A subordinate building, detached from the main use building, which has a use obviously incidental to the main land use. In any residential district this building may not be used for commercial purposes.

A room or suite of rooms arranged, designed or occupied as a residence by a family or an individual.

Shall include only the area within the property lines excluding any portion of the streets or alley.

Any structure designed for the support, shelter, or any enclosure of any persons, animals, chattels or property.

A line which is parallel or nearly parallel to the street and beyond which buildings may not be built.

Any vehicle or similar portable structure that is used as a sleeping or living quarters while the occupants are on a trip or vacation and will be used only as a temporary quarters. If such a trailer is used within the city as regular sleeping or living quarters, it must be designated as a mobile home.

A vehicle storage building that does not have any door, gate or fence obstructing the entrance way into the shed and which has no more than two (2) sides enclosed.

An occupation carried on in the home by the occupant or a member of his family which will require no structural alteration to the building or any of its rooms, without the installation of machinery or equipment other than that used for the normal operation of the home. There may be no employment of additional persons who do not live on the premises, or use of advertising signs. The use shall not cause additional traffic congestion on the street.

This means horizontal distance between the front lot line and the front building line.

This means horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines.

This means horizontal distance between the rear line of a building other than an accessory building and the rear lot line.

An area of the city in which use, area, height and other regulations are uniform.

A building or portion thereof designed for the residential use of one (1), two (2) or multiple families; not including hotels, motels boarding, rooming or lodging houses.

Any number of people living together as a single housekeeping unit otherwise legally recognized as a family in which no more than four (4) individuals are unrelated by blood.

The floor area of a building shall be measured by taking the outside wall dimensions of the building at each floor level, excluding the basement.

The line of the lot adjacent to the street on interior lots. On corner lots it is the extension of the lot line of the adjacent interior lot.

An accessory building or portion of the main residence building which is designed for the storage of automobiles and other noncommercial vehicles having a door and/or three (3) enclosed walls.

The height of a building or portion of a building shall be measured from the average grade established at the street lot line or from the average natural ground level, to the highest point of the roof's surface if a flat surface; to the deckline of mansard roofs; and to the main height level between eaves and ridge for hip and gable roofs. The following structures shall not be considered in measuring height: chimneys, cooling towers, elevator bulkheads, penthouses, tanks, water towers, ornamental domes or spires and parapet walls not more than eight feet (8') tall.

An institution or place where sick or injured inpatients are given medical or surgical care. This shall not include hospitals for alcoholics, narcotics, insane, feebleminded or for animals.

A building which is occupied as a more or less temporary abiding place with no provisions for cooking in the individual rooms, in which there are more than twelve (12) sleeping rooms, a public dining room with accommodations for more than twelve (12) guests and central kitchen.

Land occupied or to be occupied by a main use building and its accessory buildings, including yards and other open space requirements as set up by this article, and having its frontage upon a public street or officially approved place, and also adjoining an alley.

The percentage of the total lot area covered by the first floor of the main building plus accessory buildings located on the lot.

The lines bounding a lot as defined herein.

Any vehicle or similar portable structure, used as a sleeping or living quarters mounted on wheels or designed to be mounted on wheels for transportation.

A group of attached or detached buildings containing individual sleeping or living units for twelve (12) or more individuals or groups. Each unit must have an adjoining or conveniently located parking space.

A building, structure or use of land lawfully occupied at the time of the effective date of this article or amendments thereto, and which does not conform to the use regulations of the district in which it is located.

An area of not less than one hundred eighty (180) square feet (approximately nine feet (9') by twenty feet (20')) not on a public street or alley, surfaced with an all-weather surface, enclosed or not enclosed, together with an all-weather surface driveway connecting the parking space with a public street or alley, allowing free entrance and exit. This shall not include parking for trucks or buses for commercial purposes.

Area included in any side, rear or front yard or any unoccupied space on a lot that is open and unobstructed to the sky, except for the ordinary projections of cornices, eaves or porches.

Those lines which bound a lot excluding any rights-of-way or other portions of public property.

The line of the lot opposite the front lot line.

A building for public or private social, educational and recreational activities of a neighborhood or community provided that the building is not operated for commercial gain.

An accessory building used for the storing of property incidental to the main use of the land.

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

A public way which serves as the primary means of access to the abutting property.

Any change in the supporting member of a building, such as bearing wall, column, beam or girder.

The purpose for which land or a building is arranged, designed or intended, or for which either land or a building is or may be occupied or maintained.

This means horizontal distance between the side lot lines.

This means horizontal distance between the side wall of a building and the side lot line.

An open, unoccupied space other than a court, on the lot where a building is located and which is unobstructed from the ground to the sky.