Zoning Ordinance

AGRICULTURE: The production, keeping or maintenance, for sale, lease or personal use, of plants and animals useful to man, including but not limited to: forages and sod crops; grains and seed crops; dairy animals and dairy products, poultry and poultry products; livestock, including beef cattle, sheep, swine, horses, ponies, mules, or goats, or any mutations or hybrids thereof, including the breeding and grazing of any or all such animals; bees and apiary products; fur animals; trees and forest products; fruits of all kinds, including grapes, nuts, berries; vegetables, nursery, floral, ornamental and greenhouse products; or lands devoted to a soil conservation or forestry management program.

ALLEY: A minor right-of-way less than fifty (50) feet in width, dedicated to public use, which affords a secondary means of vehicular access to the back or side of properties otherwise abutting a street, and which may be used for public utility purposes.

AMUSEMENTS: Establishment engaged in providing amusements or entertainment as a commercial business for a fee or admission charge and includes such activities as dance halls, studios, theatrical procedures, bands, orchestras, and other musical entertainment, bowling alleys, billiards and pool establishments, commercial sports such as arenas, rings, racetracks, and amusement parks, riding academies, carnivals operations, expositions, game parlors, coin-operated devices, and horse shows.

AREA, BUILDING: The total 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.

AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR FACILITY: A facility which is used for painting, body and fender work, engine overhaul or other repair of a motor vehicle.

AUTOMOBILE SERVICE FACILITY: A facility that sales from its premises goods and the provisions of service that are generally required in the operation and maintenance of automotive vehicles and the fulfilling of motorists’ needs. This includes the sale of petroleum products, tires, batteries, automotive accessories, and replacement items, lubricating services and the minor repair of vehicles. This does not include heavy automotive maintenance such as engine overhaul, automotive painting, and body work, the storage of vehicles not in operating condition, or other work involving noise, glare, fumes, smoke, or other characteristics beyond an extent normally found in automotive service stations.

AUTOMOBILE WRECKING: The dismantling, storage, sale or dumping of used motor vehicles, trailers, or parts thereof.

AUTOMOBILE WRECKING, JUNK, AND SALVAGE YARDS: Any lot of place which is exposed to the weather and upon which more than five motor vehicles of any kind, incapable of being operated, and which it would not be economically feasible to make operative, are placed, located, or found.

AVERAGE GROUND ELEVATION: The elevation of the mean finished grade at the front of a structure.

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