The words defined are those which have special or limited meanings as used in the Zoning Order, which meanings might not otherwise be clear. Words whose meaning is self-evident as used in the Zoning Order are not defined here:

Accessory Structure or Use: Any structure or use, including outdoor display and/or tent for commercial purposes in conjunction with a principal permitted use, other than the principal structure or use, directly incident to or required for the enjoyment of the permitted use of any premises; also as specifically designated under the zoning district regulations of the Zoning Order. A parked mobile home shall not be considered an accessory building unless specifically permitted by the provisions of the Zoning Order. (Ord. No. 9-98, § 26, 6-2-98)

Agricultural Structure: Any structure or building accessory to the principal structural use of the land. Farm dwellings, however, are principal buildings.

Agriculture: The use of land only—minus agricultural structures—for cultivation of crops, raising of animals, or preservation in its natural state. Associated terms include:

A.

Agribusiness—An enterprise that derives its revenue from sales of agricultural products or sales to agricultural producers

B.

Agritourism business—An income producing commercial enterprise at a working farm for the purpose of providing public enjoyment, education, or active involvement in the activities of the farm or operation.

C.

Agritourism—The act of visiting a working farm or any agricultural, horticultural, or agribusinesses.

D.

Value-added agricultural activities—Any activity or process that allows farmers to retain ownership, but that alters the original farm produced agricultural product or commodity for the purpose of gaining a marketing advantage. Value-added may include bagging, packaging, bundling, precutting, cooking, or chilling.

E.

Agricultural use.

1.

The use of:

(a)

A tract of at least five (5) contiguous acres for the production of agricultural or horticultural crops, including but not limited to livestock, livestock products, poultry, poultry products, grain, hay, pastures, soybeans, tobacco, timber, orchard fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants, including provision for dwellings for persons and their families who are engaged in the agricultural use on the tract, but not including residential building development for sale or lease to the public.

(b)

Regardless of the size of the tract of land used, small wineries licensed under KRS 243.155, and farm wineries licensed under the provisions of KRS 243.156.

(c)

A tract of at least five (5) contiguous acres used for the following activities involving horses:

(1)

Riding lessons;

(2)

Rides;

(3)

Training;

(4)

Projects for educational purposes;

(5)

Boarding and related care; or

(6)

Shows, competitions, sporting events, and similar activities that are associated with youth and amateur programs, none of which are regulated by KRS Chapter 230, involving seventy (70) or less participants, Shows, competitions, sporting events, and similar activities that are associated with youth and amateur programs, none of which are regulated by KRS Chapter 230, involving more than seventy (70) participants shall be subject to local applicable zoning regulations.

(d)

A tract of land used for the following activities involving horses:

(1)

Riding lessons;

(2)

Rides;

(3)

Training;

(4)

Projects for educational purposes;

(5)

Boarding and related care;

(6)

Shows, competitions, sporting events, and similar activities that are associated with youth and amateur programs, none of which are regulated by KRS Chapter 230, involving seventy (70) or less participants. Shows, competitions, sporting events, and similar activities that are associated with youth and amateur programs, none of which are regulated by KRS Chapter 230, involving more than seventy (70) participants shall be subject to local applicable zoning regulations. This paragraph shall only apply to acreage that was being used for these activities before July 13, 2004. (Ord. No. 3-2008, § I, 3-18-08)

Alteration: Any change or addition to the supporting members or foundation of a structure.

Automobile and Truck Repair, Major: Repair of vehicles including rebuilding or reconditioning of engines and transmissions, or major overhaul in which the engine, transmission, or other major components are removed entirely from the vehicle; collision services including body or frame straightening or repair, and/or automotive painting of any kind, (including the use of paint booths). (Ord. No. 18-95, § I.4, 7-5-95)

Automobile and Truck Repair, Minor: Incidental repair, adjustment to a vehicle's operational systems, including replacement of parts, motor service to passenger vehicles and trucks not exceeding one and one-half (1½) ton, but not including any activity contained in the definition of "Automobile and truck repair, major," or any other similar activity, nor any repair requiring outside storage of a vehicle for more than ninety-six (96) hours. (Ord. No. 18-95, § I.4, 7-5-95)

A-Weighted Sound Pressure Level: The sound pressure level as measured with a sound level meter using the A-weighting network. The standard notation is dB(A) or dBA. (Ord. No. 20-82, § 4, 9-28-82)

Bed and Breakfast Home: A use located in an existing structure originally a single family dwelling which provides short-term transient lodging, including serving only breakfast to overnight guests, for which a fee is paid and subject to the following conditions:

1.

The use shall be secondary to the dwelling.

2.

The use shall be carried only by owners with at least a fifty-one (51) per cent ownership interest, and who reside on the premises.

3.

The use shall not require external alteration of the dwelling except as may be required to meet fire and building codes.

4.

Each room to be rented shall have no cooking facilities and be designed and intended to accommodate no more that one family unit.

5.

Each room shall be rented for no longer than seven (7) consecutive days to a guest.

6.

The use shall not adversely affect the uses permitted in the immediate neighborhood by excessive traffic generation, noise, lights.

7.

The owner-operator shall maintain a guest log and other records, which shall be subject to annual review and inspection.

8.

The use shall not be conducted within any accessory building except for such an accessory building at least fifty (50) years old that was originally constructed in full or part as a dwelling.

9.

The conditional use permit shall become null and void upon the sale or transfer of the property.

10.

All off-street parking areas shall be screened from streets and adjacent property in accordance with Article 13 and not located in the required front or side yards.

11.

The use shall be in compliance with all applicable state and local laws, including Health Department rules and regulations.

12.

No sleeping rooms (as defined in Article 12) shall be permitted. (Ord. No. 1-98, § 11, 1-20-98)

Brewpub: A restaurant that brews beer as an accessory use, either for consumption on-site or in sealed containers in quantities up to one-half (½) barrel sold directly to the consumer. Production capacity is limited to five thousand (5,000) barrels of beverage (all beverages combined) per year. The area used for brewing, bottling, and kegging shall not exceed thirty (30) per cent of the total floor area of the commercial space. A barrel is equivalent to thirty-one (31) gallons.
(Ord. No. 4-2014, 5-6-14)

Building: Any structure which fully encloses space for the occupancy by persons or their activities. A mobile home is not a building, however.

Cannabis Cultivator means an entity licensed by the State of Kentucky pursuant to the Kentucky Revised Statute and 915 KAR 1:030 to plant, grow, cultivate, raise, harvest, trim, store, test, package, label, transfer, transport, sell medical cannabis seed, seedlings, medicinal plant, medicinal cannabis, or medicinal cannabis product to other licensed cannabis business in the state. (Ord. No. 8-2025, 4-15-25)

Cannabis Dispensary means an entity licensed by the State of Kentucky pursuant to Kentucky Revised Statutes and 915 KAR 1:070 to perform retail sales of medicinal cannabis to registered qualified patient or visiting qualified patient as defined by the Kentucky Revised Statutes and corresponding regulations. (Ord. No. 8-2025, 4-15-25)

Cannabis Processor means an entity licensed by the State of Kentucky pursuant to the Kentucky Revised Statutes and 915 KAR 1:040 to process and/or package raw medicinal cannabis plant material or plants into approved forms of medical cannabis under Kentucky Revised Statutes and regulations. (Ord. No. 8-2025, 4-15-25)

Cannabis Producer means an entity licensed by the State of Kentucky pursuant to the Kentucky Revised Statutes and 915 KAR 1:040 which operates as both a cannabis cultivator and processor. (Ord. No. 8-2025, 4-15-25)

Cellular Telecommunications Services: A retail telecommunications service that uses radio signals transmitted through cell sites and mobile switching stations. (Ord. No. 1-2000, § 2, 2-1-00)

Reserved

Editor's note— Ord. No. 17-2014, § 1, adopted Dec. 16, 2014, deleted the definition for "Cluster Development," which derived from Ord. No. 3-99, § 7, adopted March 16, 1999.

Reserved

Editor's note— Ord. No. 17-2014, § 1, adopted Dec. 16, 2014, deleted the definition for "Cluster Envelope," which derived from Ord. No. 3-99, § 7, adopted March 16, 1999.

Co-location: Location of two (2) or more transmission antennae or related equipment on the same telecommunications tower. (Ord. No. 1-2000, § 2, 2-1-00)

Commercial Floor Area: Floor area of buildings which is devoted to the storage and display of merchandise, the performance of consumer services or the circulation and accommodation of customers.

Conditional Use: A use which must receive special approval by the Board of Zoning Adjustment if delegated, in order to be permitted in a zoning district.

Consumer Services: Sale of any service to individual customers for their own personal benefit, enjoyment or convenience, and for fulfillment of their own personal needs. For example consumer services include the provision of the personal services such as beautician and barbering services, the provision of lodging, entertainment, specialized instruction, financial service, automobile storage, transportation, laundry and dry cleaning services, and all other similar services.

Decibel (Db): A unit for describing the loudness of sound, equal to twenty (20) times the logarithm to the base 10 of the ratio of the pressure of the sound measured to the reference pressure, which is twenty (20) micropascals (20 micronewtons per square meter). Zero (0) decibels is the threshold of human hearing. Ten (10) decibels is ten (10) times as loud as zero (0), twenty (20) decibels is one hundred (100) times as loud as zero (0), and one hundred thirty (130) decibels is the threshold of pain. (Ord. No. 20-82, § 4, 9-28-82)

Development Plan: Written and/or graphic material depicting a development of land, including any or all of the following: location and bulk of buildings and other structures, intensity of use, density of development, streets, ways, parking facilities, signs, drainage of surface water, access points, a plan for screening or buffering, utilities, existing man-made and natural conditions, for screening or buffering, utilities, existing man-made and natural conditions, and all other conditions agreed to by the applicant. (Ord. No. 36-87, § 2, 12-10-87)

Development Right: A development right is a simple extension of the rights normally associated with land ownership. When legally established a development right has value separate from the land itself. It can be subject to reasonable regulation by local government under the police power. The development right can be transferred by the owner, by means of gift or sale, to another property. The land owner may sell the development rights and still retain the title to the land and the right to use the land, excluding the right of development. (Ord. No. 3-99, § 7, 3-16-99)

Dwelling: A dwelling is a building providing shelter, sanitation and amenities for permanent habitation, including Class A Mobile Homes, but excluding manufactured homes of Class B, C, and D, and temporary lodging and sleeping rooms. (Ord. No. 29-83, § 8, 12-27-83)

Dwelling Unit: A dwelling unit is a dwelling accommodation within a building designed for one individual or family unit maintaining separate and independent housekeeping. (Ord. No. 29-83, § 2, 12-27-83)

Height: The vertical distance measured from the average finished grade at the front building line to the highest point of the structure.

Home Occupations: Occupations involving personal and professional services, subject to the following conditions: (1) The use is clearly incidental and secondary to the principal residential use; (2) the use is conducted entirely within the dwelling and not in an accessory building; (3) the use is carried on only by residents of the dwelling; (4) no products, commodities or merchandise shall be sold or stored on the premises; (5) the use does not require alteration of the exterior of the dwelling; (6) the use does not adversely affect the neighborhood by generating excessive traffic, atmospheric pollution, light flashes, glare, odors, noise, vibration, or truck or other heavy equipment traffic; (7) adequate off-street parking is provided. (Ord. No. 42-90, 11-27-90)

Home Office: An office use conducted within a dwelling under the following conditions:

1.

The office shall be clearly incidental and secondary to the residential use and shall occupy no more than twenty-five (25) per cent of the total area of the dwelling or five hundred (500) feet, whichever is less.

2.

The use shall be limited to recordkeeping and administrative activities.

3.

The office shall be located within the dwelling unit and not in an accessory building;

4.

The office shall be operated by residents of the dwelling, and no nonresidents may be employed on the premises.

5.

No sale of merchandise shall be conducted on the premises.

6.

No commodities, products or merchandise shall be stored on the premises.

7.

No signs identifying the office shall be displayed on the premises.

8.

Residence shall maintain its residential character and shall not be altered or remodeled so as to change the residential appearance thereof.

9.

No customer traffic shall be generated.

10.

No commercial vehicles shall be parked on the premises. (Ord. No. 42-90, 11-27-90)

Immediate Family Member: Any person bearing the following relationship to grantor: parent, mother/father-in-law, child, grandparent, grandchild, brother or sister. (Ord. No. 3-99, § 7, 3-16-99; Ord. No. 15-2014, § 2, 12-2-14)

Industry: The processing of products or raw materials; the two categories of industry are defined according to the following performance standards:

a.

Heavy Industry—Those industries whose processing operations result in the outdoor storage or processing of materials or products, the emission of any atmospheric pollution, visible light flashes or glare, odors, or noise or vibration which may be heard or felt off the premises, or those industries which constitute a fire or explosion hazard.

b.

Light Industry— Those industries whose processing operations result in none of the above conditions.

Junkyard: The outdoor storage of inoperative machinery.

Kennel: Facility for conducting the business of the sale and temporary boarding of more than three (3) household pets. (Ord. No. 9-98, § 26, 6-2-98)

Lot: A parcel of land under one ownership devoted to a common use or occupied by a single principal building plus accessory structures.

Lot Area: The computed ground area inside the lot lines.

Lot, Corner: A lot which abuts on two intersecting streets at their intersection.

Lot Coverage: The computed ground area occupied by all buildings within a lot.

Lot Depth: The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines.

Lot, Double-Frontage: Any lot other than a corner lot which abuts on two streets.

Lot Line: The boundary dividing a lot from a right-of-way, adjoining lot, or other adjoining tract of land. Front, rear, and side lot lines are self-explanatory.

Lot of Record: A lot which is recorded in the office of the County Clerk.

Manufactured Home: A manufactured home is a building which is substantially constructed away from the building site, which is designed to be and is transported to such building site and permanently installed thereon for use as a dwelling. The term includes, but is not limited to, mobile home. It also includes housing built away from a building site in two (2) or more sections or modules, commonly known as a modular home. (Ord. No. 29-83, § 8, 12-27-83)

Manufactured Home Complex: A manufactured home complex is a manufactured home park in which the land is owned by the developer and not by the individual occupants. (Ord. No. 29-83, § 8, 12-27-83)

Manufactured Home Park: A manufactured home park is a parcel of land available to the public in which two (2) or more lots are occupied or intended for occupancy by manufactured homes and includes service buildings, structures, enclosures or other facilities used as a part of the park. A park may be a "complex" or a "subdivision" and the term is used interchangeably with both. (Ord. No. 29-83, § 8, 12-27-83)

Manufactured Home Subdivision: A manufactured home subdivision is a manufactured home park designed and operated so that the lots are owned by the individual manufactured home owner. (Ord. No. 29-83, § 8, 12-27-83)

Microbrewery/Microdistillery/Microwinery: Facility for brewing less than fifteen thousand (15,000) barrels of alcoholic beverage per year. May include a tasting room and retail space for the sale of the alcoholic beverage and related merchandise.
(Ord. No. 4-2014, 5-6-14)

Mini-Warehouse: A building divided in cubicles or compartments which are rented or leased to the general public for the storage of goods. (Ord. No. 17-86, § 1(2), 7-24-86)

Mobile Home: A mobile home is a transportable dwelling unit suitable for year-round occupancy, which is manufactured on a chassis or undercarriage as an integral part thereof, containing facilities for water, sewage, bath and electrical conveniences. (Ord. No. 29-83, § 8, 12-27-83)

Mobile Home Park: A tract of land prepared and approved according to the procedures in the Zoning Order to accommodate ten or more mobile homes.

Noise: Any sound which is unwanted or which causes or tends to cause an adverse psychological or physiological effect on human beings. (Ord. No. 20-82, § 4, 9-28-82)

Nonconforming Structures or Uses: A structure or use of any premises which does not conform with all applicable provisions of the Zoning Order but which existed at the time of its designation as nonconforming by the adoption or amendment of the Zoning Order.

Nonretail Commercial: Commercial sales and services to customers who intend resale of the products or merchandise sold or handled. For example, nonretail commercial includes wholesaling, warehousing, truck terminals, and similar commercial enterprises.

Outdoor: Refers to that which is not within a building.

Parking Area or Structure: An off-street area or structure for required parking or loading spaces including driveways, access ways, aisles, parking and maneuvering space, but excluding required front yard, or public right-of-way.

Pet-grooming: The business or practice of performing grooming services for pets or domestic animals, such as bathing, clipping, or combing for the purpose of enhancing their appearance and well-being and for which a fee is charged. Boarding, breeding or medical care is not to be permitted as a part of the pet-grooming service. (Ord. No. 21-2001, 12-18-01)

Planned Development Project: A complex of structures and uses planned as an integral unit or community of development.

Premises: A lot or other tract of land under one ownership and all of the structures on it.

Private Recreation Area: An area devoted to uses such as picnic and parking areas, swimming pools, private clubhouses, tennis courts, refreshment stands, and similar or associated structures and uses.

Processing: Manufacturing, reduction, extraction, packaging, repairing, cleaning, and any other similar original or restorative treatment applied to raw materials, products, or personal property. Processing does not refer to the fabrication of structures, however.

Property Line: An imaginary line along the surface, and its vertical plane extension, which separates the real property owned, rented, or leased by one person from that owned, rented or leased by another person, excluding intra-building real property division. (Ord. No. 20-82, § 4, 9-28-82)

Public-Service Building: Any building necessary for the operation and maintenance of a utility.

Restaurant: An eating establishment where food is served and/or consumed only within the building.

Restaurant, Drive-In: An eating establishment where food is generally served by employees or by self-service on the premises outside the building and generally consumed on the premises outside the building or off of the premises.

Retail Sales: Sale of any product or merchandise to customers for their own personal consumption or use, not for resale.

Road: A traffic-carrying way. As used in the Zoning Order a road may be privately owned.

Roadside Stand: A temporary structure designed or used for the display or sale of agricultural or other products grown or produced on the premises upon which such a stand is located.

Reserved

Editor's note— Ord. No. 17-2014, § 1, adopted Dec. 16, 2014, deleted the definition for "Set-Aside," which derived from Ord. No. 3-99, § 7, adopted March 16, 1999.

Single-Family Dwelling: A single-family dwelling is a dwelling designed for occupancy by a single-family. (Ord. No. 29-83, § 8, 12-27-83)

Sleeping Room: A single room rented for dwelling purposes but without the amenities for separate and independent housekeeping.

Sound Level Meter: An instrument which includes a microphone, amplifier, RMS detector, integrator or time averager, output meter, and weighting networks used to measure sound pressure levels. The output meter reads sound pressure level when properly calibrated, and the instrument must be of type 2 or better, as specified in the American National Standards Institute Publication S1.4-1971, or its successor publications. (Ord. No. 20-82, § 4, 9-28-82)

Street: Any highway or other public traffic-carrying way, an arterial street is any federal, state or county highway unless otherwise designated by the Planning Commission.

Structure: Any combination of materials fabricated to fulfill a function in a fixed location on the land; includes buildings.

TDR Multiple: A method of assigning relative values to development rights when transferred from one area to another. For instance, a TDR multiple of 1.5 means that when a single development right is transferred from one area to another it is given a value equivalent to one and one-half (1½) development rights. As used herein, the word "value" is not intended to suggest monetary value. (Ord. No. 3-99, § 7, 3-16-99)

Telecommunications Tower: A structure constructed for the location of transmission antennae and/or related equipment to be used in the provision of cellular telecommunications services or personal communications services, as defined in 47 U.S.C. Section 332(c), but not including such structures when used for the broadcast of television, AM or FM radio station, citizens band or amateur radio use. (Ord. No. 1-2000, § 2, 2-1-00)

Usable Open Space: That portion of the outdoor of a lot or tract which is designed and used for outdoor living, recreation, pedestrian access or landscaping, but not including off-street parking and loading, driveways or required front and street side yards unless separated from the street right-of-way by a fence or screen planting.

Use: Use broadly refers to the activities which take place on any land or premises and also refers to the structures located thereon and designed for those activities.

Utility: Any person except a city, who owns, controls, or operates or manages any facility used or to be used for or in connection with; the transmission or conveyance over wire, in air, or otherwise, of any message by telephone or telegraph for the public, for compensation (KRS 278.010[3]) (Ord. No. 1-2000, § 2, 2-1-00)

Variance: A departure from the strict conformance with the dimension and area regulations of the Zoning Order which must first receive the approval of the Board of Zoning Adjustment.

Viewshed: The visual field presented by a particular parcel of real estate when viewed from the adjoining public road by a person of average height. (Ord. No. 3-99, § 7, 3-16-99)

Yard, Front: An open space extending the full width of the lot between a building and the front lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward except as hereinbefore specified. The depth of a front yard is the shortest distance, measured horizontally between any part of a building exclusive of such parts herein excepted and the front lot line.

Yard, Rear: An open space extending the full width of a lot between a building and the rear lot line, unoccupied and obstructed from the ground upward except as hereinbefore specified. The depth of a rear yard is the shortest distance, measured horizontally between any part of a building exclusive of such parts herein excepted and the rear lot line.

Yard, Side: An open space between a building and a side lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward except as herein specified. The width of a side yard is the shortest distance, measured horizontally, between any part of a building exclusive of such parts herein excepted and the nearest side lot line.

(Ord. No. 19-86, § 4, 9-15-86; Ord. No. 4-92, § 2, 3-11-92)