§ 153.004. DEFINITIONS.

For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

ACCESSORY USE. A use of a building, lot or portion thereof, which is customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use of the main building or lot.

ALTERATION. Any modification, addition or change in construction or type of occupancy; any change or rearrangement in the structural parts of a building; any enlargement of a building, whether by extending a side or increasing in height; or the moving from one location to another.

APARTMENT. A room or suite of rooms, including bath and kitchen facilities, in a two-family or multiple dwelling, intended or designed for use as a residence by a single family.

AS-BUILT PLANS. Revised construction plans in accordance with all approved field changes.

BASEMENT. The portion of a building below the first floor joists, at least half of whose clear ceiling height is above the level of the adjacent ground.

BERM. A lineal earthen mound of variable height and width, used as visual relief or transitional area between different land uses.

BREEZEWAY. Any structure connecting the principal dwelling unit with a freestanding accessory building.

BUFFER. A strip or parcel of land, privately restricted or publicly dedicated as open space located between incompatible uses for the purpose of protecting and enhancing the residential environment. Also referred to as a GREENBELT.

BUILDABLE AREA. The area on a lot or parcel exclusive of minimum yard requirements on which structures could be placed, provided maximum lot coverage requirements are not exceeded.

BUILDING. A structure, either temporary or permanent, having a roof supported by columns or walls.

BUILDING, ACCESSORY. A building subordinate to and located on the same lot with a main building, the use of which is clearly incidental to that of the main building or to the use of the land, and which may or may not be attached to the main structure.

BUILDING AREA. The total of 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.

BUILDING, FRONT LINE. The line that faces the building nearest the front line of the lot, which includes enclosed porches but not steps.

BUILDING, HEIGHT OF. The vertical distance measured from the average finished grade at the front of the building to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs; to the deck line for mansard roofs; and the mean height level between eaves and ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs.

BUILDING INSPECTOR. See “Zoning Administrator or Official”.

BUILDING OFFICIAL. See “Zoning Administrator or Official”.

BUILDING, PRINCIPAL (OR MAIN). A building in which is conducted the principal or main use of the lot on which it is located.

CAR WASH, AUTOMATIC. An establishment providing facilities for the mechanical washing or waxing of automobiles. Such service to be provided without labor to the customer and, should it offer gasoline for sale, all requirements pertaining to gasoline service stations must be met.

CELLAR. A story having more than half of its height below the average finished level of the adjoining ground. A CELLAR shall not be counted as a story for purposes of height measurement. Also, a CELLAR shall not be used as a separate business or for habitation.

CHURCH. A building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, where persons regularly assemble for religious worship, maintained and controlled by a religious body organized to sustain public worship.

CLINIC. A building where human patients, who are not lodged overnight, are admitted for examination and treatment by a group of physicians, dentists or similar professions.

CLUB. An organization catering exclusively to members and their guests, or premises and buildings for recreational, artistic, political or social purposes, which are not conducted primarily for gain and which do not provide merchandise, vending or commercial activities except as required incidentally for the membership and purpose of the CLUB.

COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN. An adopted statement of policy by the Village Planning Commission for the physical pattern of future development within the village. Said Plan may consist of maps, data, charts and other descriptive materials.

CONVALESCENT HOME. Includes rest and nursing homes, convalescent homes and boarding homes for the aged; established to render nursing care for chronic or convalescent patients, but excludes facilities for care of active or violent patients, epileptics, alcoholics, senile psychotics or drug addicts.

COVERAGE. The percentage of the plat or lot covered by the building area.

DEDICATION. The intentional appropriation of land by the owner to public use.

DENSITY. The number of dwelling units situated on or to be developed on a net acre of land.

DEVELOPER. A natural person, firm, association, partnership, corporation or combination of any of them which may hold any recorded or unrecorded ownership interest in land. The proprietor is also commonly referred to as the owner.

DISTRICT. An area of land for which there are uniform regulations governing the use of buildings and premises, density of development, yard requirements and height limitations.

DWELLING. A building or portion thereof, designed or used exclusively for residential purposes.

DWELLING, MULTIPLE-FAMILY. A building containing three or more dwelling units; an apartment house.

DWELLING, ONE-FAMILY (SINGLE-FAMILY). A detached building containing not more than one dwelling unit.

DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY. A building containing not more than two separate dwelling units; a duplex.

DWELLING UNIT. A building, or portion thereof, designed for residential occupancy by not more than one family and having cooking facilities.

ERECTED. The building, construction, alteration, reconstruction, moving upon or any physical activity upon a premises or lot.

ESSENTIAL SERVICES. The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance, by public utilities or municipal departments or commissions of underground or overhead gas, electrical, steam or water transmission or distribution systems, collection, communication, supply or disposal systems, including poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, towers, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar equipment and accessories in connection with but not including buildings reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities, departments or commissions or for the public health or safety or general welfare.

FAMILY. An individual, or two or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption, or a group not to exceed two persons not related by blood or marriage, occupying premises and living as a single nonprofit housekeeping unit with single kitchen facilities, and distinguished from a group occupying a boarding house, lodging house, club, fraternity, hotel or similar dwelling for group use.

FARM. Any parcel of land, containing at least 20 acres, which is used for gain in the raising of agricultural products, livestock, poultry and dairy products. Includes necessary FARM structures within prescribed property boundaries and the storage of equipment used. Excludes the raising of fur-bearing animals, riding academies, livery or boarding stables and dog kennels.

FENCE. An accessory structure intended for use as a barrier to property ingress or egress, a screen from objectionable vista, noise and/or for decorative use.

FLOOR AREA. The total enclosed FLOOR AREA of a structure used for residential purposes, excluding the FLOOR AREA of uninhabitable basements, cellars, garages, accessory buildings, attics, breezeways and porches. For manufacturing, business or commercial activities which, in the case of the latter, includes customer facilities, showcase facilities and sales facilities.

FLOOR AREA, GROSS. The sum of all gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a building or buildings, measured from the outside dimensions of the foundation. Unenclosed porches, courtyards or patios, whether covered or uncovered shall not be considered as a part of the GROSS FLOOR AREA unless used for commercial purposes such as nursery beds or sales of outdoor equipment.

FLOOR AREA, USABLE. For purposes of computing parking requirements, the area to be used for the sale of merchandise or services, or to serve patrons, clients or customers. Such floor area which is used or intended to be used principally for the storage or processing of merchandise, hallways, stairways and elevator shafts, or for utilities or sanitary facilities, shall be excluded from this computation of USABLE FLOOR AREA. Measurements of USABLE FLOOR AREA shall be the sum of the horizontal areas of the several floors of the building, measured from the interior faces of the exterior walls.

FRONTAGE. The length of the front property line of the lot, lots or tract of land abutting a public street, road or highway.

GARAGE, PARKING. A structure or series of structures for the temporary storage or parking of motor vehicles, having no public shop or service connected therewith.

GARAGE, PRIVATE. An accessory building or portion of a main building designed or used primarily for the storage of motor vehicles, boats, house trailers and similar vehicles owned and used by the occupants of the building to which it is accessory.

GASOLINE SERVICE STATION. Any building or premises used for the dispensing, sale or offering for sale at retail of any motor fuels, oils or lubricants. Also permitted are the sales and service of minor motor vehicle repairs such as tires, batteries, plugs, points, minor motor tune-ups, generators, starters, radiator and other hoses, fan belts and the replacement of small parts which are carried as stock for sale.

GROSS ACRES (as used in density computations). The total land area under the control of a developer or property owner.

GROUP HOUSING. A residential development involving the ultimate construction of two or more one-family, two-family or multiple-family dwellings or combination of multiple and two-family, or one-family dwellings on a lot, parcel or tract of land, or on a combination of lots under one ownership.

HOME OCCUPATION. An occupation customarily engaged in by residents in their own dwelling and incidental to the principal use, including instruction in crafts and fine arts.

HOSPITAL. Any institution, including a sanitarium, which maintains and operates facilities for overnight care and treatment of two or more non-related persons as patients suffering mental or physical ailments, but not including any dispensary or first aid treatment facilities maintained by a commercial or industrial plant, educational institution, convent or a convalescent home, as previously defined.

HOSPITAL, ANIMAL. A profit or nonprofit institution which maintains and operates facilities for the care and treatment of animals of any size.

HOTEL. A building occupied or designed for more or less temporary occupancy by individuals who are lodged with or without meals, in which there are more than ten sleeping rooms which may be served only by a general kitchen and dining facility located within the building.

IMPROVEMENTS. Any structure incident to servicing or furnishing facilities for a subdivision such as grading, street surfacing, curb and gutter, driveway approaches, sidewalks, crosswalks, water mains and lines, sanitary sewers, storm sewers, culverts, utilities, bridges, slips, waterways, lakes, bays, canals and other appropriate items, with appurtenant construction.

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT. A planned industrial area designed specifically for industrial use providing screened buffers, wider streets and turning movement and safety lane roadway improvements, where necessary.

JUNK. Miscellaneous dry solid waste material resulting from housekeeping, mercantile and manufacturing enterprises and offices, including but not limited to scrap metals, rubber and paper, abandoned, wrecked, unlicensed and inoperable automobiles and motor vehicles, rags, bottles, cans and comparable items.

JUNK YARD. A place where waste, discarded or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled, including automobile wrecking yards, house wrecking and structural steel materials and equipment, but not including the purchase or storage of used clothing, used furniture and household equipment, used cars in operable condition, used or salvaged materials as of manufacturing operations, but not to be used as a dump.

KENNEL. Any lot or premises used for the sale, boarding or breeding of dogs, cats and/or other household pets over the age of six months. Also the keeping of live dogs, cats or other household pets of the mammal group over the age of six months.

LIGHTING, SOURCE OF. The source of light shall refer to the light bulb or filament which is exposed or visible through clear materials. Exposed mercury vapor lamps or neon lamps shall be considered a direct SOURCE OF LIGHT.

LIVESTOCK. Animals such as horses, cattle, sheep, goats and swine.

LOADING SPACE. An off-street space on the same lot with a building, or group of buildings, for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials.

LOT. Land occupied or to be occupied by a building and its accessory buildings, or by any other single activity permitted herein, together with such open spaces as are required under this chapter and having its principal frontage upon a street. A measured portion of a parcel or tract of land, which is described and fixed in a recorded plat.

LOT AREA. The total horizontal area included within lot lines. Where the front lot line is the centerline of a street or lies in part or in whole in the street area, the LOT AREA shall not include that part of the lot in use or to be used as the street.

LOT, CORNER. A lot situated at the junction of two or more streets, or where the interior angle formed by the extensions of the street lines in the directions which they take at their intersections with lot lines, other than street lines, forms an angle of 135 degrees or less. In the event that any street line is a curve at its point of intersection with a lot line other than a street line, the tangent to the curve at that point shall be considered the direction of the street line. Any portion of a CORNER LOT whose nearest frontage is more than 100 feet from the point of intersection of the two street lines or of the two tangents shall be subject to the regulations applicable to either a through lot or an interior lot.

LOT COVERAGE. The percentage of a lot covered by the building area.

LOT, DEPTH OF. The average horizontal distance between the front lot line and the rear lot line.

LOT, FRONT OF. The side or sides of an interior or through lot which abuts a street. In a corner lot, the side or sides abutting either street may be considered as the front lot line, provided that the side selected as the front has the required minimum lot frontage and setback areas. A lot front shall also be evidenced by the street frontage that a structure is addressed to.

LOT, FRONTAGE. The portion of a lot extending along a street line. In odd-shaped or triangular-shaped lots the length of the FRONTAGE may be reduced to not less than one-half of any minimum frontage herein required, and the actual length of the street line shall not be less than 50 feet.

LOT LINE. The lines bounding a lot.

LOT OF RECORD. A lot which is part of a subdivision, the plat of which has been recorded in the office of the Registrar of Deeds in this county, or a lot described by metes and bounds, the deed to which has been recorded in the office of the Registrar of Deeds in the county.

LOT, OUT. When included within the boundary of a recorded plat, a lot set aside for purposes other than a building site, park or other land dedicated to public use or reserved to private use.

LOT, WIDTH OF. The average horizontal width measured at right angles to the lot depth.

MANUFACTURED HOME. A dwelling unit prefabricated in part or total and transported to the building site for assembly as a permanent or temporary dwelling.

MARKET VALUE. The price that the structure can be expected to bring when sold in a given market.

MOBILE HOME. A structure, transportable in one or more sections which is built on a chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling or any other use when connected to the required utilities and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems in the structure which has a title. The term MOBILE HOME shall not include pickup campers, travel trailers, converted buses or tent trailers. A double-wide, if built on a chassis to be towed, shall be considered a MOBILE HOME. If a double-wide is built on a permanent foundation and is without its own chassis to be towed, it shall be considered a conventional dwelling.

MOBILE HOME PAD. The part of a mobile home site designed for the placement of a mobile home, appurtenant structures or additions, including expandable rooms, enclosed patios, garages or structural additions.

MOBILE HOME PARK. A parcel or tract of land under the control of a person where three or more mobile homes are located on a continual, non-recreational basis and which is offered to the public for that purpose, regardless of whether a charge is made therefor, together with any building, structure, enclosure, street, equipment or facility used or intended for use incidental to the occupancy of a mobile home and which is not intended for use as a temporary trailer park.

MODULAR HOUSING UNIT. A unit constructed solely within a factory in various sized modules which are then transported by truck, or other removable undercarriage, to the site where they are assembled on permanent foundations, to form single-family dwellings which are either attached (in rows or clusters), stacked or detached.

MOTEL. A building or group of buildings, not more than two stories in height, detached or in connected units, used as individual sleeping or dwelling units for transient occupancy. Includes auto courts, tourist courts, motor hotels and similar appellations designed as individual rooms under common ownership.

MOTOR HOME. A self-propelled, licensed vehicle prefabricated on its own chassis, intended for recreation activities and temporary occupancy.

MOTOR VEHICLE. Every vehicle which is self-propelled, but not operated upon rails and as defined in Public Act 300 of 1949, being M.C.L.A. §§ 257.1 et seq.

MOTOR VEHICLE, DISMANTLED. A motor vehicle from which some part or parts, which are ordinarily a component thereof, have been removed or are missing and which render the vehicle incapable of being operated or propelled under its own power, and which condition exists and continues for a period of 24 consecutive hours.

NET ACREAGE (as used in density computation). Total gross acreage less acreage for publicly dedicated street right-of-way and public utility and storm drain easements not located in street rights-of- way.

NONCONFORMING BUILDING. Any lawful building or other structure which does not comply with the applicable bulk regulations for the district, either at the effective date of this chapter or as a result of a subsequent amendment thereto.

NONCONFORMING USE. Any lawful use of a building or land existing at the time of enactment of this chapter which does not conform to the regulations of the district or zone in which it is located.

NUISANCE. An offensive, annoying, unpleasant or obnoxious thing or practice, a cause or source of annoyance, especially a continuing or repeating invasion of any physical characteristics of activity or use across a property line which can be perceived by or affects a human being; or the generation of an excessive or concentrated movement of people or things such as noise, dust, smoke, odor, glare, fumes, flashes, vibration, shock waves, heat, electric or atomic radiation, objectionable effluent, noise of a congregation of people, particularly at night, passing traffic, invasion of street frontage by traffic generated from an adjacent land use which lacks sufficient parking and circulation facilities.

OFF-STREET PARKING AREA. A land surface or facility providing vehicular parking spaces along with adequate drives and aisles for maneuvering so as to provide access for entrance and exit for the parking of three or more automobiles or trucks. The term PARKING AREA shall include portions of access drives which give direct access to parking spaces.

PARKING SPACE. A land area of not less than ten by 18 feet, exclusive of driveways and aisles, and adjacent to driveways and aisles, and so prepared as to be usable for the parking of a motor vehicle and so located as to be readily accessible to a public street or alley.

PET, HOUSEHOLD. Includes dogs, cats, canaries, parakeets and other kindred animals and fish usually and ordinarily kept as household pets. As used herein, it shall not be construed to include horses, mules, donkeys, cows, bulls, sheep, goats, rabbits, fowl and other domesticated animals.

PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (P.U.D.). A land area which has both individual building sites and common property, such as a park, and which is designed and developed under one owner or organized group as a separate neighborhood or community unit.

PRINCIPAL USE. The main use to which the premises are devoted and the principal purpose for which the premises exist.

PROFESSIONAL OFFICE. Rooms or buildings used for office purposes by members of any recognized profession, including doctors, dentists, lawyers, accountants, engineers, architects and the like, but not including medical or dental clinics.

PUBLIC OPEN SPACE. Land dedicated or reserved for use by the general public. It includes parks, parkways, recreation areas, school sites, community or public building sites, streets and highways and public parking spaces.

PUBLIC PARK. Any park, playground, beach, outdoor swimming pool or parkway within the jurisdiction and control of a governmental agency authorized by state statutes to own and maintain parks.

PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEM. A central or community sanitary sewage and collection system including pipes, conduits, manholes, pumping stations, sewage and wastewater treatment works, division and regulatory devices and outfall structures, collectively or singularly, actually used or intended for use by the general public or a segment thereof, for the purpose of collecting, conveying, transporting, treating or otherwise handling sanitary sewage or industrial liquid wastes of such a nature as to be capable of adversely affecting the public health, operated and maintained by the general public.

PUBLIC UTILITY. All persons, firms, corporations, copartnerships or municipal or other public authority providing gas, electricity, water, steam, telephone, telegraph, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, transportation or other services of a similar nature.

PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM. A central or community facility which provides potable water to users. This facility includes the necessary wells, pipes, pumps, treatment works, monitoring gauges and administrative offices necessary to protect the public health. This facility is operated and maintained by the general public.

RECREATION VEHICLE. Small, mobile units principally designed for recreational pastime, such as motor homes, camper trailers, pickup campers, tent trailers and similar camping type vehicles or trailers.

REFUSE. Any matter deemed disposable or of no monetary value, including but not limited to paper, rags, glass, metal and wood.

REFUSE STORAGE AREAS. Any exterior space designated by a site plan for containers, structures or other receptacle intended for temporary storage of solid waste materials.

RESTAURANT. A building where food is prepared and consumed only within the building.

RESTAURANT, DRIVE-IN. A location where food is prepared and consumed within or without the building or removed from the building and lot for consumption.

RESTAURANT, TAKE-OUT. A location where food is prepared or offered for sale but must be removed from the building and lot for consumption.

RETAIL STORE. Any building or structure in which goods, wares or merchandise are sold to the ultimate consumer for direct consumption and not for resale.

ROOF LINE. The point at which the wall of a structure meets the roof. A parapet wall is considered to be above the ROOF LINE.

ROOM. Any area used for sleeping, living or preparation of food. Dining areas may be included in any living room or kitchen. Kitchens, bedrooms and living rooms may not be combined. Kitchenettes which are enclosed and not larger than 20 square feet shall not be considered as ROOMS. Hidden beds, either in furniture or walls, shall not be considered a combination of ROOMS.

ROOMER. Any person, not the principal tenant or a family member of the principal tenant, who resides in a dwelling unit and pays remuneration to the principal tenant, as distinguished from a “guest” who does not pay. The ROOMER shall not have private cooking facilities available. Rooms with private cooking facilities shall be considered apartments.

SALVAGE YARD. Any land or building over 200 square feet in area used for abandonment, storage, keeping, collection or baling of paper, rags, scrap metals, other scrap or discarded materials or for abandonment, demolition, dismantling, storage or salvaging of automobiles or other vehicles or machinery or parts thereof.

SHOPPING CENTER. A group of five or more commercial establishments planned, developed and managed as a unit with off-street parking provided on the same property and related in location, size and type of shops in the center.

SIGN. Any structure, part thereof or device attached thereto or painted or represented thereon on any material or thing, which displays letters, numerals, words, trademark or other representation used for direction or designation of any person, firm, organization, place, product, service, business or industry which is located upon any land, on any building, in or upon a window, or indoors in such a manner as to attract attention from outside of the building.

SIGN, ADVERTISING. Any sign erected for the purpose of advertising a business, product, event, person or subject not relating to the premises on which said sign is located.

SIGN, ANIMATED. Any sign having a conspicuous and intermittent variation in the illumination or physical position of any part of the sign; provided, however, the rotation of a sign turning at less than one complete rotation every 15 seconds shall not be considered ANIMATED.

SIGN, AREA. The area of sign structures, consisting of letters or symbols and any solid background surface on which they are mounted or integrally a part of shall be included in the calculation of total SIGN AREA. The area of open sign structures, consisting of letter or symbols without a solid surface in between, shall be calculated on the basis of the total area within the perimeter of the group of letters and/or symbols. The area of a double face sign, which is constructed back to back as a single unit, shall be calculated according to the surface area of one side only.

SIGN, BUSINESS. Any sign erected for the purpose of advertising a business, product or subject related to the premises on which said sign is located.

SIGN, ENCROACHING. A sign which projects beyond the private property line into and over public property.

SIGN, FREESTANDING. A structure erected for the purpose of advertising a business or activity on the same parcel. Such structures shall not be attached to a building which may be located on the same parcel. Such a sign may also be known as a PYLON SIGN.

SIGN, GROUND. A sign which is supported by one or more uprights in, or upon the ground with any part of the display surface of the sign less than eight feet above the grade at the base of the sign.

SIGN, HOME OCCUPATION. Any sign used for the purpose of advertising services in conjunction with a lawful home occupation.

STORY. The portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or of the ceiling above it. A basement shall be counted as a STORY if its ceiling is over six feet above the average level of the finished ground surface adjoining the exterior walls of such story or if it is used for business or dwelling purposes.

STORY, HALF. A space under a sloping roof which has the line of intersection of roof decking and wall face not more than three feet above the top floor level and in which space not more than two-thirds of the floor area is finished off for use. A HALF STORY containing independent apartments or living quarters shall be counted as a full story.

STORY, HEIGHT OF. The vertical distance from the top surface of one floor to the top surface of the floor above. The height of the topmost story is the distance from the top surface of the floor to the top surface of the ceiling joists.

STORY, TWO. A building having the outside vertical walls extend from the top surface of the floor on the bottom story and intersecting at the minimum ceiling height of the second story.

STREET. A public dedicated right-of-way other than an alley, which provides primary access to abutting properties and over which the public has easement of vehicular access.

STRUCTURAL ALTERATION. Any change in the supporting members of a building such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders or any substantial changes in the roof and exterior walls.

STRUCTURE. Anything constructed, assembled or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground or attachment to something having location on or in the ground, and shall include fences which are more than 50% solid, tanks, towers, advertising devices, bins, tents, lunch wagons, trailers, dining cars, camp cars or similar structures on wheels or other supports used for business or living purposes. The word STRUCTURE shall not apply to wires and their supporting poles or frames of electrical or telephone utilities or to service utilities entirely below the ground.

SUBDIVISION. The partitioning or dividing of a parcel or tract of land by the proprietor thereof or by his or her heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives, successors or assigns for the purpose of sale, or lease of more than one year, or of building development, where the act of division creates five or more parcels of land each of which is ten acres or less in area are created by successive divisions within a period of ten years.

SWIMMING POOL. Any artificial or semi-artificial container capable of holding water to a depth of 18 inches or more at any point either above or below ground.

TOURIST-ORIENTED DIRECTIONAL SIGN. A sign used to provide motorists with advance notice of a lawful cultural, historical, recreational, educational or commercial activity that is annually attended by 2,000 or more people for which a major portion of the activity's income or visitors are derived during the normal business season.

TRAILER. Any structure used or designed for sleeping, living, business or storage purposes having no foundation other than wheels, blocks, skids, jacks or similar support and which has been or reasonably can be transported or drawn by automotive power.

USE. The principal purpose for which land or the main building is arranged, designed or intended, or for which it is or may be used, occupied or maintained.

VARIANCE. The granting to a petitioner, by the Board of Appeals, of permission to vary from the strict application of this chapter, as provided in §§ 153.030 through 153.047.

VILLAGE. The Village of Pewamo, Ionia County, Michigan.

YARD. Open space on the same lot with a building or group of buildings lying between the building and the nearest lot or street right-of-way line and unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except for plants, trees, shrubs or fences as otherwise provided herein.

YARD, FRONT. Open space extending across the full width of the lot between the front lot line or the proposed front street line and the nearest line of the building or portion thereof. The depth of such yard shall be the shortest horizontal distance between the front lot line of proposed front street line and the nearest point of the building or any portion thereof.

YARD, MINIMUM FRONT. The minimum yard requirement that extends the full width of a lot to a depth off the road right-of-way for that full width which must remain clear or open and in which no structures may be built.

YARD, REAR. Open space extending the full width of the lot between the rear line of the lot and the nearest line of the building, porch or projection thereof. The depth of such yard is the average horizontal distance between the rear lot line and the nearest point of the building. On corner lots, the REAR YARD shall be considered as parallel to the street upon which the lot has its least dimension. On both corner lots and interior lots, the REAR YARD shall in all cases be the opposite end of the lot from the front yard.

YARD, SIDE. Open, unoccupied space between the building and the side of the lot and extending from the front yard to the rear yard. Any lot line not a front line or a rear line shall be deemed a side line.

ZONING ADMINISTRATOR or ZONING OFFICIAL. The Zoning Administrator of the Village of Pewamo as designated by the Village Council.

(Ord., Art. VIII, passed 8-5-1991; Ord. 2012-02, passed - -2012; Ord., passed 5-14-2018)