For the purpose of this chapter certain terms or words used herein shall be interpreted and defined as follows, unless the context requires otherwise:

1.   “Accessory buildings or structure” means a building or structure which is associated with a specific allowed use or building on the same site.

2.   “Accessory use” is a use customarily incidental and subordinate to the main use or building and located on the same lot therewith. In no case shall such accessory use dominate, in area, extent or purpose, the principal lawful use or building.

3.   “Building” means any structure designed or intended for the support, enclosure, shelter, or protection of persons, animals, or property, but not including signs or billboards and not including structures or vehicles originally designed for transportation purposes.

4.   “Dwelling” is a building with a permanent foundation or crawl space used as living quarters for one or more families not including auto courts, rooming houses or tourist homes.

5.   “Duplex” means a legally-described lot for two dwelling units, each occupied by one household within a single building, excluding manufactured or mobile home units, but including modular housing units.

6.   “Garage” is a structure primarily designed for parking and storage of automotive vehicles and related uses and may be attached (and therefore part of the principal building) or detached (and therefore an accessory building).

7.   “Lot” includes the word plat and parcel.

8.   “Professional office building” is a building occupied and used by the following professions: lawyers, medical doctors, dentists, chiropractors, insurance agents, engineers, accountants, abstractors of title to real estate, and federal, State and local governmental offices for the conduct of governmental business.

9.   “Structure” means 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, signs.

10.   “Used” and “occupied” as applied to any land or building shall be construed to include the words intended, arranged, or designed to be used or occupied.

11.   “Yard; required.” That portion of a lot which lies between a lot line and the corresponding building setback line or the required landscape area. This area shall be unoccupied and unobstructed by permitted uses, accessory uses or conditional uses, or anything specifically regulated by this ordinance.

   A.   “Front yard” means the space extending the full width of a lot between the principal building foundation line and the front lot line. For a corner lot, the front yard shall normally be defined as that yard along a street which meets one of the following two criteria:

      (1)   The yard along the blockface to which a greater number of structures are oriented; or

      (2)   The yard along a street that has the smaller horizontal dimension.

   B.   “Rear yard” means the space extending the full width of a lot between the principal building foundation line and the rear lot line.

   C.   “Side yard” means the space extending from the front yard to the rear yard between the principal building and the side lot line.

   D.   “Street side yard” means on a corner lot, the space extending from the front yard to the rear lot line, between the principal building and the street side lot line.