Except as specifically described herein, all words shall have the customary dictionary meaning. Words used in the present tense include the future tense, and words used in the future tense include the present. Words used in singular number include the plural, and words used in the plural include the singular. The word "person" includes a firm, corporation, association, organization, trust, or partnership. The word "lot" includes "plot" or "parcel." The word "building" includes "structure."

The word "shall" is always mandatory. The word "used" or "occupied" as applied to any land or building shall be construed to include the words "intended, arranged, or designated to be used or occupied." The word "map" means the "Official Zoning Map."

(Ord. No. 32-14, 11-3-14)

When used in these regulations the following words and phrases shall have the meaning given in this section:

1.

Accessory structure: A structure detached from the principal building on the same lot and customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal building or use.

2.

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.

3.

Adult entertainment: Entertainment that is characterized by an emphasis on the depiction, display or featuring of specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities. Specific adult entertainment businesses as defined in the City of Warner Robins Code of Ordinances, chapter 2.5.

4.

Airport: A transportation terminal facility where aircraft take off and land.

5.

Alley: A public way dedicated to and accepted by a governing body and which is primarily for vehicular service access to the rear or side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.

6.

Assisted living facility: A residential facility providing living quarters restricted to individuals who require access to services but not daily nursing or medical intervention. Incidental uses and/or services may include protective supervision, personal care, social and recreational services, assistance with medical requirements, assistance with meals, and laundry and transportation service.

7.

Automobile repair garage: A building or portion thereof, other than a private or parking garage, designed or used for the storage, servicing, repairing, equipping, or hiring of motor-driven vehicles.

8.

Automobile service stations: Any area of land, including structures thereon, used for the retail sale of motor fuels (including alternative fuels such as natural gas or hydrogen), oil, automobile accessories, and incidental services including facilities for lubricating, automobile washing, and cleaning, or otherwise servicing automobiles, but excluding painting, major repair.

9.

Bar/tavern/pub/cocktail lounge means a commercial structure open for public use in which alcoholic beverage sales may constitute more than fifty (50) percent of the gross sale of goods. All such facilities must operate in compliance with O.C.G.A. § 3-3-40 et seq., as amended, or any other applicable state law.

10.

Block: A piece or parcel of land entirely surrounded by public highways or streets, other than alleys.

11.

Buffer: A dense planting of trees and/or shrubs shall be established on a strip of land not less than fifteen (15) feet in width or a fence of solid appearance with a minimum height of six (6) feet eight (8) inches from the pavement on a strip of land not less than five (5) feet along those lot lines of the parking areas which abut residential districts. If a planted buffer is used, it shall be established to a minimum height of six (6) feet within two (2) years of planting.

12.

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

13.

Building, alterations of: Any change in the supporting members of a building such as bearing walls, beams, columns, and girders, except such change as may be required for its safety; any addition to a building; any change in use resulting from moving a building from one (1) location to another.

14.

Building, height of: The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed finished grade at the front of the building, including parapets, except that the distance shall be measured to the average height between the eaves and ridge for gable, hip, and gambrel roofs and to the deck line of a mansard roof.

15.

Building, main: A building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot on which it is situated. In any residential district, any dwelling shall be deemed to be a main building on the lot on which it is situated.

16.

Building setback line: A line on the plat generally parallel to the street right-of-way line or property lines indicating the distance from which buildings and structures shall be erected from those lines.

17.

Carport: A structure with a solid weatherproof roof that is permanently open on at least two (2) sides and is designed to shelter one (1) or more vehicles. A carport may be freestanding or attached to another structure. A trellis or similar structure is not considered a carport.

18.

City: The City of Warner Robins, Georgia.

19.

Clinic: An establishment where patients, who are not lodged overnight, are admitted for examination and treatment.

20.

Club: Buildings and facilities owned or operated by a corporation, association, person or persons for social, educational, or recreational purposes, but not primarily for profit or to render a service to the general public.

21.

Community sewer system: A privately-owned sewer system meeting the minimum standards set by the Environmental Protection Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

22.

Community water system: A privately-owned water system meeting the minimum standards set by the Environmental Protection Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

23.

Comprehensive plan (master plan): The various maps, plats, charts, and descriptive and explanatory material and all textual matter approved by the planning and zoning commission for the purpose of guiding and shaping the growth of an area.

24.

Convenience store: Any retail establishment offering for sale a limited line of groceries and household items intended for convenience of the neighborhood, but excluding the sale of gasoline.

25.

Crematory: An establishment where bodies of dead people are cremated.

26.

District: (Zoning) Any section of the City of Warner Robins, Georgia, within which the zoning regulations are uniform.

27.

Daycare center: Any place operated by a person, society, agency, corporation, or institution, or any other group wherein are received for pay seven (7) or more children under eighteen (18) years of age for group care, without transfer of custody, for more than four (4) hours and less than twenty-four (24) hours per day.

28.

Daycare home: A private residence operated by any person who receives therein for pay and for supervision and care fewer than twenty-four (24) hours per day, without transfer of legal custody, three (3) but not more than six (6) children under eighteen (18) years of age who are not related to such persons and whose parents or guardians are not residents in the same private residence.

29.

Dwelling: Any building or portion thereof which is designed for or used for residential purposes.

30.

Dwelling, multi-family: A building designed for or occupied exclusively by three (3) or more families living independently of each other.

31.

Dwelling, single-family (detached): A building designed for or occupied exclusively by one (1) family. For regulatory purposes, the general term is not to be construed as including the special form of one-family dwelling defined as mobile home or portable housing for recreational or other temporary use or a single-family attached or semi-detached dwelling as defined herein.

32.

Dwelling attached, single-family: A dwelling unit which is erected on an individual lot but as part of a single building, containing three (3) or more dwelling units on adjoining lots, each being separated from the adjoining unit or units by an approved fire resistant party wall or walls extending from the basement or cellar floors to the roof along the dividing lot line.

33.

Dwelling semi-detached, single-family: A dwelling unit which is erected on an individual lot but as part of a single building containing one (1) additional dwelling unit on an adjoining lot, and separated by an approved fire-resistant party wall extending from the basement or cellar floor to the roof along the dividing lot line.

34.

Dwelling, farm tenant: A residential structure located on a farm and occupied by a farm worker employed by the owner of the farm.

35.

Dwelling, two-family (duplex): A building designed for and occupied exclusively by two (2) families living independently of each other with individual kitchen and bathroom facilities.

36.

Dwelling unit: A dwelling or portion thereof providing complete living facilities for one (1) family.

37.

Easement: A grant by a property owner for the use for a specific purpose (or purposes) of a piece of land by the general public, a corporation, or a person or persons.

38.

Fallout shelter: A structure or portion of a structure intended to provide protection to human life during periods of danger from nuclear fallout, air raids, storms, or other emergencies.

39.

Family: One (1) or more individuals related by blood, marriage, adoption, legal guardianship, or not more than five (5) unrelated individuals, who live together in a single dwelling unit and who function as a single housekeeping unit, have established ties and familiarity with each other, jointly use common areas, interact with each other, and share meals, household activities, expenses, and responsibilities. This definition shall include five (5) or fewer mentally handicapped, developmentally disabled persons, and other handicapped persons, as defined in the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 3601, et seq., living as a housekeeping unit and otherwise meeting the definition of "family" herein.

40.

Floor area: The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the total number of floors of a building measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the centerline of walls separating two (2) buildings, but not including: the attic space providing headroom for less than seven (7) feet; unusable basement or cellar space not used for retailing, uncovered steps or fire escapes; open porches; accessory water or cooling towers; accessory off-street parking spaces; and accessory off-street loading berths.

41.

Frontage, lot: The distance for which the front boundary line of the lot and the street line are coincident.

42.

Frontage, street: All the property on the side of a street between two (2) intersecting streets (crossing or terminating), or if the street is dead-ended, then all the property abutting on one (1) side between an intersecting street and the dead-end of the street.

43.

Funeral establishment: A place with facilities for the preparation of the dead for burial or cremation, for the viewing of the body and for funerals, called also: Funeral home, funeral parlor, funeral chapel, funeral church, and mortuary.

44.

Garage, apartment: A dwelling unit for one (1) family erected above a private garage detached from the main dwelling.

45.

Garage, parking: A building or portion thereof designed or used for storage of motor-driven vehicles, and at which motor fuels and oils may be sold, and in connection with which may be performed general automotive servicing as distinguished from automotive repairs.

46.

Garage, private: An accessory building or a portion of a main building used for the parking or storage of automobiles of the occupants of the main building. A carport is considered a private garage.

47.

Gas station minimart: A place where gasoline, motor oil, lubricants or other minor accessories are retailed directly to the public on the premises in combination with the retailing of items typically found in a convenience store or supermarket.

48.

Governing body: "Governing body" shall mean the mayor and council for the City of Warner Robins.

49.

Group homes: A residential care facility in which six (6) or fewer people who do not meet the definition of "family" including any resident staff who share a single housekeeping unit. Requires licensing by the State of Georgia. The term "group home" shall not include a residence of post incarcerated individuals or those who are a danger to themselves or others.

50.

Halfway house: A group facility occupied and used for the business purpose of providing transitional offender rehabilitation or similar purposes, whether for profit or nonprofit, and whether or not required to have a state or federal permit, provided that the majority of the residents shall meet one of the following criteria:

(a)

On parole or probation, or has been ordered to reside in such type of facility as a condition of parole or probation; or

(b)

Has been convicted of a felony and has completed his or her sentence; or

(c)

Has been convicted of a criminal offense and has been ordered to reside in such type of facility as part of the criminal sentencing.

51.

Home occupation: A lawful activity for gain or support, carried on within a dwelling by a resident(s) where: the office is secondary to the use of the dwelling for living purposes, the residential character of the dwelling is maintained and no employees come to the site. Examples include artists, counseling, crafts people, hair cutting/styling, tutoring, writers, and consultants.

52.

Hospice: A home for terminally ill persons with less than six (6) months to live in which palliative care and social services, including bereavement counseling, are provided.

53.

Hospital: An institution, licensed by the state department of health, in which is provided inpatient health care for people, including general medical and surgical services, psychiatric care and specialty medical facilities. Outpatient facilities within such structures in which such services are provided are included.

54.

Industrialized building: Any building or building component which is manufactured in accordance with the Georgia Industrialized Building Act and the rules of the commissioner of community affairs issued pursuant thereto. Each unit must bear a seal of approval issued by the commissioner or must be inspected during the time of manufacture by the inspection department of this jurisdiction.

55.

Institution, nonprofit: A nonprofit corporation or a nonprofit establishment.

56.

Intermediate regional flood: A flood which has a one (1) percent chance of occurring in any year. Such a flood is representative of large floods known to have occurred generally in the area and which is reasonably characteristic of what can be expected to occur on a particular stream.

56.1

Interparcel Access: Refers to the connectivity of adjacent parcels established by a private access road that is delineated from parking areas and allows short trips between developments without using major roadways.

57.

Junkyard: A lot, land, or structure, or part thereof, used primarily for the collecting, storage, and sale of waste paper, rags, scrap metal, or discarded material; or for the collecting, dismantling, storage, and salvaging of machinery or vehicles not in running condition, or for the sale of parts thereof.

58.

Kennels: Any location where raising, grooming, caring for, or boarding of dogs, cats, or other small animals for commercial purposes is carried on.

59.

Kindergarten: A school for pre-elementary school children.

60.

Landing Area: The area of an airport used for landing, taking off, or taxiing of aircraft.

61.

Laundromat: A business that provides home-type washing, drying, and/or ironing machines for hire.

62.

Laundry and dry cleaning pick-up: A business that provides only for the convenience of taking and picking up of laundry, such as establishments not having any equipment for processing of the laundry.

63.

Loading space: A space within the main building or on the same lot, providing for the standing, loading, or unloading of trucks and other carriers.

64.

Lodgings, transient: Bed and breakfast: A building in which lodging and board is provided for more than three (3) and fewer than twenty (20) persons.

(a)

Boarding house: A building, where for compensation, both lodging and meals are provided for not more than ten (10) persons, providing that a single-family dwelling shall not be deemed to be a boarding house by reason of a contribution to or expense-sharing arrangement with the owner or tenant occupying the dwelling by a person related by blood or marriage.

(b)

Hotel: A building in which lodging, or board and lodging, are provided for more than twenty (20) persons and offered to the public for compensation, and in which ingress and egress to and from each sleeping room is made through the interior of the building.

(c)

Inn: A building in which lodging, or board and lodging, are provided and offered to the public for compensation, having no more than twenty (20) guestrooms.

(d)

Motel: A building or a group of buildings containing sleeping accommodations for rental primarily to transients and in which ingress and egress to and from each sleeping room is generally to the outside of the building.

(e)

Rooming house: A building other than a hotel, boarding house or motel where lodging for three (3) in addition to the owner or manager, but not more than twenty (20) persons, is provided with no meals served.

65.

Lot: A portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land, intended as a unit for transfer of ownership or for building development.

66.

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

67.

Lot of record: A lot or parcel of land whose existence, location, and dimensions have been recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Houston County.

68.

Lot, corner: A lot bounded on two (2) adjacent sides by streets.

69.

Lot, double frontage: A lot having a frontage on two (2) streets as distinguished from a corner lot.

70.

Lot, flag. A lot not fronting or abutting a public roadway and where access to the public roadway is limited to a narrow private right-of-way.

71.

Lot, interior: A lot other than a corner lot.

72.

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

73.

Manufactured home: A structure, transportable in one (1) or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight (8) body feet or more in width or forty (40) body feet or more in length or, when erected on site, is three hundred twenty (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; except that such term shall include any structure which meets all the requirements of this paragraph except the size requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and complies with the standards established under the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. Section 5401, et seq. The term "manufactured home" does not include campers, travel trailers, recreational vehicles (RVs), motor homes or modular homes.

74.

Manufactured home park: Any lot where manufactured homes are customarily parked for a longer period of time than thirty (30) days for living or sleeping purposes, or where spaces are set aside and offered for rent for use by manufactured homes for living or sleeping purposes, including any land, building, structure, or facility used by occupants or manufactured homes on such premises.

75.

Manufactured home stand: That part of a manufactured home lot which has been reserved for the actual physical placement and tie down of a manufactured home for non-transient use.

76.

Manufactured home subdivision: A subdivision designed and intended for residential use where residence is primarily in manufactured homes.

77.

Manufactured home space: A plot of ground within a manufactured home park designed for the accommodation of one (1) manufactured home.

78.

Modular home: A factory-fabricated single-family dwelling which is constructed in one (1) or more sections designed to be incorporated at a building site on a permanent foundation into a permanent structure and complies with the definition of "industrialized building."

79.

Nonconforming use: A building, structure, or use of land existing at the time of the enactment of these regulations or at the time of a zoning amendment and which does not conform with the regulations of the use district in which it is located.

80.

Nursing/convalescent home: A facility established for profit or non-profit, which provides bed care and in-patient services for persons requiring regular medical attention but excluding a facility providing surgical or emergency medical services and excluding a facility providing care for alcoholism, drug addiction, mental disease or communicable disease.

81.

Open space: A yard area which is not used for or occupied by a driveway, off-street parking, loading space, drying yard, or refuse storage space.

82.

Parking space: The area required for parking one (1) automobile, which in these regulations is held to a minimum width of nine (9) feet and a minimum length eighteen (18) feet, excluding passageways, and so arranged as to accommodate a standard automobile and to provide necessary maneuvering space.

82.a.

Subcompact Parking space: The area required for parking (1) subcompact automobile, which in these regulations is held to a minimum width of eight (8) feet and a minimum length fifteen (15) feet, excluding passageways, and so arranged as to accommodate a subcompact automobile and to provide necessary maneuvering space.

83.

Personal care home: A residence in which two (2) or more unrelated persons with disabilities reside that provide one (1) or more personal care services including but not limited to assistance with or supervision of self -administered medication and essential activities of daily living such as eating, bathing, grooming, dressing, and toileting, that do not provide nursing or medical care and are licensed by the state department of human resources as a personal care home under O.C.G.A. tit. 31.

84.

Planning and zoning commission: Shall mean the Warner Robins Planning and Zoning Commission.

85.

Planned development districts: Parcel(s) of land to be developed as an integrated unit under single ownership or control, and includes the planned development residential (PDR), planned development commercial (PDC), planned development industrial (PDI) and planned development extraordinary district districts.

86.

Plat: A map, plan; or layout of a county, city, town, section, or subdivision indicating the location and boundaries of individual properties.

87.

Playschool: A school for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten-age children.

88.

Principal use: The primary purpose for which land or building is used.

89.

Professional: When used in connection with "use" and "occupancy," a use or occupancy by persons generally engaged in rendering personal, executive, sales, or administrative services or activities, including accountants, architects, engineers, and land surveyors, doctors, lawyers, insurance offices, real estate offices, religious organizations, stock brokers, and administrative agencies considered professional in character. The term, however, does not include repairs or sales of tangible personal property stored or located within the structure nor any use which would create any loud noise or noxious odors.

90.

Public sewer system: A publicly-owned sewer system meeting the minimum standards set by the Environmental Protection Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

91.

Public water system: A publicly-owned water system meeting the minimum standards set by the Environmental Protection Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

92.

Public way: Any piece of land over which the general public has a right of usage, whether acquired through prescription, by adverse use of the general public, or otherwise.

93.

Restaurant, drive-in: An eating and/or drinking establishment which caters to motor-driven vehicle business where the person being served may consume food and/or drink while sitting in a motor-driven vehicle.

94.

Retirement home: A residence designed for occupancy primarily for elderly persons, which may contain, for the convenience of its residents, common eating areas, personal/infirmary care, common recreational areas and accessory retail uses.

95.

Right-of-way: Access over or across particularly described property for a specific purpose or purposes.

96.

Right-of-way line: The dividing line between a lot, tract, or parcel of land contiguous to street, railroad, or other public utility rights-of-way.

97.

Self-storage facility: A building or group of buildings consisting of individual, self-contained units leased to individuals, organizations, or businesses for self-storage of personal property.

98.

Setback: Generally the minimum required distance between a property line and a building or a structure. Depending on the shape of the property, there could be more than one (1) side setback or no rear or more than one (1) rear but there will always be a front setback.

99.

Setback, front: A line drawn between the two (2) side lot lines, parallel (or as close as practical) to the front property line the minimum distance required by the applicable zoning district.

100.

Setback, rear: A line drawn between the two (2) side lot lines, parallel (or as close as practical) to the front setback line the minimum distance required by the applicable zoning district.

101.

Setback, side: A line drawn parallel to a side lot line the minimum distance required by the applicable zoning district.

102.

Temporary shelter: A residential facility serving as a temporary protective sanctuary to receive and house persons who are victims of crime or abuse, including dependents of the victim, to provide temporary boarding, lodging, counseling and day care. The facility shall meet all certification requirements of the state, as applicable.

103.

Shopping center: A group of commercial establishments planned and developed as a unit, with common off-street parking and stormwater management provided on the property.

104.

Sign: Any name, identification, description, display, illustration or device which is affixed to or represented directly or indirectly upon a building, structure or land in view of the general public and which is intended to convey information.

105.

Sign size: The smallest square, rectangle, triangle, circle, or combination thereof encompassing the entire advertising area, excluding architectural trim and structural supports.

106.

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

107.

Sign structure: A structure composed of one (1) or more poles which is located on the ground or on top of another structure and which supports no more than two (2) signs.

108.

Sign structure facing: The surface of the sign upon, against, or through which the message of the sign is exhibited, not including architectural trim and structural supports.

109.

Single housekeeping unit: When one (1) or more persons who have free access to the entire structure, share all the facilities of the dwelling and if renting, occupy the premises under a single lease agreement or sublease agreement.

110.

Site plan: A detailed scaled and dimensioned drawing based on a certified boundary survey, showing but not limited to the specific locations of all buildings, building elevations, structures, drainage ways, roads, internal roadway circulation, means of ingress and egress, recreation areas, parking areas, landscape strips and buffers, public roads and facilities adjacent to the property for which the site plan has been drawn.

111.

Story: That portion of a building, other than a cellar, included between the surface of the floor and the ceiling above it.

112.

Street: A public way dedicated to and accepted by a governing body for the use of vehicular or pedestrian traffic by the general public and may be referred to as a street, highway, parkway, road, avenue, drive, boulevard, lane, place, etc.

(a)

Arterial. A street designed for rapid, continuous movement of all types of traffic but with less control over the access points from streets and adjacent property than expressways.

(b)

Collector street. A street designated to carry traffic with relatively little interruption and at moderate speeds between local service streets and arterials, including the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation within such a development.

(c)

Cul-de-sac. A service street having one (1) end open to traffic, with the other end permanently terminated by a turnaround.

(d)

Marginal access street. A street generally parallel and adjacent to expressways, arterials, or collector streets, for the purpose of providing access to abutting properties and of separating high-speed from local traffic.

(e)

Local service street. A street intended to provide direct access to abutting property.

(f)

Expressways. A street designed for fast, continuous movement of all types of traffic, with control over access to abutting property and the spacing of street intersections.

113.

Street line: A right-of-way or property line of a street as indicated by dedication or by deed or plat or record.

114.

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

115.

Subdivider: Any person who undertakes the subdivision of land as herein defined.

116.

Subdivision: Any division of a tract or parcel of land into two (2) or more lots, building sites or other divisions for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale, legacy or building development, and includes all division of land involving a new street or a change in existing streets, and includes resubdivision and, where appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land or area subdivided; provided, however, that the following are not included in this definition.

(a)

The division of land into parcels of five (5) acres or more where no new street is involved; and

(b)

The combination or recombination of portions of previously platted lots where the total number of lots is not increased and the resultant lots are equal to the standards of these regulations.

117.

Townhouse: A single-family attached dwelling unit that is erected in a row as part of a single building, on adjoining lots, each being separated from the adjoining unit or units by an approved fire resistant party wall or walls extending from the basement or cellar floor to the roof along the dividing lot line.

118.

Transitional living center: A community-based residential facility that provides short-term (one hundred twenty (120) days or less) room and board in a supervised living environment and is generally integrated with other social services, counseling and rehabilitation programs to assist in the transition to self-sufficiency though the acquisition of a stable income and permanent housing for homeless persons and/or those with a history of juvenile delinquency, behavioral disorders, alcoholism, or drug abuse.

119.

Travel trailer: Portable recreational housing units: General terms used interchangeably and intended to include travel trailers, pick-up campers, motorized homes, converted buses, tent trailers, tents, or similar devices designed and intended for use as temporary portable recreational housing but containing not more than three hundred twenty (320) square feet of floor area.

120.

Travel trailer park: Any lot on which is temporarily parked one (1) or more travel trailers for a period of less than thirty (30) days.

121.

Variance: A variance is a relaxation of the terms of the zoning ordinance for a specific parcel, except use, where such variance will not be contrary to the public interest and where, owing to conditions peculiar to the property and not the result of the actions of the applicant, a literal enforcement of the ordinance would result in unnecessary and undue hardship to the property. Establishment or expansion of a use otherwise prohibited shall not be allowed by variance. Nor shall a variance be granted because of the presence of nonconformities in the zoning district or uses in an adjoining zoning district.

122.

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

123.

Yard, front: An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with the main building, extending the full width of the lot and situated between the street line and the front line of the building projected to the side lines of the lot. The depth of the front yard shall be measured between the front line of the building and the street line. Covered porches, whether enclosed or unenclosed, shall be considered as part of the main building and shall not project into a required front yard. On corner lots, the front yard shall be considered as parallel to the street upon which the lot has its least dimension.

124.

Yard, rear: An open space on the same lot with the main building, such space being unoccupied except possibly by an accessory building and extending the full width of the lot and situated between the rear line of the lot and the rear line of the main building projected to the side lines of the lot. On all corner lots the rear yard shall be at the opposite end of the lot from the front yard.

125.

Yard side: An open, unoccupied space, on the same lot with a main building, situated between the side line of the building and the adjacent side line of the lot extending from the rear line of the front yard to the front line of the rear yard. If no front yard is required, the front boundary of the side yard shall be the front line of the lot and if no rear yard is required, the rear boundary of the side yard shall be the rear line of the lot. On corner lots, the side yard shall be considered as parallel to the street upon which the lot has its greatest dimension.

126.

Yard sale/garage sale: The sale or trading of clothing, furniture, household items, food, dishes, antiques or similar goods or merchandise on a residentially zoned lot or parcel of land within the city.

(Ord. No. 32-14, 11-3-14; Ord. No. 03-17, § 1, 2-6-17; Ord. No. 40-22, § 1, 10-17-22)