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ACCESSORY BUILDING (FARM)
A structure, other than a dwelling, on a farm as herein defined, for the housing, protection, or storage of the usual farm equipment, animals, or crops.
ACCESSORY BUILDING (RESIDENTIAL)
In a residence district, a subordinate building, attached or detached and used for a purpose customarily incidental to the main structure such as a private garage for automobile storage, toolhouse, lathhouse, or greenhouse as a hobby (no business), home workshop, children's playhouse, storage or garden shelter, but not involving the conduct of a business.
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR USE
A subordinate building having a use customarily incident to and located on the lot occupied by the main building; or a use customarily incident to the main use of the property. A building housing an accessory use is considered an integral part of the main building when it has any part of a wall in common with the main building, or is under an extension of the main roof and designated as an integral part of the main building.
ADVERTISING SIGN (POSTER PANEL, PAINTED BULLETINS OR OTHER ADVERTISING DEVICES)
A sign which is usually a primary use of land and which promotes and advertises commodities or services not limited to being offered on the premises on which such signs are located.
AGRICULTURAL SIGN
An accessory sign identifying the farm or ranch on which it is placed and advertising the produce, crops, animals or poultry raised or quartered thereon.
AGRICULTURE
The planting, cultivation, harvesting and storage of grains, hay or plants commonly grown in the vicinity or the raising and feeding of livestock and poultry shall be considered an agriculture venture if the area in which the livestock or poultry is kept is 10 acres or more in area.
AIRPORT or LANDING FIELD
An area improved for the landing or takeoff of aircraft approved by the City of Collinsville for operation as an aircraft landing facility.
ALLEY
A minor way which is used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
ALTERATION
Any addition, removal, extension or change in the location of any exterior wall of a main building or accessory building.
AMUSEMENT, COMMERCIAL (INDOOR)
An amusement enterprise wholly enclosed in a building which is treated acoustically so that noise generated by the enterprise is not perceptible at the boundary property line and including, but not limited to, a bowling alley or billiard parlor.
AMUSEMENT, COMMERCIAL (OUTDOOR)
Any amusement enterprise offering entertainment or games of skill to the general public for a fee or charge wherein any portion of the activity takes place in the open, including, but not limited to, a golf driving range, archery range or miniature golf course.
ANTIQUE SHOP
An establishment offering for sale, within a building, articles such as glass, china, furniture or similar furnishings and decorations which have value and significance as a result of age, design or sentiment.
APARTMENT
A room or a suite of rooms within an apartment house arranged, intended or designed for a place of residence of a single family or group of individuals living together as a single housekeeping unit.
APARTMENT HOTEL
An apartment house which furnishes for the use of its tenants services ordinarily furnished by hotels, but the privileges of which are not primarily available to the public.
APARTMENT HOUSE (MULTIPLE-FAMILY DWELLING)
A building arranged or designed for more than two families.
APARTMENT NAME SIGN
An accessory sign for the identification of an apartment building or complex of apartment buildings.
ART GALLERY or MUSEUM
An institution for the collection, display, and distribution of art or science, and which is sponsored by a public or quasi-public agency and which facility is open to the general public.
BASEMENT
A story below the first story, as defined under "story," counted as a story for height regulations if subdivided and used for dwelling purposes other than by a janitor or watchman employed on the premises.
BLOCK
A piece or parcel of land entirely surrounded by public highways or streets, other than alleys. In cases where the platting is incomplete or disconnected, the Building Inspector shall determine the outline of the block.
BOARDINGHOUSE or LODGING HOUSE
A building other than a hotel, occupied as a single housekeeping unit, where lodging or meals are provided for five or more persons for compensation, pursuant to previous arrangements, but not for the public or transients.
BUILDING
An enclosed structure, anchored to permanent foundation, and having exterior or party walls and a roof, designed for the shelter of persons, animals or property. When divided by other than common or contiguous walls, each portion or section of such building shall be regarded as a separate building, except that two buildings connected by a breezeway shall be deemed as one building.
CHURCH or RECTORY
A place of worship and religious training of recognized religions, including on-site housing of ministers, rabbis, priests, nuns and similar staff personnel.
CLEANING OR LAUNDRY SELF-SERVICE SHOP
To be of the customer self-service type and not a commercial laundry or cleaning plant.
CLEANING SHOP or LAUNDRY (LIMITED AREA)
A custom cleaning shop not exceeding 2,500 square feet of floor area.
COLLEGE or UNIVERSITY
An academic institution of higher learning, accredited or recognized by the state and offering a program or series of programs of academic study.
COMMUNITY CENTER (PUBLIC)
A building or grounds owned or operated by a governmental body for the social, recreational, health, or welfare of the community served.
COUNTRY CLUB (PRIVATE)
An area of 20 acres or more containing a golf course and a clubhouse and available only to private, specific membership; such a club may contain adjunct facilities such as a private club, dining room, swimming pool, tennis courts and similar recreational or service facilities.
COURT
An open, unoccupied space, other than a yard, bounded on three or more sides by exterior walls of a building, or by exterior walls of a building and lot lines on which walls are allowable.
CURB LEVEL
The mean level of the curb in front of the lot or, in case of a corner lot, along that abutting street where the mean curb level is the highest.
CUSTOM PERSONAL SERVICE SHOP
Tailor, dressmaker, shoe shop or similar shop offering custom service.
DANCE HALL or NIGHTCLUB
An establishment offering to the general public facilities for dancing and entertainment for a fee and subject to licensing and regulation by the City of Collinsville.
DAY CAMP FOR CHILDREN
A facility arranged and conducted for the organized recreation and instruction of children, including outdoor activities, on a daytime basis.
DEVELOPMENT SIGN
A temporary accessory sign related to the promotion of new development and located on the premises involved in the development.
DWELLING
A building or portion thereof, designed exclusively for residential occupancy, including one-family, two-family, and multiple dwellings, boardinghouses and lodging houses, apartment houses, and apartment hotels, but not hotels, house trailers or mobile homes.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
A building arranged, intended or designed for occupancy by two families.
FAMILY
One or more persons who are related by blood or marriage, living together and occupying a single housekeeping unit with single kitchen facilities; or a group of not more than five (excluding servants), living together by joint agreement and occupying a single housekeeping unit with single kitchen facilities.
GARAGE, COMMUNITY
A building or portion thereof, other than a public private or storage garage as defined below, providing storage for motor vehicles with facilities for washing but no other services, such garage to be in lieu of private garages within a block or portion of block.
GARAGE, PRIVATE
An accessory building for storage primarily of motor vehicles.
GARAGE, PUBLIC
A building, or portion thereof, designed or used for the storage, sale, hiring, care or repair of motor vehicles, which is operated for commercial purposes.
GARAGE, STORAGE
A building, or portion thereof, except those defined as a "private," a "public," or a "community" garage, providing storage for more than four motor vehicles, with facilities for washing but no other services.
GENERAL BUSINESS SIGN
An accessory sign or graphic device which advertises only commodities or service offered on the premises where such signs are located and not of the billboard, poster-panel or painted-bulletin type. Portable business signs shall not be located in the public right-of-way or any street or highway, nor shall such signs be displayed in front of any required yard line herein established.
GOLF COURSE (COMMERCIAL)
A golf course, privately owned, but open to the public for a fee and operated as a commercial venture.
GROSS LEASABLE AREA
The total floor area of all buildings designed for tenant occupancy and exclusive use, including basement, mezzanine and upper floors, if any, measured from the center line of joint partitions and from outside wall faces.
HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS
The vertical distance measured from the highest of the following three levels: (1) From the street curb level. (2) From the established or mean street grade in case the curb has not been constructed. (3) From the average finished ground level adjoining the building if it sets back from the street line; to the level of the highest point of the roof beams of flat roof or roofs inclining not more than one inch to the foot; or to the mean height of the top of the main plates and highest ridge for other roofs.
HEIGHT OF YARD OR COURT
The vertical distance from the lowest level of such yard or court to the highest point of any boundary wall.
HELIPORT
A landing facility for rotary-wing aircraft subject to regularly scheduled use, and may include fueling or servicing facilities for such craft, and subject to approval by the City of Collinsville.
HELISTOP
A landing pad for occasional and infrequent use by rotary-wing aircraft not exceeding a gross weight of 10,000 pounds and not for regularly scheduled stops and subject to approval by the City.
HOME OCCUPATION
A "home occupation" is an occupation carried on in the home by a member of the occupant's family, without the employment of additional persons, without the use of a sign to advertise the occupation, without offering any commodity for sale on the premises and which does not create obnoxious noise or other obnoxious conditions to abutting residential property such as emission of odor, increased traffic or generation of light or smoke, and where the use is carried on in the main structure only. A home occupation shall specifically exclude the operation of a repair garage, plumbing shop or similar activity.
HOSPITAL (ACUTE CARE)
An institution where sick or injured patients are given medical or surgical treatment intended to restore them to health and an active life and which is licensed by the State of Texas.
HOSPITAL (CHRONIC CARE)
An institution where those persons suffering from illness, injury, deformity, deficiency of age are given care and treatment on a prolonged or permanent basis and which is licensed by the State of Texas.
HOTEL or MOTEL
A building or group of buildings designed and occupied as a temporary abiding place of individuals. To be classified as a hotel or motel, an establishment shall contain a minimum of six individual guest rooms or units and shall furnish customary hotel services such as linen, maid service, telephone, use and upkeep of furniture.
INSTITUTION FOR ALCOHOLIC, NARCOTIC OR PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS
An institution offering resident or outpatient treatment to alcoholic or narcotic patients.
INSTITUTIONAL SIGN
An accessory sign for the identity of a school, church, hospital or similar public or quasi-public institution.
KINDERGARTEN or NURSERY
An establishment where more than three children are housed for care or training during the day or portion thereof.
LIGHT FABRICATION AND ASSEMBLY PROCESSES
Including the manufacturers of clothing, jewelry, trimming decorations and any similar item not involving the generation of noise, odor, vibration, dust or hazard.
LIVESTOCK AUCTION
Barns, pens and sheds for the temporary holding and sale of livestock.
LOCAL UTILITY LINE
The facilities provided by a municipality or a franchised utility company for the distribution or collection of gas, water surface drainage water, sewage, electric power or telephone service, including pad- or pole-mounted distribution transformers, which includes either above- or belowground service.
LOT
A parcel of land occupied or to be occupied by one main building or unit group of buildings, and the accessory buildings or uses customarily incident thereto, including such open spaces as are required under this chapter, and having its principal frontage upon a public street or approved place. A lot as used herein may consist of one or more platted lots, or tract or tracts, as conveyed, or parts thereof.
LOT DEPTH
The mean horizontal distance from the street line to the rear line.
LOT LINES
The lines bounding a lot as defined herein.
LOT LINES, FRONT
The boundary between a lot and the street on which it fronts.
LOT LINES, REAR
The boundary line which is opposite and most distant from the front street line; except that, in the case of uncertainty, the Building Inspector shall determine the rear line.
LOT LINES, SIDE
Any lot boundary line not a front or rear line thereof. A sideline may be a party lot line, a line bordering on an alley or place or a side street line.
LOT WIDTH
The horizontal distance between sidelines, measured at the front building line.
LOT, CORNER
A lot abutting upon two or more streets at their intersection. A corner lot shall be deemed to front on that street on which it has its least dimensions, unless otherwise specified by the Building Inspector.
LOT, INTERIOR
A lot whose side lot lines do not abut upon any street.
LOT, REVERSE CORNER
A corner lot whose front lot line faces at right angles to the front lot lines of the interior lots or whose rear lot line abuts the side lot lines of interior lots.
LOT, THROUGH
An interior lot having frontage on two streets.
LOTS IN SEPARATE OWNERSHIP AT THE TIME OF THE PASSAGE OF THIS ORDINANCE
A lot whose boundary lines, along their entire length, touched lands under other ownership as shown by plat or deed recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the county on or before the date of the adoption of this chapter.
MINI STORAGE WAREHOUSES
A building or group of buildings in a controlled-access compound that contains individual compartmentalized and controlled access stalls or lockers of varying sizes not to exceed 500 square feet for the storage of the user's goods or wares.
MOBILE HOME AS A FIXED DWELLING
A dwelling designed to be transported in not more than two sections (double wide) on the highway which is placed on a lot, connected to utilities and occupied as a fixed dwelling.
MODULAR OR FACTORY-FABRICATED DWELLING
A dwelling fabricated off-site and assembled from three or more units or sections as a fixed dwelling unit on a lot or tract of land.
NAMEPLATE
An accessory sign showing only the name and address of the owner or occupant of the premises on which it is erected or placed.
NONCONFORMING USE, BUILDING OR YARD
A use, building or yard which does not, by reason of design, use or dimensions, conform to the regulations of the district in which it is situated. It is a legal nonconforming use if established prior to the passage of this chapter.
NURSING HOME or RESIDENCE FOR AGED
A home where ill or elderly people are provided with lodging and meals with or without nursing care.
OFF-STREET PARKING INCIDENTAL TO MAIN USE
Off-street parking spaces provided in accordance with the requirements specified by this chapter and located on the lot or tract occupied by the main use or within 150 feet of such lot or tract and located within the same zoning district as the main use or in an adjacent parking district.
PARK OR PLAYGROUND (PUBLIC)
An open recreation facility or park owned and operated by a public agency such as the City or School Board and available to the general public.
PARKING LOT OR STRUCTURE (COMMERCIAL)
An area or structure devoted to the parking or storage of automobiles for a fee. May include, in the case of a parking structure only, a facility for servicing of automobiles, provided such facility is primarily an internal function for use only by automobiles occupying the structure and creates no special problems of ingress or egress.
PLACE
An open, unoccupied space other than a street or alley permanently established or dedicated as the principal means of access to property abutting thereon.
PLAY FIELD OR STADIUM (PUBLIC)
An athletic field or stadium owned and operated by a public agency for the general public, including a baseball field, golf course, football field or stadium.
PUBLIC BUILDING, SHOP OR YARD OF LOCAL, STATE OR FEDERAL AGENCY
Facilities such as office buildings, maintenance yards and shops required by branches of local, state or federal government for service to an area such as Highway Department Yard, City Service Center or Experiment Station.
RADIO, TELEVISION OR MICROWAVE TOWERS
Structures supporting antennae for transmitting or receiving any portion of the radio spectrum, but excluding noncommercial antennae installations for home use of radio or television.
RAILROAD TEAM TRACKS
A siding for spotting and unloading or loading boxcars or other railroad cars and which area is connected to a public street by a drive for access.
RAILROAD TRACK OR RIGHT-OF-WAY
But not including railroad stations, sidings, team tracks, loading facilities, docks, yards or maintenance areas.
REAL ESTATE SIGN
A temporary accessory sign pertaining to the sale or rental of property and advertising property only for use for which it is legally zoned.
SCHOOL (BUSINESS)
A business organized to operate for a profit and offering instruction and training in a service or art such as a secretarial school, barber college, beauty school or commercial art school, but not including manual trade schools.
SCHOOL (COMMERCIAL TRADE)
A business organized to operate for a profit and offering instruction and training in a trade such as welding, bricklaying, machinery operation and similar trades.
SCHOOL, PUBLIC OR DENOMINATIONAL
A school under the sponsorship of a public or religious agency having a curriculum generally equivalent to public elementary or secondary schools, but not including trade or commercial schools.
SERVICE FLOOR AREA
The total floor area of a building exclusive of stairways, restrooms, storage rooms, hallways or other areas which are not regularly used by inhabitants, visitors, employees, clients, customers, patients or patrons in their normal everyday use of the building.
SIGN (CONSTRUCTION)
A temporary accessory sign identifying the property owner, architect, contractor, engineer, landscape architect, decorator or mortgagee engaged in the design, construction or improvement of the premises on which the sign is located.
SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING, ATTACHED
A dwelling constructed on the lot which is joined to another dwelling at one or more sides by a party wall or abutting separate wall and which is designed for occupancy by one family and is located on a separate lot delineated by front, side and rear lot lines.
SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING, DETACHED
A dwelling constructed on the lot designed and constructed for occupancy by one family and located on a lot or separate building tract and having no physical connection to a building located on any other lot or tract and occupied by one family.
STABLE OR ANIMAL SHELTER, PRIVATE
An accessory building for quartering horses or other livestock (not household pets) when the stable or building is set back from all adjacent property lines at least 50 feet and when the site contains a minimum area of one acre for each animal quartered.
STABLE, PRIVATE
An accessory building for the keeping of horses, ponies or cows, owned by occupants of the premises and not kept for remuneration, hire or sale.
STABLE, PUBLIC
A stable other than a private or riding stable as defined herein.
STABLE, RIDING
A structure in which horses or ponies, used exclusively for pleasure riding or driving, are housed, boarded or kept for remuneration, hire or sale.
STORY
That part of a building included between the surface of one finished floor and the surface of the finished floor next above or, if there be no floor above, that part of the building which is above the surface of the highest floor thereof. A "top-story attic" is a half story when the main line of the eaves is not above the middle of the interior height of such story. The "first story" is the highest story having its interior floor surface not more than four feet above the curb level, established or mean street grade, or average ground level, as mentioned in the height of buildings section.
STREET
A right-of-way which affords principal means of vehicular access to property abutting thereon.
STREET LINE
The dividing line between the street and the abutting property.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS
Any alteration involving a change in or addition to the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
STRUCTURE
Anything constructed or erected which requires location on the ground or is attached to something having a location on the ground, including, but not limited to, signs, and excepting utility poles, fences and retaining walls.
SWIMMING POOL, COMMERCIAL
A swimming pool with accessory facilities, not part of the municipal or public recreational system and not a private swim club, but where the facilities are available to the general public for a fee.
SWIMMING POOL, PRIVATE
A swimming pool constructed for the exclusive use of the residents of a single-family, two-family or multiple-family dwelling and located and fenced in accordance with the regulations of the State of Texas. A private swimming pool shall not be operated as a business nor maintained in a manner to be hazardous or obnoxious to adjacent property owners.
TELEPHONE EXCHANGE, SWITCHING RELAY AND TRANSMITTING STATION
But not including public business facilities, storage or repair facilities.
TEMPORARY FIELD OFFICE or CONSTRUCTION OR YARD OFFICE
A structure or shelter used in connection with a development or building project for housing on the site of temporary administrative and supervisory functions and for sheltering employees, equipment or material.
TRAILER HOUSE or MOBILE HOME
Any structure used for living or sleeping purposes, having no foundation other than wheels, blocks, skids, jacks, horses or skirtings, and which has been, or reasonably may be, equipped with wheels or other devices for transporting the structure from place to place.
TRAILER HOUSE OR MOBILE HOME COURT
Land used or intended to be used, let or rented for occupancy by two or more house trailers or mobile homes.
VARIANCE
Relief from or variation of the provisions of these regulations, other than use regulations, as applied to a specific piece of property, as distinct from rezoning, as further set out hereinafter in powers and duties of the Board of Adjustment. See § 760-28: Board of Adjustment.
WRECKING OR AUTO SALVAGE YARD
A yard or building where automobiles or parts of automobiles or machinery are stored, dismantled and/or offered for sale in the open as whole units, as salvaged parts or as processed metal.
YARD
An open space at grade between a building and the adjoining lot lines, unoccupied and unobstructed by any portion of a structure from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided. In measuring a yard for the purpose of determining the width of a side yard, the depth of a front yard, or the depth of a rear yard, the least shall be used. Where lots abut a street that is designated a thoroughfare on the Thoroughfare Plan, all yards abutting said street shall be measured from a line one-half the proposed right-of-way width from the center line, or from the lot line, whichever provides the greater setback. On other lots, all yards abutting a street shall be measured from a line 25 feet from the center line, or from the lot line, whichever provides the greater setback.
YARD (FRONT)
A yard across the full width of the lot from the front line of the main building to the front line of the lot.
YARD (REAR)
A yard between the rear lot line and the rear line of the main building and the side lot lines.
YARD (SIDE)
A yard between the main building and the adjacent side line to the lot, and extending entirely from the front yard to the rear yard.
ZOO (COMMERCIAL)
A facility housing and displaying live animals, reptiles or birds, privately owned and operated for a fee or for the promotion of some other enterprise.
ZOO (PRIVATE)
A publicly owned zoo or similar facility owned and operated by a nonprofit zoological society where live animals, birds and reptiles are domiciled and displayed.
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Words used in the present tense include the future; words in the singular number include the plural; and words in the plural number include the singular; the word "building" includes the word "structure"; the word "shall" or the word "must" is mandatory; the term "used for" includes the meaning "designed for" or "intended for."