§ 2.1. Terms Pertaining to "Use" are Defined.
(a)
Family means one or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption; or a group of not more than five persons who are not related by blood or marriage or adoption occupying a living unit as an individual housekeeping organization.
(b)
Living unit means the room or rooms occupied by a family. The living unit must include a kitchen.
(c)
(1)
Dwelling means a building used entirely for residential purposes, but not hotels or motels, and must have:
a.
A roof pitch of no less than three inches of vertical rise to every 12 inches of horizontal run.
b.
Roofing materials consisting of composition asphalt shingle, fiberglass shingle, wood shake, baked tile, crushed rock or other material commonly accepted in the industry and approved by the building inspector.
c.
A roof overhang of not less than one foot measured from the vertical side of the home. When attached carports, garages, porches or similar structures are an integral part of the home, this overhang may be waived where the accessory structure is attached to the home.
d.
Siding material consisting of wood or wood products, stucco, brick, horizontal lap steel or aluminum, horizontal lap vinyl or rock.
e.
Proper guttering attached.
(2)
Single family dwelling means a building that contains only one living unit. All single-family dwellings must contain at least 960 square feet of living space, excluding garages, carports and accessory buildings.
(3)
Two-family dwelling means a building that contains only two living units.
(4)
Multiple dwelling means a building that contains more than two living units.
(d)
(1) Lodginghouse means a dwelling consisting of not more than one living unit occupied by not more than 20 persons not related by blood, marriage or adoption where a room is provided for compensation. This term includes roominghouse, boardinghouse and tourist home.
(2)
Nursing or convalescent home means a private home, institution, building, residence or other place, whether operated for profit or not, which provides maintenance, personal care or nursing for three or more individuals not related to the operator, who are unable to care for themselves; or provides sheltered care to three or more nonrelated individuals which includes treatment or services which meet a need of the individual beyond the basic requirements of food, shelter and laundry. The term shall not include the following:
a.
A home operated by the Federal or State Government or any agency or subdivision thereof.
b.
A hospital or other institution whose principal activity is to provide facilities for the care or treatment of persons suffering from a mental or nervous disorder.
c.
A hospital licensed under provisions of Chapter 197 RSMo.
d.
Any child welfare facility or maternity hospital which is licensed by the State of Missouri.
(e)
Hotel is a dwelling not consisting of living units and occupied by more than 20 persons as a temporary place of residence by individuals who are lodged for compensation. Apartment hotel is a multiple dwelling under resident supervision which maintains an inner lobby through which all tenants must pass to gain access to the apartments and which may furnish services ordinarily furnished by hotels, such as drugstore, barbershop, cosmetologist's shop, cigar stand or newsstand, when such uses are located entirely within a building with no entrance from the street nor visible from any sidewalk, and having no sign or display visible from the outside of the building indicating the existence of such use.
(f)
Motel is an inn or group of cabins designed for occupancy by paying guests.
(g)
Institution is a nonprofit establishment for public use.
(h)
Mobile home means a factory-built structure or structures which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length or, when erected on site, contains 320 or more square feet equipped with the necessary service connections and made so as to be readily movable as a unit or units or their own running gear and designed to be used as a dwelling unit or units with or without a permanent foundation. The phrase without a permanent foundation indicates that the support system is constructed with the intent that the mobile home placed thereon may be moved from time to time at the convenience of the owner.
(i)
Clinic is an establishment occupied by one or more members of a healing profession.
(j)
Farm. An area which is used for the growing of the usual farm products such as vegetables, fruit, trees and grain, and their storage on the area, as well as for raising thereon of the usual farm poultry and farm animals, such as horses, cattle, sheep and swine.
(k)
Garage apartment. A living unit for not more than one family erected above a garage, adjacent to a garage or on the rear of a lot.
(l)
Manufactured or modular home means a factory-fabricated transportable building unit designed to be used by itself or to be incorporated with similar units at a building site into a modular structure to be used for residential, commercial, educational or industrial purposes and bearing a seal issued by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development according to Missouri Statute Section 700.010 et seq. or meets current BOCA standards.
(Ord. No. 2085, § 1, 10-5-70; Ord. No. 2165, § 1, 12-20-73; Ord. No. 2946, §§ 1—3, 11-20-89; Ord. No. 3437, § 1, 9-15-97; Ord. No. 4084, § 1, 1-22-08)