Except where specifically defined herein, all words used in this chapter shall carry their customary meaning. Words used in the present tense include the future, and the plural includes the singular; the word "lot" includes the word "plot"; the word "building" includes the word "structure"; the word "shall" is intended to be mandatory; "occupied" or "used" shall be considered as though followed by the words "or intended, arranged, or designed to be used or occupied."

Accessory building. A subordinate building or a portion of the main building on a lot, the use of which is customarily incidental to that of the main or principal building.

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

Alley. A public thoroughfare which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property and not intended for general traffic circulation.

Apartment. A room or suite of rooms with culinary facilities designed for or used as living quarters for a single family.

Apartment hotel. A building designed for or containing both apartments and individual guest rooms or suites of rooms and apartments, wherein is maintained an inner lobby through which all tenants must pass to gain access to the apartments, and catering to permanent tenants and not transients, and which may furnish dining room service for the exclusive use of its tenants by previous arrangement and not to anyone who may apply.

Apartment house. See dwelling, multiple.

Boardinghouse. Any dwelling in which more than three (3) persons, either individually or as families, are housed or lodged for hire with or without meals. A rooming house, a lodging house, or a furnished room house shall be deemed a boardinghouse.

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

Building area. The total of areas taken on a horizontal plane at the main grade level of the principal building and all accessory buildings exclusive of uncovered porches, terraces and steps.

Buildable area. The area of that part of the lot not included within the yards or open spaces herein required.

Building, height of 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.

Carport. A canopy or shed open on three (3) sides and attached to the main building, for the purpose of providing shelter for one (1) or more motor vehicles.

Clinic. A building or portion thereof designed for, constructed or under construction or alteration for, or used by two (2) or more physicians, surgeons, dentists, psychiatrists, physiotherapists, or practitioners in related specialties, or a combination of persons in these professions.

Clubs. Private recreational buildings and areas operated by membership organizations for the benefit of their membership and not for gain. The term shall include country clubs and lodges. In conjunction with such a club, a dining room may be operated, provided it is incidental to the activities of the club and is conducted for the benefit of the members thereof only; and further provided no sign is displayed advertising such activity.

District. Any section of the incorporated area in which the zoning regulations are uniform.

Dwelling. Any building which is designed for or used exclusively for residential purposes. For the purpose of this chapter such buildings shall have a minimum area of 800 square feet.

Dwelling, single-family. A detached building designed for or occupied exclusively by one (1) family.

Dwelling, multiple-family. A building used or designed as a residence for two (2) or more families living independently of each other and doing their own cooking therein, including apartment houses, apartment hotels, flats and group houses.

Extraction. The removal from the premises of sand, gravel, shells, top-soil minerals, or other natural resources from a lot or a part thereof.

Family. One (1) or more persons who are related by blood or marriage living together and occupying a single housekeeping unit with single culinary facilities, or a group of not more than four (4) persons living together by joint agreement and occupying a single housekeeping unit with single culinary facilities on a nonprofit, cost-sharing basis. The usual domestic servants residing on the premises shall be considered as part of the family.

Farm. Any parcel of land which is used for gain in the raising of agricultural products, livestock, poultry and dairy products. It includes necessary farm structures within the prescribed limits and the storage of equipment used. It excludes the raising of fur-bearing animals, riding academies, livery or boarding stables, and dog kennels.

Filling station. Any building or land used for the dispensing, sale or offering for sale at retail of any automobile fuels, lubricants, or tires, except that indoor car washing, minor motor adjustment, and flat tire repair may be performed when incidental to the conduct of a filling station.

Floor area. The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of the main building but not including the area of roofed porches, terraces or breezeways. All dimensions shall be measured between exterior faces of the walls.

Garage, parking. A building, land or portion thereof designed or used for the temporary storage of motor driven vehicles, with or without the retail dispensing, sale or offering for sale of motor fuels, lubricants, and tires, or indoor car washing, minor motor adjustment, and flat tire repair when such operations are incidental to the storage of motor driven vehicles.

Garage, private. An enclosed space for the storage of not more than three (3) motor vehicles; provided that no business, occupation or service is conducted for profit therein nor space therein for more than one (1) car is leased to a nonresident of the premises.

Garage, public. A building, land or portion thereof other than a private or storage garage, designed or used for equipping, servicing, repairing, hiring, selling or storing motor driven vehicles.

Garage, storage. An enclosed space for the storage of three (3) or more motor vehicles pursuant to previous arrangement and not to transients, and at which automobile fuels and oils are not sold and motor vehicles are not equipped, repaired, hired or sold.

Grade, finished. The completed surfaces of lawns, walks and roads brought to grades as shown on official plans or designs relating thereto.

Home occupation. An accessory use of a service character customarily conducted within a dwelling by the residents thereof, which is clearly secondary to the use of the dwelling for living purposes and does not change the character thereof or have any exterior evidence of such secondary use other than a small nameplate and in connection therewith, there is not involved the keeping of a stock in trade. The office of a physician, surgeon, dentist or other professional person, who offers skilled services to clients and is not professionally engaged in the purchase or sale of economic goods, including violin, piano, or other individual musical instrument instruction limited to a single pupil at a time, shall be deemed to be home occupations; and the occupations of dressmaker, milliner, seamstress or beauty parlors, each with not more than one (1) paid assistant shall also be deemed to be home occupations. The following shall not be interpreted to be home occupations: dancing instruction, band instrument instruction in groups, tea rooms, tourist homes, real estate offices, convalescent homes, mortuary establishments, stores, trades or business of any kind not herein excepted.

Hospital. Unless otherwise specified, the term "hospital" shall be deemed to include sanitarium, sanatorium, preventorium, clinic, rest home and nursing home for the diagnosis, treatment or other care of ailments, and shall be deemed to be limited to places for the diagnosis, treatment or other care of human ailments.

Hotel. A building containing rooms intended or designed to be used or which are used, rented or hired out to be occupied, or which are occupied for sleeping purposes by guests and transients and where only a general kitchen and dining room are provided within the building or in an accessory building.

Institution. A building or group of buildings designed or used for the nonprofit, charitable or public service purposes of providing board, lodging and health care for persons aged, indigent or infirm; or a building or group of buildings for the purpose of performing educational or religious services and offering board and lodging to persons enrolled for training.

Junk yard. The use of more than two hundred (200) square feet of the area of any lot, whether inside or outside of a building, or the use of any portion of that half of any lot that joins any street, for the storage, keeping or abandonment of junk, including scrap metals or other scrap materials, or the dismantling, demolition, or abandonment of automobiles or other vehicles or machinery or parts thereof.

Kennel. The keeping of more than three (3) dogs that are more than six (6) months old.

Laundromat. Business premises equipped with individual clothes washing machines for the use of retail customers, exclusive of laundry facilities provided as an accessory use in an apartment house or an apartment hotel.

Light manufacturing. The manufacturing or processing of materials employing electricity or other unobjectionable motive power, utilizing hand labor or unobjectionable machinery or processes, and free from any objectionable odors, fumes, dirt, vibration or noise.

Line, street. The dividing line between the street and the lot.

Lot. A parcel of land occupied or capable of being occupied by one (1) building, and the accessory buildings or uses customarily incident to it, including such open spaces as are required by this chapter.

Lot, corner. A lot abutting upon two (2) or more streets at their intersection.

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

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

Lot, through. An interior lot having frontage on two (2) parallel or approximately parallel streets.

Lot, width of. The mean width measured at right angles to its depth.

Lot lines. The lines bounding a lot as defined herein.

Lot of record. A lot which is part of a subdivision, the map of which has been recorded in the office of the parish clerk of court; or a parcel of land which became legally established and defined by deed of act of sale on or before the adoption of this chapter.

Nonconforming use. A structure or land lawfully occupied by a use that does not conform to the regulations of the district in which it is situated.

Parking space. An off-street area available for the parking of one (1) motor vehicle and having an area of not less than two hundred (200) square feet exclusive of passageways and driveways appurtenant thereto and giving access thereto, and having direct access to a street or alley.

Personal service shops. Business establishments such as barber shops, beauty parlors, chiropody, massage or similar personal service shops.

Real value. The value determined by an agreement of two (2) representatives of the property owners and two (2) representatives of the city council at the time of the required replacement.

Restaurant. A retail establishment offering food or beverages or both, for consumption on the premises. Restaurants do not include barrooms, night clubs or lounges.

Retail manufacturing. Baking, confectionery, dressmaking, dyeing, laundry, dry cleaning, printing, tailoring, upholstering, and similar establishments, and business of a similar and no more objectionable character subject to the following provisions:

a.

All goods or products manufactured or processed shall be sold at retail on the premises.

b.

All such manufacturing or processing shall be done on the premises, and not more than five (5) persons shall be employed at any one (1) time.

Schools, business. Privately owned schools offering instruction in accounting, secretarial work, business administration, the fine or illustrative arts, trades, dancing, music and similar subjects.

School, private. Privately owned schools having a curriculum essentially the same as ordinarily given in a public elementary or high school. The term includes day nurseries and kindergartens.

Structural alterations. Any change or rearrangement in the bearing walls, partitions, columns, beams, girders, exit facilities, exterior walls or roof of a building excepting such repair as may be required for the safety of the building or an enlargement, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or movement of the building from one (1) location or position to another.

Sign. Any device for visual communication that is used for the purpose of bringing the subject thereof to the attention of the public, but not including any flag, badge, insignia or bulletin board of any government or government agency, or of any civic, charitable, religious, patriotic, fraternal or similar organization.

Sign, advertising. A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity, service, or entertainment conducted, sold, or offered elsewhere than on the premises and only incidentally on the premises if at all.

Sign, business. A sign which directs attention to a business or profession conducted on the premises. A "For Sale" or a "To Let" sign relating to the property on which it is displayed shall be deemed a "business sign."

Street. A public or private thoroughfare which affords the principal means of access to abutting property.

Structure. A combination of materials other than a building to form a construction that is safe and stable and includes among other things stadiums, platforms, radio towers, sheds, storage bins, fences and display signs.

Theater, drive-in. An open lot or part thereof, with its appurtenant facilities, devoted primarily to the showing of moving pictures or theatrical productions on a paid admission basis, to patrons seated in automobiles or on outdoor seats.

Tourist court. A group of attached or detached buildings designed, constructed or under construction or alteration for guest rooms or dwelling units intended primarily for automobile transients, each unit having a separate entrance opening out-of-doors or into a foyer, with parking space appropriately located on the lot for use by guests of the court operation of such court to be supervised by a person in charge at all hours. Tourist courts include auto courts, motels, motor courts, motor hotels and motor inns.

Tourist home. A dwelling in which overnight accommodations are provided or offered for transient guests for compensation.

Trailer park. An area providing spaces where one (1) or more auto trailers can be or are intended to be parked, with flush toilet and bathing facilities provided on the site.

Trailer. Any vehicle, covered or uncovered, used for living, sleeping, business or storage purposes, having no foundation other than wheels, blocks, skids, jacks, horses, or skirtings and which is, has been, or reasonably may be equipped with wheels or other devices for transporting the vehicle from place to place, whether by motive power or other means. The term "trailer" shall include camper, car, and house car.

Yard, front. A yard extending across the front of a lot between the side lot lines, and being the required minimum horizontal distance between the street or place line and the maximum permissible main building. On corner lots the front yard shall be provided facing the street upon which the lot has its lesser dimension.

Yard, rear. A yard extending across the rear of a lot between the side lot lines, and being the required minimum horizontal distance between the rear lot line and the rear of the maximum permissible main building. On both corner lots and interior lots the rear yard shall in all cases be at the opposite end of the lot from the front yard.

Yard, side. A yard between the main building and the side lot lines and extending from the required front yard to the required rear yard, and being the required minimum horizontal distance between a side lot line and the side of the maximum permissible main building.

(Ord. No. 186, 10/10/68, Art. II)