A subordinate building located on the same lot with the main building, occupied by or devoted to an accessory use. Where an "accessory building" is attached to the main building in a substantial manner, as by a wall or roof, such "accessory building" shall be considered part of the main building in determining yard requirements.

A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the main use or building and located on the same lot therewith. In no case shall an "accessory use" dominate, in area, extent or purpose, the principal building.

A use customarily defined as farming, dairying, pasturage, agriculture, horticulture, viticulture, animal and poultry husbandry, and the sale of such products by one engaged in agriculture.

Any landing areas used for receiving or discharging passengers or cargo; any landing area being used for personal or training purposes; and any locality, either of land or water, which is used or intended to be used for the landing and takeoff of aircraft, whether or not facilities are provided for shelter, servicing or repair.

As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement in the structural parts or in the exit 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.

A system of electrical conductors that transmit or receive frequency signals. Such signals shall include but not be limited to radio, television, cellular, paging, digital and/or data communications, personal wireless communications services (PWS) and microwave communications.

A structure or part thereof used for purposes of any form of public or private assembly: religious, secular, social, recreational, professional or governmental, profit or nonprofit.

As provided in Chapter 120, Junkyards and Junk Dealers.

A structure customarily used in farming, dairying, agriculture, horticulture, viticulture, and animal and poultry husbandry.

An owner-occupied building designed, use and occupied as a single-family residence having, as an accessory use therein, public lodging rooms and facilities for preregistered short-term transient guests.

The furnishing of meals and/or living accommodations for four or more persons on a weekly or longer time basis for compensation.

The horizontal area of a lot covered by buildings, measured to the outside of walls.

The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed finished grade at the front of the building to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the deck line of mansard roofs and to the mean height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs.

Land used for temporary overnight accommodations in tents, trailers or other nondwelling arrangements. This term does not include mobile home courts.

A certificate issued by the Building Zoning Officer upon completion of construction, alteration or change in occupancy or use of a building. Said certificate shall acknowledge compliance with all the requirements of this chapter and such adjustments thereto granted by the Board of Appeals.

A development of residential lots, each containing less area than the minimum lot required for the zone within which such development occurs but maintaining the density limitation imposed by said minimum lot area through the provision of open space as a part of the subdivision plan.

Any building, structure or lot which is used for the repair, maintenance or equipping of motor vehicles.

The use of land or structures thereon for recreational functions or purposes for the use of the general public or enrolled membership and operated for gain.

A road or right-of-way, usually private, extending from a street or other public thoroughfare to a building, house, garage or other fixed structure.

A building used as the living quarters for one or more families, but not including a boardinghouse or rooming house, hotel or lodging house or motel.

A group of two or more dwellings located on the same lot and having any yard or open space in common.

A building or a group of buildings on one lot containing three or more dwelling units or two or more buildings with one or more dwellings on one lot.

A building containing one dwelling unit.

A building containing two dwelling units.

A structure or part of a structure containing a room or rooms designed for human occupancy by one family and including customary kitchen facilities.

One person or more than one person related by birth, marriage or other domestic bond, occupying a dwelling unit and living as a single, nonprofit housekeeping unit, including domestic servants and gratuitous guests, together with boarders, roomers or lodgers not in excess of the number allowed by this chapter by definition or as an accessory use.

A parcel or parcels in an R-Residential or A-Agricultural District devoted to farming as a primary use.

Any use of land or buildings customarily a part of farm or agricultural pursuits, including the housing of farm animals, except fur-bearing animals, the repair of equipment used on the premises and the sale of farm products where such is clearly incidental to the overall use of the premises as a farm.

Any structure, regardless of composition, except a living fence, that is erected or maintained for the purpose of enclosing a piece of land or to divide a piece of land into distinct portions.

A liquid having a flash point below 200° F., closed-cup tester. Class I "flammable liquids" (e.g., gasoline, ether and liquid petroleum gas) are those having a flash point below 25° F. Class II "flammable liquids" are those having a flash point below 70° F. but not below 25° F.

An accessory building or portion of a main building used for the storage of automotive vehicles used by the occupants of the premises.

Any garage other than a private garage, available to the public, operated for gain and used for motor vehicle storage, repair, rental, servicing, adjusting or equipping.

A building, structure or tract of land used for the storage and sale of gasoline, motor fuel, lubricants, accessories, supplies and any other materials related to the maintenance or equipment of automobiles or in which repairs, adjustments, maintenance or the equipping of automobiles is conducted. The term shall include, without limitation, the rendering of the following services: fueling or changing oil, water, batteries or tires; replacing fan belts, air filters or oil filters; and installing windshield wiper blades or light bulbs. The term shall not include any such establishment which renders such services or stores such materials for a single commercial or industrial establishment rather than offering such services and materials to the public.

The projected plan area of the dwelling enclosed for year-round use, exclusive of garages, carports, open porches and verandas, and exclusive of accessory buildings, whether attached or detached.

In regard to fences, the distance measured from the existing grade to the top of the fence.

An accessory use, of a service character, conducted within a dwelling by the residents thereof, which occupation is clearly secondary to the use of the dwelling for the living purposes and does not change the character thereof or have any exterior evidence of such secondary use other than a permitted nameplate, and in connection with which there is not involved the keeping of a stock-in-trade. The following occupations, such as, but not limited to, are deemed home occupations: teaching of voice or individual musical instruments, computer services, bookkeeping, accounting and manufacturers' representatives.

The office of a member of a recognized profession when conducted on residential property; such occupations shall include but not be limited to those of doctors, lawyers, architects, engineers, artists, ministers and other recognized professional persons.

A building containing sleeping rooms for five or more persons, which rooms are available to the public for less than a week at a time for compensation, with no cooking or dining facilities except a general kitchen and public dining room.

An area, lot or unenclosed shed where junk, waste or discarded salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, sorted, baled, packed, disassembled, handled or abandoned, including auto wrecking or dismantling yards, house wrecking yards, used lumber yards and places or yards for use of salvaged house wrecking and structural steel materials and equipment; but not including pawn shops and establishments for the sale, purchase or storage of used furniture, household equipment and clothing, for processing of used, discarded or salvaged materials as part of manufacturing operations or for the sale, purchase or storage of used motor vehicles or salvaged machinery to be reused for the purpose for which originally manufactured.

Any premises on which four or more dogs over six months of age are kept.

A parcel of land considered as a unit, devoted to a certain use or occupied by a building or a group of buildings that are united by a common interest or use, and the customary accessories and open spaces belonging to the same. A "lot" within the meaning of this chapter may or may not be a lot as shown on a subdivision plat, assessment record or recorded deed.

The net area contained within lot lines.

The property lines bounding the lot by legal description. The "front lot line" shall be measured at the edge of the right-of-way of the highway giving access to the lot. In the case of a corner lot, the owner may designate either street line as the "front lot line" and shall maintain the minimum setbacks from the edge of each right-of-way. The "rear lot line" shall be the lot line most distance from the front lot line.

The least horizontal distance across the lot between side lot lines measured at the nearest street or highway center line.

Any vehicle or combination thereof used, designed for use or capable of being used for sleeping or living quarters for one or more persons, designed to be moved from one location to another by means of wheels affixed to an axle or carriage affixed to the vehicle, whether propelled by its own power or by the power of another vehicle to which it may be attached, and whether the axle or carriage to which the wheels may be affixed is detachable or detached, and irrespective of the name or title assigned or designated by the manufacturer of the unit or any other persons.

Any plot of ground on which two or more occupied mobile homes are located, whether or not a charge is made for such accommodations.

A building or group of buildings used primarily as sleeping or living quarters for transient automobile travelers and providing for accessory off-street parking but with no cooking facilities except in a restaurant or caretaker's unit. The term includes auto courts, cabin courts, motor lodges, tourist courts and similar appellations, but not trailer camps.

Lawful occupancy of a structure or land by a use or activity which was lawful prior to the adoption or amendment of this Chapter 200, Zoning, but which fails to conform to the requirements of the zoning district in which it is located by reason of such adoption or amendment.

Use of a building or lot or part of a building or lot for nursery or other care of more than five children under six years of age not residing on the premises and conducted on a regularly scheduled basis.

Use of a building for nursing care of two or more persons not related to the operators by family ties and done for compensation.

An unobstructed area having access to a street suitable for the loading or unloading of motor transport vehicles with minimum dimensions of 12 feet in height, 10 feet in width and 50 feet in depth.

An unobstructed area having access to a street suitable for the parking of passenger motor vehicles and with minimum dimensions of 10 feet in width and 20 feet in depth.

An office, store or other place of business catering to the personal needs of a customer, such as normally conducted by a barber, beautician, tailor or dressmaker.

The development of a parcel of land for recreational use operated for gain in a planned unit concept whereby the area may contain diverse recreational facilities, together with accessory service uses, such as food, lodging, amusement, specialized related rental sales and parking facilities.

An accessory building or portion of a main building used for the storage of self-propelled vehicles used by the occupants of the premises, including space for not more than one passenger vehicle used by others.

When operated as a permitted accessory use in a residence district, a room or rooms on the same lot as the residence of a professional doctor, dentist, engineer, architect or other recognized professional, used as a place of business for such profession in a manner clearly accessory to the dwelling use of the lot.

The conducting of a use for a period not exceeding eight months in any calendar year.

The least distance from any building to the front lot line or the adjacent boundary of the existing or platted street or highway or right-of-way, whichever is greater.

Any advertisement, announcement, direction or communication produced in whole or in part by the construction, erection, affixing or placing of a structure on any land or on any other structure or produced by painting on or posting or placing any printed, lettered, pictured, figured or colored material on any structure or surface, but not including signs placed or erected by the Town of Wales, the County of Erie or the State of New York for the purpose of showing street names or traffic directions or regulations or for other public purposes.

The area defined by the frame or edge of a sign. Where there is no geometric frame or edge of the sign, the "area" shall be defined as a projected, enclosed, four-sided (straight sides) geometric shape which most closely outlines said sign.

A plan of a lot or subdivision on which is shown topography, location of all buildings, structures, roads, rights-of-way and boundaries, all essential dimensions and bearings and any other information deemed necessary by the Town Board.

A use requiring the additional standards and approval as specified in Article VII.

That portion of a building between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it or, if there is no floor above it, then the space between any floor and ceiling next above it. A basement shall be counted as a "story" for purposes of height measurement if the ceiling is more than five feet above the average adjoining ground level. A "half-story" is a story under a sloping roof, having a ceiling height of seven feet or more or not exceeding 1/2 the floor area of the uppermost full story in the building.

Anything constructed or erected which requires permanent location on the ground or attachment to something having such location.

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

Any tract of land which is divided into five or more parcels, effective August 1, 1977, along any existing or proposed street(s), highway(s), easement(s) or right(s)-of-way for sale or for rent as residential lots or residential building plots, regardless of whether the lots or plots to be sold or offered for sale or lease for any period of time are described by metes or bounds or by reference to a map or survey of the property or by any other method of description and regardless of whether the lots or plots are contiguous. A tract of land shall constitute a "subdivision" upon the sale, rental or offer for sale or lease of the fifth residential lot or residential building plot therefrom within any consecutive three-year period, and the same shall apply to all such parcels thereof, including the first four parcels, regardless of whether said parcels have been sold, rented or offered for sale or lease, either singly or collectively. The word "tract" shall mean any body of land, including contiguous parcels of land, under one ownership or under common control of any group of persons acting in concert as part of a common scheme or plan. "Residential building plot or lot" shall mean any parcel of land of five acres or less, any point on the boundary line of which is less than 1/2 mile from any point on the boundary line of another such lot in the same tract, unless any such lot may not legally be used for residential purpose. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term "residential" shall include temporary, seasonal and permanent residential use. "Subdivision" does not include any parcel of land acquired as one parcel for the residential purposes as provided in the New York Public Health Law § 1115-a.

Towers and/or antennas and their accessory structures together used in connection with the provision of cellular telephone service, personal communications services, digital and/or data communication services, paging services, radio and television broadcast services and similar broadcast services. (Also referred to as "facilities" or "equipment.") The aforementioned accessory structures are nonhabitable buildings or structures being used in conjunction with a tower or other telecommunications facility, and which are usually located on the same lot as those facilities. Examples of such structures include utility or transmission storage sheds or cabinets.

A structure designed to support antennas. It includes, without limit, freestanding towers, guide wires, monopoles and similar structures which do or which do not employ camouflage technology.

Any vehicle permanently licensed and mounted on wheels used exclusively for camping and traveling, either the folding box-type with a tent that opens or a metal shell that can be easily towed by any ordinary automobile on the highway, and shall not be deemed a house trailer under the definitions of this article.

An area on a lot with a main building, unbuilt on and open to the sky, of such shape, location and character as to be usable for laundry drying, recreational use by small children or other dwelling accessory use, but not to be used for vehicle parking.

The specific purposes for which land or a building is designed, arranged, intended or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.

As provided in § 27-0303, Subdivision 7, and § 27-0901, Subdivision 11, of the New York Environmental Conservation Law.

An open space extending the full width of a lot between the rearmost main building and the rear lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed by buildings or structures from the ground upward except as hereinafter specified, the depth of which shall be the least horizontal distance between the rear lot line and the rear of such main building.

An open space extending from the front yard or the rear yard between a main building, structure or portion thereof and the side lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed by buildings or structures from the ground upward, except as hereinafter specified. The required width of the "side yard" shall be measured horizontally from the nearest point of the side lot line to the nearest building.