Zoning Dictionary

Category: Building/Structure

Canopy

A roof construction or cantilevered roof, free of enclosing walls, over an entrance to a building or a gasoline pump island. A roof free of enclosing walls over an entrance to a building, structure or gasoline pump island. A rigid, roof-like structure that projects from a building face, generally provides weather and shade protection, and is entirely […]

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Canopy, Weather

A permanent unenclosed roof structure erected for the purpose of sheltering motor vehicle fuel pumps and dispenser islands from the weather.

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Cantilever

1. A rigid structural element of a building or structure that extends horizontally from the building or structure and is supported only at one end. 2. A portion of a building enclosure extending beyond the face of the building levels below, which includes window bays, but excludes balconies, canopies and awnings.

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Cargo Container

Any container that permits the temporary storage and protection of cargo, and which may be transported by ship, rail or truck without intermediate loading and unloading of the contents of the container.

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Cellar

A portion of a building between two floor levels which is partly or wholly underground and which has more than one-half of its height, from finished floor to finished ceiling or to the underside of the floor joints of the storey...
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Chimney

Means a vertical shaft of reinforced concrete, masonry, or other approved material that encloses 1 or more flues, for the purpose of removing the products of combustion from solid, liquid, or gaseous fuel.

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Cistern

Containers designed and installed to store quantities of stormwater above or below ground, with a capacity greater than that of a rain barrel, as defined in this ordinance, and generally between 120 and 6,500 gallons.

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City Block

All land fronting on one side of a street between the nearest streets, intersecting, meeting or crossing the aforesaid street.

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Common Wall

A vertical wall separating two dwelling units between the top of the footings to the underside of the roof deck, and shall be mutually common to both dwelling units over forty percent of the depth of each dwelling between the front and rear yard of each dwelling.

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Court

Any open space, unobstructed from ground to sky, other than a yard, that is on the same lot with and bounded on two or more sides by the walls of a building. An open unoccupied space, other than a yard on the same lot with and bounded on three or more sides by a building […]

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