Words used in the present tense include the future; words in the singular number include the plural number; words in the plural number include the singular number; the word “building” includes the word “structure;” the word “lot” includes the word plot; the word “shall” is mandatory and not discretionary.

A subordinate use or building customarily incident to and located on the lot occupied by the main use or building.

A way which extends only secondary means of access to abutting property.

A room or suite of rooms in an apartment house or tenement arranged, designed or occupied as the residence of a single family, individual, or group of individuals.

A building or portion thereof arranged, designed, or occupied by three (3) or more families living independently of each other.

A building other than a hotel where lodging and meals for five (5) or more persons are served for compensation.

A building or group of buildings designed, arranged or used for temporary occupancy having accommodations for housing or parking automobiles in close proximity to the quarters occupied by the owner of such automobile and providing three (3) or more of such quarters.

An area designed and used for the temporary occupation by automobile trailer or tent quarters and providing for one or more of such quarters.

Occupations ordinarily carried on in a home that are not detrimental or injurious to adjoining property. These may include meals or renting rooms to not more than five (5) persons not members of the household, dressmaking, millinery, washing and ironing. Customary home occupations shall not include barbershops, tinners shops, transfer or moving van offices, flower shops, carpenter shops, electricians shops, plumbers shops, radio shops, auto repairing or sign painting.

The mean horizontal distance between the rear line of a building other than an accessory building and the center line of the alley where an alley exists, otherwise the rear lot line.

The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot line.

A section of the city for which the regulations governing the area, height and use of buildings are uniform.

A building used or designed as a residence for three (3) or more families or households, living independently of each other.

Detached or semi-detached dwellings built on one lot, usually in opposing rows separated by a walkway or court.

A detached building having accommodations for and occupied by only one family.

A detached building for separate accommodations for and occupied as, or to be occupied as, a dwelling for only two (2) families.

A family is any number of individuals living together as a single housekeeping unit; as distinguished from a group occupying a boarding house, a lodging house, or both, or hotel as herein defined.

An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a building, between the building and the street extending across the front of the lot.

The gross floor area of an apartment house shall be measured by taking outside dimensions of the apartment building at each floor excluding, however, the floor area of basements or attics when not occupied as living quarters.

A garage with capacity for not more than five (5) motor-driven vehicles for storage only and for private use.

Any premises not a private garage, as defined above, used for housing of more than three (3) motor-driven vehicles or where any such vehicles are repaired for operation, or kept for remuneration, hire or sale.

Any premises, except those defined as a private or public garage, used exclusively for the storage of automobiles.

The height of a building or portion of a building shall be measured from the average established grade at the street lot line or from the average natural ground level, if higher; or if no street grade has been established to the highest point of the roof’s surface if a flat surface to the deck line of mansard roofs; and to the mean height level between eaves and ridge for hip or gable roofs. In measuring the height of a building, the following structures shall be excluded: chimneys, cooling towers, radio towers, ornamental cupolas, domes, or spires, elevator bulk heads, penthouses, tanks, water towers, and parapet walls not exceeding four (4) feet in height.

A building occupied as the more or less temporary abiding place of individuals who are lodged with or without meals, in which as a rule the rooms are occupied for hire, in which provisions are not made for cooling in any individual apartment, and in which there are more than twelve (12) sleeping rooms, a public dining room for the accommodations of more than twelve (12) guests, and a general kitchen.

A building occupied by a nonprofit corporation or nonprofit establishment for public use.

A building other than a hotel where lodging for five (5) or more persons is provided for compensation.

Land occupied or to be occupied by a building and its accessory buildings, and including such open spaces as are required under this ordinance, and having its principal frontage upon a public street or officially approved place.

The lines bounding a lot as defined herein.

A lot situated at the junction of two (2) or more streets and having a width not greater than one hundred (100) feet.

A building or premises occupied by a use that does not conform to the regulations of the use in the district in which it is situated.

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 projection of cornices, eaves or porches.

The word “person” when used in this ordinance shall for the purpose of this ordinance, mean every person, firm, copartnership, association, partnership, corporation or society; and the term “person” shall include both singular and plural, and the masculine shall embrace the feminine gender.

An open, unoccupied space reserved for purposes of access to abutting property.

A space unoccupied except by buildings of accessory use as hereinafter permitted extending for the full width of the lot between a building other than a building of accessory use and the rear lot line.

A portion of a corner lot fronting the street which was originally platted as aside street.

An open unoccupied space on the same lot with a building situated between the building and the side line of the lot and extending through from any street or from the front yard or to the rear line of the lot. Any lot line not a rear line or a front line shall be deemed a side line.

A stable with a capacity for not more than five (5) horses, mules or other domestic animals.

A stable with a capacity for more than five (5) horses, mules or other domestic animals.

Any public thoroughfare dedicated to the public and not designated as an alley.

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

A story under a gable, hip or gambrel roof, the wall plates of which at least two (2) exterior walls are not more than two (2) feet above the floor of such story.

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

The mean horizontal distance between a side wall of a building and the side line of the lot.