CHAPTER 1475

Definitions

1475.01 Words and phrases defined.

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1475.01 WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED.

The terms, phrases, and words, and their derivatives, used in this , Zoning Ordinance shall have the meaning given herein. Terms, phrases and words not specifically defined in this chapter shall have the ordinarily accepted meanings given in a standard dictionary and implied by the context in this Code.

1. "Acceptable or accepted", when not further qualified and applied to a material device or mode of construction, means acceptable to the Housing Inspector pursuant to this Code, or acceptable to any other authority designated by law or this Code to give acceptance in the matter in question.

2. "Accessory Building" means a detached structure located on or partially on any premises and which is not used or not intended to be used for living or sleeping by human occupants.

3. "Alley" A public or private thoroughfare which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.

4. "Approved" means in accordance with this Housing Code, as determined by the Housing Inspector or any other authority designated by law or this code to give such approval.

5. Area.

a. "Floor area" means the total area of all stories or floors finished as living accommodations, measured to the outside of exterior walls or the center of party walls.

b. "Area of a building" means the floor area taken at mean grade level.

c. "Room area" means the floor area of a room measured inside from rough to rough.

6. "Basement" means a space with a floor level two feet or more below the adjoining ground, but having less than half its clear height below the average grade of the adjoining ground.

7. "Board" means the Zoning Board of Affairs.

8. "Board of Health" means the Board of Health of the Columbiana County Health District.

9. "Boarding House" A building, other than a hotel, or apartment hotel where, for compensation and by rearrangement for definite periods, lodging, meals, or lodging and meals are provided for three or more persons.

10. "Building" Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls for shelter or enclosure of persons or property.

11. "Cellar" means the part of a building having half or more than half of its clear height below the average grade of the adjoining ground.

12. "Conditional Use" A use allowed in a Zoning District after a permit is granted by the Zoning Board of Affairs.

13. "Council" means the legislative authority of the Village.

14. "District" Means a part of the Village wherein regulations of this Ordinance are divided among.

15. "Dormitory" means a room in a dwelling used as a sleeping room or for sleeping purposes by four or more related persons.

16. "Double House" means a two-family dwelling in which the living units are side by side, each unit having open spaces on atleast three sides.

17. "Dwelling" means any enclosed space which is wholly or partly used or intended to be used for living or sleeping by human occupants, provided that temporary housing, as defined hereinafter, shall not be regarded as a dwelling.

18. "Dwelling - Single Family" A building designed for or occupied exclusively by one family.

19. "Dwelling - Two Family" A building designed for or occupied exclusively for two families.

20. "Dwelling - Multiple Family" A building designed for or occupied exclusively by three or more families.

21. "Dwelling Unit" means any room or group of rooms located within a dwelling and forming a s single habitable unit with facilities which are used for living, sleeping, cooking and eating of meals.

22. "Enforcement Officer" means the official designated herein, or his authorized representative, who is charge with the responsibility of administering the Zoning Ordinance.

23. "Exterior property areas" means the open spaces on the premises under the control of owner or operators of such premises.

24. "Family" means atleast one adult and usually one or more persons legally related to such adult and living in the same dwelling unit.

25. "Fence" A vertical structure normally erected for privacy or the enclosure of an area.

26. "Flat" means a two family dwelling, or any floor of same, two stories in height, with each floor containing a complete dwelling unit.

27. "Floor Space" see Floor Area

28. "Flush water closet" means a toilet bowl flushed with water under pressure with a water sealed trap above the floor level. Such toilet bowl shall have a smooth, easily cleaned surface.

29. "Garage" A detached accessory or portion of a main building housing the automobiles of the occupants of the premises, but not commercial vehicles.

30. "Grade" The average level of the finished surface of the ground adjacent to the exterior walls of the building.

31. "Gross floor area" means the total area of all habitable space in a building or structure.

32. "Guest" means any person who shares a dwelling unit in a nonpermanent status for not more than thirty days.

33. "Habitable Room: means a room or enclosed floor space used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking or eating purposes, excluding bathrooms, water closet compartments, laundries, furnace rooms, pantries, kitchenettes, and utility rooms of less than fifty square feet, foyers or communicating corridors, stairways, closets and storage spaces and workshops, hobby and recreation areas in unsealed or uninsulated parts of a structure below ground level or in an attic.

34. "Health Commissioner" means the Health Commissioner of the Columbiana County Health District or his authorized representative.

35. "Home Occupation" Employment performed by the owner on his/her own private Residential Dwelling.

36. "Hotel" means a building or part thereof operated as a public inn and containing ten or more rooms for hire to guest, usually transient.

37. "Housing Inspector" means the official, or his authorized representative, designated by the Village to enforce this Housing Code.

38. ""Infestation"" means the presence within or around a dwelling of any insects, rodents, vermin or other pests.

39. "Junk" means any worn out, cast off or discarded article or material which is ready for destruction or has been collected or stored for salvage or conversion to use.

40. "Landscaped Area" An area that is maintained and permanently devoted to the growing of shrubbery , grass, and other plant material.

41. "Living Area" means a dwelling or portion thereof providing separate living, cooking, eating, sleeping and sanitary facilities for one family.

42. "Loading Space" A space within the main building or on the same lot for the standing, loading, or unloading of trucks, having a minimum area of 540 square feet, a minimum width of 12 feet, a minimum depth of 35 feet, and a vertical clear4ance of atleast 14.5 feet.

43. "Lot" A parcel of land occupied or intended for occupancy by a use permitted in this Ordinance. Including one main building together with its accessory building, open spaces and parking spaces required by this Ordinance, and having its principal frontage upon a road or street.

44. "Motel" means a building similar to a hotel but having particularly convenient parking area for automobiles.

45. "Multiple Dwelling" means a building containing more than two dwelling units and/or rooming units.

46. "Non" is a preferred prefix to but used with "combustible and flammable", rather the prefix "in" which has confusing meanings.

47. "Non Conforming Use" the lawful use of land or a building or a portion thereof, which use does not conform with the regulations of the district which it is located.

48. "Occupant" means any person, over one year of age, living , sleeping, cooking, eating in or having actual possession of a dwelling unit or rooming unit.

49. "Operator" means any person who has charge, care, control or management of a building or part thereof in which dwelling units or rooming units are let.

50. "Owner" means any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others, has Legal title to any building or dwelling unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof.

51. "Person" means an individual, firm, corporation, association or partnership.

52. "Premises" means a lot, plot or parcel of land, including the buildings or structures thereon.

53. "Privacy" means a condition or arrangement which affords a person or person the ability to carry out an activity without interruption or interference, either by sight or sound, by unwanted persons.

54. "Rooming House" means any dwelling or part therof containing one or more rooming units, and/or one or more dormitory rooms.

55. "Rooming Unit" means any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit used or intended to be used for living and sleeping, but not for cooking purposes.

56. "Safety" means the conditon of being free from danger and hazards which may cause accidents or disease.

57. "Sign" An Identification, description, illustration, or device which is affixed to, or represented directly or indirectly upon a building, structure, or land and which directs attention to a product, place, activity, person, institution or business.

58. "Street' A public way which affords the principal means of access to abutting property.

59. "Street Center Line" means a line halfway between the legal street right of way.

60. "Structure" Anything constructed or erected with a fixed location on the ground, or attached to something having a fixed location on the ground. Among other things, structures include buildings, walls, fences, and signs.

61. "Supplied" means paid for, furnished by, provided by or under the control of, the owner or operator.

62. "Temporary Housing" means any tent, trailer, mobile home or other structure used for human shelter which is designed to be transportable and which is not attached to the ground, to another structure or to any utility system on the same premises for more than thirty consecutive days.

63. "Trailer" A detached single family dwelling unit designed to be transported after fabrication on its own wheels, or on a flatbed or other trailers or detachable wheels, designed for long term occupancy.