Definitions. As used in this Chapter, the following words shall have the prescribed meanings:
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR STRUCTUREA detached subordinate building or structure, the use of which is customarily incidental to that of the main building or structure or to the main use of the land and which is located on the same lot with the main building or use.
ACCESSORY USEA use which is incidental and subordinate to the principal use of the premises and does change the basic character thereof as determined by its principal use.
ALLEYA public access way which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property and is not intended for general traffic circulation.
ALTERATIONAs applied to a building, a change or rearrangement in the structural parts or in the existing facilities, or an enlargement, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or the moving from one location or position to another.
ALTERATIONS, STRUCTURALA change in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
AREA, FLOORThe total square footage within the principal spaces of each structure, excluding storage, stairs, elevators, parking and walkways.
AREA, NET SITEThe total area within the property lines of a lot, excluding public streets and alleys.
ATTACHED BUILDINGA building attached to another building by a common wall (such wall being a solid wall with or without windows and doors) and a common roof with at least horizontal dimension of six (6) feet.
BUILDINGAny structure built for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels, property or substances of any kind, excluding fences.
BUILDING HEIGHTThe vertical distance from the finished grade to the uppermost point of the roof structure.
BUILDING LINEThe line, parallel to the front lot line, measured between side lot lines through that part of the building, structure or construction site where the lot is narrowest.
CHURCHA permanent building primarily and regularly used as a place of religious worship.
CONSTRUCTIONTo add to, alter or modify the length, height or width of an existing structure, driveway, sidewalk or patio. To erect a new structure, driveway, sidewalk or patio.
DAYCAREA child-care facility, as defined by Section
210.201, RSMo., that is licensed by the State of Missouri.
DWELLING, MULTIPLE-FAMILYA dwelling or group of dwellings on one (1) lot or plot containing separate living units for three (3) or more families each living as independent housekeeping units.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILYA detached principal building designed for or used as a dwelling exclusively by one (1) family as an independent housekeeping unit.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILYA detached principal building for or used as a dwelling exclusively by two (2) families each living as an independent housekeeping unit.
DWELLING UNITShall include one (1) kitchen, and no more than one (1) family shall be allowed per kitchen.
ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOLAny public school as defined in Section
160.011, RSMo., or any private school giving instruction in a grade or grades not higher than the 12th grade, including any property owned by the public or private school that is regularly used for extracurricular activities, but does not include any private school in which education is primarily conducted in private homes.
FAMILY1. A single individual doing his/her own cooking and living upon the premises as a separate housekeeping unit; or
2. A collective body of persons doing their own cooking and living together upon the premises as a separate housekeeping unit in a domestic relationship based upon birth, marriage, or employment as domestic servants.
FENCEA structure erected to separate properties, to contain an area or portion of an area of a person's property. Construction may be of vinyl, ornamental iron, ornamental aluminum, chain link, wood, masonry, or equivalent. Electric, barb wire, woven wire, and wire panel fences shall be allowed by permit in areas zoned "AG-1" only.
FLOOR AREAThe area included within outside walls of a building or portion thereof, including habitable penthouses and the attic space but not including vent shafts, courts or uninhabitable areas below ground level or in attics.
FOOTPRINTThe portion of land covered by a building or structure, including overhang, and gutters as determined from a top down view. In the event that a building or structure does not have gutters, the footprint shall include the distance that the addition of gutters would add.
GARAGE REPAIRA building used for the business of repairing and/or servicing motor vehicles.
GASOLINE SERVICE STATIONA building or premises or portion thereof used for the retail sale of gasoline, oil or other fuel for motor vehicles and which may include, as an incidental use only, facilities used for polishing, greasing, washing or otherwise cleaning or light servicing of motor vehicles but not including liquefied gas distribution facilities.
GRADEThe average of the finished ground level at the midpoint of each wall of a building. In case walls are parallel to and within five (5) feet of a public sidewalk, said ground level shall be measured at the sidewalk.
GROUP HOMEAny home in which eight (8) or fewer unrelated mentally or physically handicapped persons reside, and may include two (2) additional persons acting as houseparents or guardians who need not be related to each other or to any of the mentally or physically handicapped persons residing in the home.
HOUSE PARKAny park, court, camp, site, lot, parcel or tract of land designed, maintained or intended for the purpose of providing a location or accommodations for any manufactured house or mobile home or motor home and upon which any manufactured house or mobile home are parked or located, including all buildings used or intended for use as part of the equipment or accessories thereof whether or not the same or any part thereof is held or operated for gain; excepting, however, automobile or manufactured home or mobile homes parked for inspection and sale.
LOTA portion or parcel of land (whether a portion of platted subdivision or otherwise) occupied or intended to be occupied by a building or use and its accessories, together with such yards as are required under the provisions of this Chapter, having not less than the minimum area, width and depth required by this Chapter for a lot in the district in which such land is situated, and having its principal frontage on a street or on such other means of access as permitted in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter. The minimum area of a lot as defined herein must be an integral unit of land under unified ownership in fee or in co-tenancy or under legal control tantamount to such ownership, which ownership or control must continue for the existence of the building or buildings permitted to be situated on the lot.
LOT, DEPTH OFThe mean linear distance measured on a horizontal plane between the front and rear lot lines.
LOT, WIDTH OFThe straight line linear distance between points on opposite side lot lines measured on a horizontal plane at the building line.
MANUFACTURED HOUSE A single-family dwelling, factory built on its own running gear consisting of a non-removable steel I-beam, with axles and tires underneath, towable to the house site, not necessarily placed on a permanent foundation, multi-part units are joined at the site, twenty (20) feet in width or more, built to the National Building Code established by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in 1976, rather than County or City codes.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA CULTIVATION FACILITYA facility licensed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, to acquire, cultivate, process, store, transport, and sell marijuana to a medical marijuana dispensary facility, medical marijuana testing facility, or to a medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY FACILITYA facility licensed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, to acquire, store, sell, transport, and deliver marijuana, marijuana-infused products, and drug paraphernalia used to administer marijuana as provided for in this section to a qualifying patient, a primary caregiver, another medical marijuana dispensary facility, a medical marijuana testing facility, or a medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA TRANSPORTATION FACILITYA facility certified by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, to transport marijuana to a qualifying patient, a primary caregiver, a medical marijuana cultivation facility, a medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility, a medical marijuana dispensary facility, a medical marijuana testing facility, or another medical marijuana transportation facility.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA-INFUSED PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING FACILITYA facility licensed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, to acquire, store, manufacture, transport, and sell marijuana-infused products to a medical marijuana dispensary facility, a medical marijuana testing facility, or to another medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility.
MOBILE HOMEA single-family dwelling, factory built on its own running gear consisting of a steel I-beam, with axles and tires underneath, towable to the house site, built to the National Building Code established by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in 1976, and regularly upgraded, and less than twenty (20) feet in width but more than twelve (12) feet in width.
MODULAR HOUSEA single-family dwelling, factory built multi-section transportable structure, built to the State, County, and City Code where the house will be located and assembled, joined together by contractors, placed on a permanent foundation, taxed and insured as real property, and does not have its own running gear, and is regulated as a typical Site Built House.
MOTELA building or group of attached or detached buildings consisting of four (4) or more separate, furnished living or sleeping rental units designed or used for accommodations of automobile travelers on a temporary basis and having a character designed to attract such travelers; the term "motel", as used in this Chapter, includes motor hotels, motor lodges, auto courts and the like.
MOTOR HOMEA structure eight and one-half (8 1/2) feet or less in width, either self propelled, towable, or mounted on a truck chassis and designed for temporary occupancy for travel, recreational, or vacation use.
NON-CONFORMING BUILDINGA building or structure or portion thereof conflicting with the provisions of this Chapter applicable to the zone in which it is situated.
NON-CONFORMING USEThe use of a structure or premises conflicting with the provisions of this Chapter.
A PARCELA quantity of land identified for taxation purposes.
PREMISESA lot with all the buildings and uses thereon.
PROFESSIONAL OFFICEAn office (other than a service office and other than an office for care and/or treatment of or medical attention to animals as distinguished from persons) for the practice of professions, such as the offices of physicians, dentists, attorneys-at-law, architects, engineers, artists, musicians, teachers, accountants and others who through training are qualified to perform services of a professional nature, or the offices of a governmental agency and where there is no storage, sale or display of general merchandise on the premises.
SETBACKThe distance in linear feet measured on a horizontal plane from the lot line to a building or structure on the lot.
SITE BUILT HOUSEA single-family dwelling, built from the ground up, built entirely at the house site, constructed to the building codes and standards required by State, County, City and subdivision where the house is located.
SMALL ANIMAL CLINICClinic for the treatment and care of small domestic animals but does not include housing of domestic animals for a period exceeding two (2) weeks.
STRUCTUREAnything constructed or erected with a fixed location on the ground but not including poles, lines, cables, or other transmission or distribution facilities of public utilities.
TINY HOUSEA single-family dwelling, less than nine hundred ninety-nine (999) square feet but two hundred fifty (250) square feet or more, towable by a bumper hitch or frame-towing hitch or site built, is built to look like a conventional building structure having siding material consisting of wood or wood products, stucco, brick, lap steel, aluminum or vinyl, or rock, and is a self contained unit which includes basic functional areas that support normal daily routines such as cooking, sleeping, and toiletry.
YARD, FRONTA yard extending across the full width of the lot between the front lot line and the nearest line or point of the principal building.
YARD, SIDEA yard extending from the front yard to the rear yard between the side lot line and the nearest line of point of the building.