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ARTICLE 1. General
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<br /> d. Block. The properties abutting on one side of a street and lying
<br /> between the two nearest intersecting or intercepting streets, or
<br /> nearest intersecting or intercepting street and railroad right of
<br /> way, unsubdivided land, watercourse, or city boundary.
<br /> e. Building. Any structure having a roof supported by colums or
<br /> walls, for the housing or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels,
<br /> or property of any kind.
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<br /> 1.105.3.
<br /> a. Business s~gn. A sign devoted to directing attention to a busi-
<br /> ness, profession, commodity, or service that is the primary
<br /> business, profession, commodity, or service sold, manufactured,
<br /> conducted, or offered on the site on, which the sign is located.
<br /> b. ,Charitable institution. A nonprofit institution devoted to the
<br /> housing, training, or care of children, or of aged ,indigent,
<br /> handicapped, or underprivileged persons, but not including
<br /> lodging houses, or dormitories providing temporary quarters
<br /> for transient persuns, organizations devoted to collecting or sal-
<br /> vaging new or used materials, or organizations devoted princi-
<br /> pally to distributing food, clothlng, or supplies on a charitable
<br /> basis.
<br /> c. Court. An un,occupied open space on the same site with a build-
<br /> ing, which is bounded on three or more sides by exterior build-
<br /> ing walls.
<br /> d. Depth. The horizontal distance between the front and rear prop-
<br /> erty lines of a site measured along a line midway between, the
<br /> side property lines.
<br /> e. District. A portion of the city within which the use of land and
<br /> structures and the location, height, and bulk of structures are
<br /> governed by this ordinance.
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<br /> 1.105.4.
<br /> a. Drive.in. An establishment selIing food or beverages to custom-
<br /> ers, some or all of whom customarily consume their purchases
<br /> outdoors in or near their cars.
<br /> b. Driveway. A private road, the use of which is limited to persons
<br /> residing or working on the site and their invitees, licensees and
<br /> business visitors, and which provides access to off-street park-
<br /> ing or loading facilities.
<br /> e. Dwelling. A one-family or multi-family dwelilng other than mo-
<br /> bile homes, automo.bile trailers, hotels, motels, labor camps,
<br /> camp cars, tents, railroad cars, and temporary structures.
<br /> d. Dwelling unit. One or more rooms with a single kitchen,
<br /> signed for occupancy by one family for living and sleeping
<br /> purposes.
<br /> e. Family. An individual or two or more persons related by blood,
<br /> marriage or adoption, or a group of not more than five persons,
<br /> not including servants, who need not be related, living as a
<br /> single housekeeping unit.
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<br /> 1.105.$.
<br /> a. Floor area, basic. The totaI amount of gross floor area a build-
<br /> ing contains, expressed as a percentage of the total area of the
<br /> lot.
<br /> b. Floor area, gross~ The sum of the gross horizontal area of the
<br /> several floors of a building and its accessory buildings on the
<br /> same site excinding: basement'or cellar areas used only for stor-
<br /> age; space used for off-street parking or loading; steps, patios,
<br /> decks, terraces, porches, and exteriur balconies, if not enclosed
<br /> on more than three sides. Unless excepted above, floor area in-
<br /> cludes but is not limited to elevator shafts and stairwells mea-
<br /> sured at each floor (but not mechauical shafts), penthouses,
<br /> enclosed porches, interior baleonies, and mezzanines.
<br /> c. Frontage. The property line of a site abutting on a street, other
<br /> than the side line of a corner lot. Frontage shall be measured
<br /> as the shortest distance between the points at which the side
<br /> property lines intersect the street property line.
<br /> d. Garage or carport. A Class I accessory structure er a portion
<br /> of a main structure, having a permanent roof, and designed for
<br /> the storage of motor vehicles.
<br /> e. Garage, repair. A structure or part thereof where motor vehi-
<br /> cles or parts thereof are repaired or painted.
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<br />1.105.6.
<br /> a. Garage parking. A structure or part thereof used for the stet-
<br /> age, parking or servicing of motor vehicles, but not for the re-
<br /> pair thereof.
<br /> b. Habitable room. A room meeting the requirements of the Uni-
<br /> form Building Code, for sleeping, living, cooking or dining put-
<br /> poses excluding such enclosed spaces as closets, pantries, hath
<br /> or toilet rooms, service rooms, connecting corridors, laundries,
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<br /> unfinished attics foyers, storage spaces, cellars, utility r(
<br /> and similar spaces.
<br /> c. Home o~cupation. The conduct of an art or profession, th
<br /> fering of a sewice, the conduct of a business, or the hand~
<br /> manufacture of products in a dwelling in accord with the
<br /> lations prescribed in Article 19, (Home Occupations).
<br /> d. Hotel (See motel.)
<br /> e. IHumination, diffused. Illumination by means of light w
<br /> travels through a material other than the bulb or tubing
<br /> essary to enclose the light source so that the light is sp
<br /> evenly over the surface of the diffusing material
<br /> f. Illumination, direct. Illumination by means of light which
<br /> els directly from its source to the viewer's eye.
<br /> g. Illumination, indirect. Illumination by means only of light
<br /> upon an opaque surface from a concealed source.
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<br /> 1.105.7
<br /> a. Intersection, street. The area common to two or more inte~
<br /> ting streets.
<br /> b. Junk yard. A site or portion of a site on which waste, discar~
<br /> or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, bz
<br /> cleaned, packed, disassembled, or handled, including used
<br /> nituro and household equipment yards, house wrecking ya
<br /> used lumber yards, and the like; excepting a site on which
<br /> uses are conducted within a completely enclosed structure
<br /> excepting motor vehicle wrecking yards as defined in this
<br /> tion. An establishment for the sale, purchase, or storage of
<br /> cars or salvaged machinery in operable condition and the p
<br /> essing of used or salvaged materials as part of a manufac
<br /> ing operation, sba11 not be deemed a junk yard.
<br /> c. Kennel. Any premises, except where accessory to a permi~
<br /> or conditional agricultural use, where any combination of
<br /> or cats totaling four or more animals four months of age
<br /> older are kept.
<br /> d. Living room. The principal room designed for general lit
<br /> purposes in a dwelling unit. Each dwelling unit shall hay
<br /> living room.
<br /> e. Lodging house. A dwelling in which lodging or lodging
<br /> meals are provided for compensation for more than three
<br /> not more than 15 persons other than members of the resid
<br /> family, excepting a nursing home as defined in this sectior
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<br /> 1.105.8.
<br /> a. I~t. (See site.)
<br /> b. Lot, corner. A site bounded by two or more adjacent street Ii
<br /> which have an angle of intersection of not more than
<br /> degrees.
<br /> c. Lot, double frontage. An interior lot having frontage on
<br /> parallel or approximately parallel streets. For the purpose
<br /> determining front yard requirements, each frontage from wh
<br /> access is permitted shall be deemed a front lot line.
<br /> d. Lot, interior. A lot other than a corner lot.
<br /> e. Lot, key. The first interior lot to the rear of a reversed corJ
<br /> lot.
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<br />1.105.9.
<br /> a. Lot, reversed corner. A corner lot the side line of which is
<br /> stantially a continuation of the front property line of the fi
<br /> let to its rear.
<br /> b. I~t line, front. A line separating an interior lot from
<br /> street, or a line separating either the narrower or the wit
<br /> street frontage of a corner lot from a street at the option of t
<br /> owner.
<br /> c. Lot line, rear. A lot line, not a front or side lot line, which
<br /> generally opposite the front lot line, and is not necessarily
<br /> straight line.
<br /> d. Lot line, side. Any Iot line which is not a front lot line or
<br /> rear lot line.
<br /> e. Motel or l~otei. A structure or portion thereof or a group of
<br /> tached or detached structures containing completely furnish
<br /> individual guest rooms or suites, occupied on a transient ba~,
<br /> for compensation, and in which more than 60 per cent of
<br /> individual guest rooms and suites are without kitchens or
<br /> lng facilities.
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<br />1.195.10.
<br /> a. M~tor vehicIe wrecking yard. A site or portion of a site
<br /> which the dismanfling or wrecking of used vehicles, wheth,
<br /> self-propelled or not, or the storage, sale, or dumping of dj
<br /> mantled or wrecked ~ehicles or their parts is conducted. T1
<br /> presence outside a fully enclosed structure of three or mo~
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