For the purpose of interpreting this appendix, certain words or terms used herein shall be defined as follows:

3.1.1 Words used in the present tense include the future tense.

3.1.2 Words used in the singular number include the plural, and words used in the plural include the singular.

3.1.3 The word "person" includes a firm, association, organization, partnership, corporation, trust, and company as well as an individual.

3.1.4 The word "lot" includes the word "plot" or "parcel."

3.1.5 The word "building" includes the word "structure."

3.1.6 The word "shall" is always mandatory.

3.1.7 The word "used" or "occupied" as applied to any land or building shall be construed to include the words "intended, arranged or designed to be used or occupied."

3.1.8 The phrase "Trenton Zoning Map," "Map," and "Zoning Map" means the "Official Zoning Map of the City of Trenton, Georgia."

Except as specifically defined herein all words used in this appendix shall carry their customary meaning as defined by a standard dictionary.

Accessory use: A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use or building and located on the same lot with such principal use or building.

Building: Any structure having a roof supported by columns or by walls and intended for shelter, housing, or enclosure of persons, animals, or chattels.

Building line: A line established by law or agreement, usually parallel with a property line, beyond which a structure may not extend.

Building, accessory: A building subordinate or supplemental to the main building on a lot and used for purposes customarily incidental to that of a main or principal building and located on the same lot therewith.

Building, principal: A building in which is conducted the main use of the lot on which said building is located.

Canopy tree : 12 Feet in Height (Maple, Elm, Willow Oak etc.)

Dwelling: A building designed, arranged, or used for permanent living quarters for one or more persons.

Dwelling unit: A building, or portion thereof, providing complete living facilities for one family.

Family: One or more persons occupying a dwelling and living as a single housekeeping unit.

Home occupation: An occupation or profession which is customarily carried on in a dwelling unit or in a building or other structure accessory to a dwelling unit; and is carried on by a member of the family residing in the dwelling unit; and is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling unit for residential purposes; and which conforms to the following additional conditions:

(1)

The occupation or profession shall be carried on wholly within the principal building or within a building or other structure accessory thereto.

(2)

Not more than one person outside the family shall be employed in the home occupation.

(3)

There shall be no exterior display, nor any exterior sign (except nameplate), no exterior storage of materials and no other exterior indication of the home occupation or variation from the residential character of the principal building.

(4)

No offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors, heat or glare shall be produced.

A home occupation includes, but is not limited to art studio; dressmaking; barber shop or beauty parlor; professional office of a physician, dentist, lawyer, engineer, architect, accountant; or musical instruction limited to a single pupil at a time.

Junk yard: Any such use involving the storage or disassembly of wrecked automobiles, trucks, or other vehicles; storage, bailing or otherwise dealing in bones, animal hides, scrap metal, used paper, used cloth, used plumbing fixtures and used brick, wood, or other building materials. Such uses shall be considered junk yards whether or not all or part of such operation are conducted inside a building or in conjunction with, addition to, or accessory to, other uses of the premises.

Lot: A portion or parcel of land devoted to a common use or occupied by a building or group of buildings devoted to a common use, together with the customary accessories and open spaces belonging to the same.

Lot, depth of: The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines, measured in the general direction of the side lot lines.

Lot, width of: The distance between side lot lines measured at the building line.

Manufactured home: A structure that is transportation in one or more sections which are built on a permanent chassis and has been designed to be used as a dwelling with or without permanent foundation. This structure, when connected to the required utilities (which includes plumbing, heating and air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein) bears a label certifying that it is constructed in compliance with the National Manufacturing Housing and Construction Safety Standards Act (42 USC 5401 et. seq.), as amended, U.S. Public Law 93-383, as amended. This definition is different than that of a "mobile home."

Manufactured home multi-unit: A detached single-family dwelling unit constructed in two or more units with similar marriage walls with wheels for movement (whether or not such wheels are later removed) and which has plumbing and electrical connections provided for attachment to outside systems, whether or not such unit is subsequently installed on a permanent foundation or other internal or external changes are made.

Manufactured home park: A parcel of land which has been planned and improved for the placement of mobile/manufactured homes for non-transient use.

Mobile home: A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length or, when erected on-site, is 320 or more square feet and 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 includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein and manufactured prior to June 15, 1976.

Nonconforming use: A building, structure, or use of land existing at the time of enactment of this appendix, and which does not conform to the regulations of the district in which it was located.

Rooming or boarding house: A dwelling, other than a hotel or lodging house, where meals or housing accommodations, for three or more persons are provided for hire.

Shrub: One foot in height (Abelia, Gray Owl Juniper, Buford Holly and Indian Hawthorn etc.)

Sign, business: An attached or free-standing structure which directs attention to a business or profession conducted on the premises.

Sign, outdoor advertising: A structural poster panel or painted sign, either free-standing or attached to the outside of a building, for the purpose of conveying information, knowledge, or ideas to the public about a subject either related or unrelated to the premises upon which the sign is located.

Street: A public way which affords the principal means to access to abutting properties.

Street, primary: A street or thoroughfare designated as a major or collector street in the Major Thoroughfare Plan of the City of Trenton.

Structure: Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground, or attachment to something having location on the ground.

Understory tree: Four feet in height (Eastern Redbud, Dogwood, and Natchez Crepe Myrtle Etc.)

Yard: A space on the same lot with a principal building open, unoccupied, and unobstructed by buildings, or structures from ground to sky except where encroachments and accessory buildings are expressly permitted.

Yard, front: An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a principal building, extending the full width of the lot, and situated between the street and the front lines of the building projected to the side lines of the lot.

Yard, rear: An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a principal building, extending the full width of the lot and situated between the rear line of the lot and the rear line of the building projected to the side lines of the lot.

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

(Ord. of 10-15-2019(1))