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GARAGE, STORAGE. Any building or premises used for the storage only of
motor-driven vehicles by previous arrangements and not to transients, and where
no equipment, parts, fuel, grease or oil is sold and vehicles are not equipped,
serviced, repaired, hired or sold.

HOME OCCUPATION. Any activity carried out for gain by a resident conducted
as an accessory use in the resident’s dwelling unit.

HOUSE. Unless a different meaning is clearly intended by the context, “house”
shall mean a single-family dwelling.

HOTEL. A building or group of buildings containing rooms intended or designed
to be used or that are used, rented, or hired out to be occupied or that are occupied
for sleeping purposes by guests.

JUNKYARD (SALVAGE YARD). Any premises on which there is an
accumulation of scrap metal, paper, rags, glass, lumber, inoperable machinery,
tires, or other materials stored or customarily stored for salvage, buying, selling,
exchanging, dealing, disassembling, packing, bailing, wrecking, or handling,
including the accumulation of more than three (3) inoperable vehicles unless such
accumulation shall be housed in a completely enclosed building.

LOADING SPACE. An off-street space or berth on the same lot with a building
or contiguous to a group of buildings and abutting on or having direct access to a
public street or alley for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while
loading or unloading cargo.

LODGING HOUSE. A building other than a hotel where lodging only is provided
for compensation for not more than 5 persons not members of the family.

LOT. A parcel of land having frontage on a public street, occupied or intended to
be occupied by a principal structure or use and sufficient in size to meet the lot
width, lot frontage, lot area, and other open space provisions of this chapter.

LOT, CORNER. A lot abutting on 2 or more streets at their intersection, provided
that the interior angle of such intersection is less than 135°. Corner lots shall have
two “street yards,” being those sides fronting on the lots’ two public roadways,
and two side yards.

LOT, DEPTH OF. The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot
lines.

LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE. See through lot.

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