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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 13, Page 956, No Ordinance NumberAN ORDINANCE AIdENDING SECTION 4 OF THE "PADUCAH ZONING ORDIHANCEI' WHICH WAS ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF COMIISSIONERS ON APRIL 8, 1952 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COVIIISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY: SECTION 1. That Section 4 of the "Paducah Zoning Ordinance" which was adopted by the Board of Commissioners on April 8, 1952, be amended and reordained so that said section as amended and reordained shall read as follows: "SECTION 4. Definitions. In this ordinance words used in the present tense include the future, the singular includes the plural and the plural the singular, and the word "lot" includes the word "plot". The word "used" includes "designed" or "intended to be used". Unless otherwise specified, all distances shall be measured hori- zontally, in any direction. The following terms, unless a contrary meaning is required by the context or is specifically prescribed, shall have the meanings indicated: 1. Accessory Building and Use - A subordinate building located on the same lot with the main building, or a subordinate use of land, either of which is customarily incident to the main building or to the principal use of the land. ;,,There a subet•dfttiAl part of the wall of an accessory building is a part of the wall of the main building or where an accessory build- ing is attached to the main building in a substantial manner as by a roof, such accessory building shall be counted as part of the main building. 2. Accessory Living :Zuarters - Living quarters within an acc- essory building, for the sole use of persons employed on the prem- ises; such quarters having no kitchen facilities and not rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling. 3. Apartment Hotel - A building or portion thereof used for or containing both individual guest rooms or suites of rooms and dwelling units designed for more or less temporary occupancy. 4. Block Frontage - 11 the property fronting on one side of a street between intersecting or intercepting streets or between a street and right-of-way, end of dead-end street or city boundary measured along the street line. 5. Board - The Board of Adjustment of the City of Paducah and itunicipal Area, I;cCracken County, Kentucky''. 6. Building_- Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls for the housing or enclosure of persons, animals or chattels. :'then any portion thereof is completely separated from every other portion thereof by a division wall without openings then each such portion shall be deemed to be a separate building. 7. Building, detached - A building having no party wall in common with another building. 8. Building, Nonconforming - A legally existing building which fails to comply with the regulations set forth in this ordi- nance applicable to the district in which this building is located. 9. Building, Semi-detached - A building having one party wall in common with an adjoining building. 10. Building, Height of - The vertical distance measured from the adjoining curb grade at a point opposite the center of the principal frontage of the building to the highest point of ceiling .of the top story in the case of a flat roof; to the deck line of a mansard roof; and to the mean height level between the eaves and ridge of a gable, hip or gambrel roof. ',Ihere buildings are set back from the street line, the height of a building may be meas- ured from the average elevation of the finished lot grade at the front of the building. 11. Building Line - The line nearest the front and across a lot establishing the minimum open space to be provided between the front line of buildings and structures and the front lot line. 12. Camp Ground - Any area or tract of land used to accommo- date two or more camping parties, including cabins, tents, house trailers, or other camping outfits. 13. Cemetery - Land used for the burial of the dead and dedi- cated for cemetery -purposes, including columbariums, crematories, mausoleums or mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within the boundary of such cemetery. 14. City - The City of Paducah, Kentucky. 15. Commission - The Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Paducah and I•1unicipal Area, hIcCracken County, Kentucky. 16. Corporation Counsel - The Corporation Counsel of the City of Paducah or any Assistant or Special Corporation Counsel of said City. 17. Court - An open unoccupied space on the same lot with a building or group of buildings and bounded on three or more sides by such building or buildings. 957 958 18. Court, Outer - A court which opens on any yard on the lot or which extends to any street line of the lot. The width of any outer court is its least horizontal dimension measured between opposite halls. The depth of any outer court is its greatest horizontal dimension measured at right angles to its width. 19. Court, Inner - Any court other than an outer court. The width of an inner court is its least horizontal dimension measured between opposite walls. The length of an inner court is its greatest horizontal himension measured at right angles to its width. 20. Dwelling - A building or portion thereof, used exclusively for residential occupancy, including one -family, two-family and multiple dwellings, but not including hotels, motels, lodging or boarding houses or tourist homes. 21. Dwelling, One -Family - A building used for residential occupancy by one family. 22. Dwelling, Tiro -Family - A building (other than a row dwelling) used for occupancy by two families living independently of each other. 23. Ihrelling, Pultiple - A building (other than a row dwelling) or portion thereof used for occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other. 24. Dwelling, Row - A building used for residential occupancy by one family having a party wall on one or two sides in common with a similar building or buildings, fronting on a street, and constituting a part of a series of two or more such buildings. 25. Dwelling Unit - A dwelling or portion of a dwelling or of an apartment hotel used by one family for cooking, living and sleeping purposes. 26. Educational Institution - Preprimary, primary or grammer, public, parochial or private school; high school, preparatory school or academy, public or founded or owned or conducted by or under the sponsorship of a religious or charitable organization; private preparatory school or academy furnishing courses of instruction substantially equivalent to the courses offered by public high schools for preparation of admission to college or universities which award B. A. or B. S. degrees; junior college, college or university, public or founded or conducted by or other the sponsorship of a religious or charitable organization; or private when hot conducted as a commercial enterprise for the profit of individual owners or stockholders. This definition shall not be deemed to include trade or business schools as defined in this Section. 959 27. E;:ecutive Secretary - The Executive Secretary of the Commission. 2$. Family - One or more persons living as a single house- keeping unit, as distinguished from a group occupying a hotel, club, fraternity or sorority house. A family shall be deemed -to include servants. 29. Garages, Private - A detached accessory building or por- tion of a main building, used for the storage of self-propelled vehicles where the capacity does not exceed three vehicles, or not more than one per family housed in the building to which such garage is accessory, whichever is the greater, and not more than one-third the total number of vehicles stored in such garage shall be commercial vehicles. Storage space for not more than three vehicles may be rented for vehicles of other than occupants of the building to which such garage is accessory. 30. Garage, Parking - Any building, except one herein defined as a private garage, used exclusively for parking of self-propelled vehicles, and which not more than two pumps for the incidental sale of gasoline. 31. Grade, Curb - The elevation of the top of the face of the curb as fixed by the City. 32. Ground Floor Area - The square foot area of a residential building within its largest outside dimensions, exclusive of open porches, breezeaays, terraces, garages, exterior stairways and secondary stairways. 33. Home Occupation or Profession - Any use customarily conduct- ed entirely within a dwelling and carried on by the occupants there- of, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the duelling for dwelling purposes and does not change the character thereof, and in connection with which there is not display, no stock - in -trade, no outside storage of equipment nor commodity sold upon the premises and not more than two (2) persons are engaged in such occupation. Such uses as barber shop, beauty parlor, tea room, tourist home and animal hospital shall not be deemed to be home occupations. 34. Hospital - Includes "sanitarium","sanatorium°', "preventorium", "clinic", provided such institution is operated by, or treatment given under direct supervision of, a physician licensed to prac- tice by the State of Kentucky. •.e 35. Hotel - A building or portion thereof used for the more or less temporary occupancy of individuals who are lodged with or without meals and in which provision for cooking is made pre- ponderantly in a central kitchen and not in individual rooms or suites. 36. Junk Yard, Including Automobile Wrecking - A lot or part thereof used for the storage, keeping or abandonment of junk, in- cluding scrap metal or other vehicles or machinery or parts thereof. 37. Lodging House - A building with more than two but not more than ten guest rooms where lodging with or without meals is provided for compensation. 38. Lot - A parcel of land defined by metes and bounds or boundary lines in a recorded deed or on a recorded plat, fronting on a street. In determining lot area and boundary lines no part thereof within the limits of the street shall be included. 39. Lot, Corner - A lot at the junction of and fronting on two or more intersecting streets both of which are 20 feet or more in width. 40. Lot Through - A lot other than a corner lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets. 41. Lot width - The distance parallelto the front of a build- ing erected or to be erected, measured between side lot lines at the building line. 42. K. tel - A permanent building or group of buildings con- taining rooms.without cooking facilities, used, rented or hired out for the more or less temporary occupancy of overnight guests. 43. %Tunicipal Area - Unincorporated lands in PicCracken County, Kentucky, adjoining the City. 44. Parking Area, Public - An open area, other than a street, used for the temporary parking of more than four automobiles and available for public use, whether free, for compensation or as an accommodation for clients or customers. 45. Parking Space (OffOstreet), One - A space on private land, accessible from a street or alley, not less than ten (10) feet wide and seventeen (17) feet long exclusive of passageways. 46. Sign - Any advertisement, announcement, direction or communication produced in whole or in part by the construction, erection, affixing or placing of a structure on any land or on any other structure, or produced by painting on or posting or placing any printed, letered, pictured, figured or colored material on any building, structure, or surface. Signs placed or erected by 961 governmental agencies or non-profit civil associationd for a public purpose or in the public interest shall not be included herein, nor shall this include signs which are a part of the architectural design of a building. 47. Story - That portion of a building included between the surface of any _"loor and the surface of the floor next about it, or if there be no floor above it, then the space between any floor and the ceiling next above it. A basement shall not be counted as a story unless the height of the surface of the first floor above the average elevation of the finished lot grade at the front of the building exceeds _"our (4) feet. 40. Story, Half - A story under a gable, hip or gambrel roof, the mall plates of which on at least two (2) opposite exterior walls are not more than two (2) feet above the floor of such story. 49. Street - A public way established by or maintained under public authority, a private way open for public uses, and a pri- vate way plotted or laid out for ultimate public use, whether or not constructed. 50. Structure - Anything constructed or erected which re- quires location on the ground or attachment to something having a location of the ground. 51. Tourist Home - A building in which more than one but not more than five guest rooms are used to provide or offer overnight accommodations for transient guests for compensation. 52. Trade or Business School - Secretarial school or college, or business school or college, when not public and not owned or conducted by or under the sponsorship of a religious or charitable organization; school conducted as commercial enterprise for teach- ing instrumental music, dancing, barbering or hairdressing or for teaching industrial skills in which machinery is employed as a means of instruction. This definition shall not be deemed to in- clude educational institution as defined in this Section. 53. Use, 'Nonconforming; - An existing use of land or building which was legal prior to the effective date hereof but which fails to comply with the regulations set forth in this ordinance applicable to the district in which such use is located. 54. Yard - A space on the same lot with a main building, open, unoccupied and unobstructed by buildings, or structures from the ground to the sky, except as other%rise provided in this ordinance. 962 55. Yard, Front - A yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth of which shall be the least distance between the front lot line and the front of the main building. 56. Yard, Rear - A yard extending across the full width of the lot between the rearmost main building and the rear lot line, the depth of which shall be the least distance between the rear lot line and the rear of such main building. 57. Yard, Side - A yard between the main building and the side lot line, extending from the front yard or front lot line where no front yard is required, to the rear yard. The width of the required side yard shall be measured horizontally from the nearest point of the side lot line toward the nearest part of the main building." SECTION 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption. ilaydr Passed by the Board of Commissioners September 26, 1958 Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, September 26, 1950