Athens City Code

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Building means any structure built for the support, shelter, housing, or enclosure of persons, animals, or property of any kind.

Commission means the planning commission of the city.

Dwelling means a building or portion thereof which is designed or used exclusively for residential purposes.

Dwelling unit means a group of one or more rooms designed for or intended for occupancy by a single family.

Floodplain means that area of a streambed or its adjoining land that is subject to recurrent overflow or inundation in time of flood.

Row dwelling means one of a series of three or more attached dwelling units under a common roof with a common exterior wall and separated from one another by continuous vertical party walls without openings from basement to roof.

Single-family dwelling means a detached building designed for or intended to be occupied by one family.

Site plan means a plan delineating the overall scheme of development of a tract of land, including, but not limited to, grading, engineering design, construction details, and survey data for existing and proposed improvements; size, height, shape and location of buildings; location and design of parking areas, pedestrian and vehicular circulation on site, and circulation for emergency apparatus.

Structure means anything which is built or constructed (an assembly of materials or any piece of work artificially built up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner).

Two-family dwelling means a building designed for, or intended to be occupied by, not over two families living independently of each other. The term "two-family dwelling" includes both duplex (one dwelling unit above another) and semidetached (two dwelling units having a common vertical party wall).