such as conferences, banquets, festivals, weddings, or other similar activities.

A use that is allowed in a particular district, but only if it meets the conditions and requirements of this chapter.

The distance from the base of the tower to the tip of it, not including the height of any antenna mounted on top of it and not including the height of any building or structure on which the tower may be mounted.

A building or use of land in which any livestock are kept for remuneration, hire or sale.

Anything constructed or erected that consists of one or more flights of stairs, with or without landings, providing access to a building, to a structure, to Canandaigua Lake or to the shore of Canandaigua Lake. Stairways providing access to Canandaigua Lake or to the shore of Canandaigua Lake shall not have any landing exceeding 75 square feet. Stairways, or portions thereof, within 25 feet of the mean high-water line of Canandaigua Lake shall be exempt from rear setbacks. All other stairways shall comply with all setback requirements.

Any place designed for, intended for or used for the keeping, warehousing, putting aside, safekeeping or accumulating of things or materials.

That portion of a building which is between one floor level and the next higher floor level or the roof.

A public road.

Anything constructed or erected with a fixed location on the ground or attached to something having a fixed location on the ground or that creates an impervious surface on the ground. "Structure" includes, but is not limited to, any buildings, paved or blacktopped driveways, parking lots and parking areas, sidewalks, foundations, fences, steps, stairs, decks, patios, aboveground or below-ground storage tanks, wells and well components, both in-ground and aboveground swimming pools, tennis courts, towers, billboards, poster panels, walls, retaining walls of any height, mortared or dry-laid stonework and trams and tram systems.

The line around a structure projected to the ground that is generated by the vertical downward projections from any part of the structure, excluding eaves projecting two feet or less.

A structure intended for bathing, swimming or diving purposes, made of concrete, masonry, metal or other impervious materials, having a depth capacity of over 24 inches and provided with a recirculating and/or controlled water supply.

Referring to a specific, limited period of time. Examples are "temporary use," "temporary construction office" or similar terms.

A structure that has a slenderness ratio of greater than five.

The widest horizontal dimension of a tower, not including any antennas mounted on the tower and offset horizontally from it, and not including any guy wires or cables used to stabilize the tower.

As used in this chapter, the Town of South Bristol, Ontario County, State of New York.

A one-family dwelling joined together by a party wall with more than one other such one-family dwelling but having entrances and exits to exterior yards independent of such other dwellings.

A path through private or public lands, established and maintained for recreational purposes.

A representative example; an accepted standard, model or pattern.

The employment of land or structures.

The authorization by the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of South Bristol for the use or employment of land or structures in a manner that is not allowed by this chapter.

A commercial structure or building used for storage.

Any discarded or unwanted material, such as but not limited to appliances, machinery, vehicles, equipment, cans or other containers, debris, refuse, garbage, trash and rubbish.

The duly appointed person designated by § 1101 of the Public Health Law to inspect and report possible violations under this chapter.

Sale to an intermediary, for resale to another intermediary or to a retail establishment.

A device that converts the kinetic energy of the wind, by the use of a set of rotating blades, into electrical or mechanical power and is usually elevated from ground level on a tower.

The total height of the structure including blades.

The open space of a lot between the principal building(s) and the lot lines.

The open space bounded by a front lot line, the line parallel to the front lot line and passing through the point on the building line closest to the front lot line, and the side lot lines.

The open space bounded by a rear lot line, a line parallel to that rear lot line and passing through that point on the building line that is closest to the rear lot line, and the side lot lines.

The open space bounded by a side lot, the front yard, the rear yard and the building line.

See "Code Enforcement Officer."

The authorization of the development, construction, extension or use of land and/or buildings in conformance with this chapter.