DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1800. DEFINITIONS
Abutting: In the context of notice and a screening or enclosure
requirement, abutting shall mean contiguous or separated therefrom only by a
nonarterial street, alley or railroad right-of-way. In other instances,
abutting shall mean contiguous.
Accessory Use Bar: A commercial establishment open to the public which
sells and serves intoxicating or low-point beer, (as defined herein) for
consumption on the premises, but which is incidental and subordinate to a
principal use restaurant, hotel or motel, and bars which are accessory to not
for profit, bona fide lodges, posts, clubs, fraternal, benevolent or charitable
organizations which are included in Use Unit 2.
Accessory Use or
Structure: A use or
structure on the same lot with, and of a nature customarily incidental and
subordinate to, the principal use or structure.
All-Weather Material: A hard surface, dust-free
material capable, during ordinary use, of withstanding without substantial
deterioration, normal weather conditions. Gravel, rock, or screenings alone,
without use of a petroleum or cement binder, does not meet the definition of an
all-weather, dust-free material.
Anchoring Systems: A combination of ties, anchoring equipment and/or
anchoring devices that are designed to resist overturning, uplift and lateral
movement of the manufactured home from wind and water forces.
Animation: The presentation of pictorials and graphics on signs
displayed in a progression of frames which give the illusion of motion,
including but not limited to the illusion of moving objects, moving patterns or
bands of light, or expanding or contracting shapes.
Anticipated
Development: Full
potential urbanization of the contributing watershed, considering the
Comprehensive Plan and the reasonable assumption that in considering the
effects of a proposed development in a floodplain area that there will be an
equal degree of encroachment extending for a significant reach on both sides of
the stream or water course.
Arterial:
Assisted
Average Ground
Elevation: The mid
point between the highest and lowest ground elevations at the building wall.
Bar/Tavern: A commercial establishment open to the general public
which sells and serves intoxicating beverages (as defined herein) for
consumption on the premises.
Bed and Breakfast Inn. A residential structure that provides twelve or
fewer guest rooms and meals for overnight guests who pay a fee for such
services. Said structure may also be rented for special events, such as
weddings, receptions, anniversaries, private dinner parties, business seminars,
etc., as may be approved by the Board of Adjustment.
Beer Bar: A commercial establishment open to the general public
which sells and serves low-point beer (as defined herein) for consumption on
the premises.
Billiard Hall/Pool
Hall: A principal
use billiard facility, open to the general public, and which sells and serves
intoxicating and/or low-point beer (as defined herein) on the premises.
Board of Adjustment
(BOA): The Board of
Adjustment of the City of
Building: A structure which is permanently affixed to the land,
and has one or more floors and a roof, and is bounded by either another
building with a common party wall, open air, or the lot lines of a lot.
Building Setback: The horizontal distance, from the point of
measurement, such as the centerline of an abutting street or the boundary line
of an abutting zoning district to the nearest building wall.
Caliper: The diameter of the tree trunk measured at 6"
above ground level for a tree trunk having a diameter of 4" or less and
the diameter of the tree trunk measured at 12" above ground level for a tree
trunk having a diameter exceeding 4".
Carport: Any parking space or spaces having a roof, but not
enclosed by walls, and accessory to a dwelling or dwellings.. The term
"carport" shall not include any parking structure.
Changeable Copy: Copy or other images that physically change or give
the appearance of change at intervals of less than 10 minutes.
Character: Any letter of the alphabet or numeral.
City Council: The City Council of the City
Commercial Mixed Use
Development: shall
mean any development containing a combination of uses permitted by right or
special exception in a CS zoning district.
Community Group Home: A community-based residential facility for independent
living that provides room and board, personal care, and habilitation services
in a family environment as a single-housekeeping unit for 7 or more resident
elderly or disabled persons (mentally and/or physically impaired) with at least
one resident staff person.
Copy Area: [DELETED]
Core Area: Core Area shall mean a contiguous habitable floor
area, under roof, irrespective of interior walls, at least 20 feet by 20 feet
in size.
Curb Level: The mean level of the established curb at the frontage
of a lot. Where no curb has been established, the City Engineer shall establish
such curb level or its equivalent for the purposes of this Code.
Customary Residential Exterior Finishing
Materials: Roof and
siding materials traditionally used to provide the finished exterior of
single-family dwellings. Customary roofing materials include composition
shingles, fiberglass shingles, wood shingles (shakes), and clay tile applied
according to the manufacturer’s specifications. Customary siding materials include
aluminum lap or vinyl lap siding, cedar or other wood siding, masonry (stucco,
brick, stone, block, tilt-up panel) and woodgrain weather resistant pressboard
siding.
Dance Hall: A commercial establishment open to the general public
which provides a dance area of 1,000 square feet or more.
Designated Residential Development
Area: An area
specifically designated for residential development by conditions imposed in a
Planned Unit Development (PUD) or Corridor District (CO).
Detention/Correctional Facility: A facility for the detention, confinement, treatment
and/or rehabilitation of persons arrested or convicted for the violation of
civil or criminal law. Such facilities include an adult detention center,
juvenile delinquency center, pre-release center, correctional community
treatment center, jail and prison.
Development: Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real
estate, including but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging,
filling, grading, paving, excavation, or drilling operations.
Display Surface: The surface of a sign upon, against, or through which
the message is displayed or illustrated.
Display Surface Area: For ground signs shall mean the area enclosed by
the minimum imaginary rectangles which fully contains all extremities of the
sign, exclusive of its supports. This rectangle is to be calculated from an
orthographic projection of the sign viewed horizontally. A view point for this
projection is to be taken which gives the largest rectangle of that kind as the
viewpoint is rotated horizontally around the sign. If elements of the sign are
movable or flexible, the measurement shall be taken when the elements are fully
extended and parallel to the plane of view.
The display surface area for wall
signs shall mean the sum of the areas of the minimum imaginary rectangles
enclosing each word attached to any particular facade.
The display surface area for window
signs shall mean the sum of the areas of the minimum imaginary rectangles
enclosing each word, figure, design and symbol if the window or other
transparent material forms the background, or the entire area of the background
material when such material is translucent or opaque.
Dripline: The periphery of the area underneath a tree which
would be encompassed by perpendicular lines extending from the exterior edges
of the crown of the tree.
Dwell Time: The duration or interval of time during which each individual
advertisement or message is displayed on any sign which is capable of sequentially displaying
more than one advertisement or message on its display surface.
Dwelling: A building or structure used in whole or in part for
human habitation.
Dwelling, Duplex: A building containing two dwelling units, designed
for occupancy by not more than two families.
Dwelling, Manufactured
Home: A manufactured home or a mobile home used as a detach dwelling.
Dwelling, Multifamily: A building containing three or more dwelling units.
Dwelling, Townhouse: A building containing two or more attached dwelling
units with no unit above another unit and each unit located on a separate lot
within a townhouse development.
Dwelling, Single-Family
Detached: A modular
home, building or structure, other than a manufactured home or mobile home,
containing one dwelling unit designed for occupancy by not more than one
family.
Dwelling Unit: A room or group of rooms arranged, intended, or
designed as a habitable unit, containing kitchen, bath and sleeping facilities,
for not more than one family living independently of any other family.
Elderly/Retirement
Housing: A
residential complex containing multifamily dwellings designed for and
principally occupied by senior citizens. Such facilities may include a
congregate meals program in a common dining area, but exclude institutional
care such as medical or nursing care and are distinguished from life care
retirement centers as elsewhere defined.
Emergency and Protective
Shelter: A
residential facility which provides room and board for a temporary (30 days or
less) period, protection, counseling, and pre-placement screening for abused,
displaced, or transient children or adults.
Family: One or more persons occupying a single dwelling unit,
as a single housekeeping unit, provided that unless all members are related by
blood, marriage, or adoption, no such family shall contain over six persons,
including any roomers, boarders and/or domestic servants. A home for
independent living with support personnel that provides room and board,
personal care and habilitation services in a family environment as a
single-housekeeping unit for not more than six resident elderly or disabled
persons (mentally and/or physically impaired) with at least one, but not more
than two resident staff persons shall be considered a family.
Family Day Care Home: A dwelling used to house and provide supervision and
care for seven children, said total to include those preschool children under
five years of age who reside in the residence.
Flashing Illumination: A light source or other image which in whole or in
part physically changes in light intensity or gives the appearance of such
change.
Floor Area: The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several
floors, including basements, of a building measured from the exterior faces of
the exterior walls or from the centerline of walls separating two buildings.
Provided that for the purpose of determining compliance with the permitted
floor area, the floor area of enclosed required off-street parking areas shall
not be included. Provided further that floor area for outdoor display of
merchandise or customer seating, whether uncovered or covered by a tent or
canopy, under the provisions of Sections 1212, 1212a, 1213, and 1214 shall mean
the smallest rectangular area encompassing the display or customer seating
area.
Floor Area Ratio (FAR): The floor area of a building or buildings on a lot
divided by the lot area.
Foster Home: A dwelling used in whole or in part as living
quarters for a household including one or more minor children placed by a
licensed child placement agency who are not members of the family occupying
said dwelling but, are under their supervision. Further, provided that a
maximum of five children are allowed to reside in the home including any
natural children living in the home, if any children in the home are age two or
younger. If no children are under two years, the maximum number of children
residing in the home is six.
Freeway:
Freeway Sign Corridor: An area 400 feet in width on each side of and
adjacent to the publicly acquired right-of-way of a freeway.
Frontage: The lineal measurement of a lot boundary which abuts
an open public street. For the purpose
of determining compliance with Section 206 of the code, entitled “Street
Frontage Required”, frontage may also be the lineal measurement of the building
setback line when the boundary of the lot abuts a curved nonarterial open
public street or cul-de-sac.
Habitable Floor: Any floor usable for living purposes, which includes
working, sleeping, eating, cooking, or recreation, or a combination thereof. A
floor used for storage purposes only is not a "habitable floor".
Height, Building: The vertical distance measured from the average
ground elevation at the building wall to the highest horizontal point of the
structure, provided that Height Exceptions listed under Section 208.B. shall
apply.
Height, Sign: The vertical distance measured from the curb level to
the highest point of the sign.
Home Occupation: That accessory use of a dwelling which constitutes
some or all of the livelihood of a person living in the dwelling.
Intersection, Signalized: The area where motor vehicle traffic is regulated by an official traffic control signal or light,
which is also embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or if none, then the lateral boundary
lines of the roadways of two (2) streets which join one another at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which
vehicles travel upon different streets joining at any other angle which may conflict, whether or not one such street or roadway
crosses the other.
Intoxicating Beverages: All beverages containing more than three and
two-tenths percent (3.2%) alcohol by weight and all mixed beverage coolers, as
defined in Section 506 of Title 37, Oklahoma Statues, regardless of percent of
alcohol content.
Junk and Salvage Yard: An open area where wastes or used or secondhand
materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, processed, crushed or handled.
Materials shall include, but are not limited to, scrap iron and other metals,
paper, plastic, rags, rubber tires, salvaged or dismantled vehicles, vehicular
parts, wrecked vehicles, bottles and cans.
Kennel: The use of land or buildings for the purpose of
selling, breeding, boarding or training cats or dogs, or both.
Land Area: The area of a lot plus one-half or 30 feet, whichever
is less, of the right-of-way of any abutting street to which the lot has
access.
Land Coverage: The land area of a lot covered by building or
buildings, except structural parking.
Landscaped Area: The unpaved area within a lot which contains grass,
shrubs, flowers, ground cover, trees or native plant materials and which may
include decorative fixtures such as rock, pools and planters.
Livability Space: The open space of a lot which is not allocated to or
used for off-street parking areas or for paved access to off-street parking
areas. However, unenclosed parking areas or paved access to parking areas
within the rear yard accessory to a single-family or duplex dwelling shall be
considered livability space.
Loading Berth,
Off-Street: A space
of at least 10 feet in width and 30 feet in length and having a vertical
clearance of at least 14 feet, designed and located on a lot for the temporary
parking of commercial vehicles while loading or unloading merchandise or
materials.
Lot of Record: A lot which is part of a subdivision, the plat of
which has been recorded in the office of the County Clerk of the County in
which the lot is located or a parcel of land, the deed of which is recorded in
the office of the County Clerk of the County in which the parcel is located.
Low-Point Beer: Includes beverages containing more than one-half of
one percent (1/2 of 1%) alcohol by volume, and not more than three and
two-tenths percent (3.2% alcohol by weight, including but not limited to beer
or cereal malt beverages obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of an infusion
of barley or other grain, malt or similar products.
Major Appliance: Includes, but is not limited to, washers, dryers,
refrigerators, ovens/ranges, dishwashers, and other appliances not easily
carried without assistance.
Major Street Plan: The Tulsa City-County Major Street and Highway Plan,
as adopted by the Mayor and Board of Commissioners of the City of Tulsa, on
April 29, 1969, Ordinance No. 11435, or as amended by ordinance of the City of
Tulsa.
Manufactured Home: A structure, transportable in one or more sections,
which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling
with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required
utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning an electrical
systems contained therein. This
definition shall include any structure that meets all the requirements of the National Manufactured Housing Construction
and Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C.§§5401, et seq.). For mobile homes built prior to June 15,
1976, a label certifying compliance to the Standard
for Mobile Homes, National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 501, American
National Standards Institute (ANSI) 119.1, in effect at the time of
manufacture, is required. For the purposes of these provisions, a mobile home
shall be considered a manufactured home.
It does not include recreational vehicles.
Masage
Therapy: The
manipulation of soft or connective tissues of the human body to alleviate pain,
enhance circulation, improve joint mobilization, relieve stress and muscle
tension. This definition shall not
include any manipulation of the human body regulated in Title 42 Tulsa Revised
Ordinances, Section 705, governing sexually oriented businesses.
Mini-Storage: A building containing small partitioned storage
spaces which are separately and individually rented or leased for the storage
of personal goods or merchandise, but excluding commercial warehousing as
described in Use Unit 23.
Mobile Home: A manufactured home designed and constructed in
accordance with the National Manufactured
Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C.§§5401, et
seq.). For mobile homes built prior
to June 15, 1976, a label certifying compliance to the Standard for Mobile Homes, National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
501, American National Standards Institute (ANSI) 119.1, in effect at the
time of manufacture, is required.
Modular
Home: An off-frame structure, transportable in one or more
sections, which after transportation is erected on a permanent foundation and
is built in compliance with the laws of the state of Oklahoma, Title 51 Tulsa
Revised Ordinances, Chapter 2, which adopted the ICC International Residential
Code for One and Two-Family Dwellings, as amended, and all other ordinances of
the City of Tulsa governing the design, construction, quality of materials,
erection, installation, use and maintenance of the structure, including but not
limited to building, mechanical, plumbing, electrical and fire code ordinances.
Movement: Physical movement or revolution of a sign or portion
of a sign up or down, around or sideways.
NA: Not applicable.
Nameplate: A sign, attached flush against a building identifying
the name of the building or the name of an occupant thereof.
NEC: Not elsewhere classified.
Night Club: A commercial establishment open at night to the
general public, usually serving intoxicating and/or low-point beer, having a
floor show, and providing music and a space for dancing.
NIT: A unit of illuminative brightness equal to one candela per square meter,
measured perpendicular to the rays of the source.
Nonintoxicating
Beverages: [Deleted]
Nursing Home: A residential health care facility which provides
institutional lodging, nursing care, personal care and supervision to aged,
chronically ill, physically infirm, or convalescent patients who are not
related to the owner or administrator of the facility.
Parking Area: The area which includes the parking spaces, the
maneuvering areas necessary to enter and exit the spaces and the drives
providing access to the parking spaces and maneuvering areas from a public or
private street or other parking areas.
Parking Space, Off-Street: A space on a lot intended and reserved for the
parking of an automobile.
Parking Space, Required
Off-Street: A space
on a lot reserved for parking required by this Code.
Permanent Foundation: A foundation which meets the requirements established
in Title 51 Tulsa Revised Ordinances.
Personal Care: Assistance with meals, dressing, movement, bathing or
other personal needs or maintenance, or general supervision of the physical and
mental well-being of a person, who is incapable of maintaining a private,
independent residence, or who is incapable of managing his person, whether or
not a guardian has been appointed for such person.
Place
of Worship; A
facility or facilities used by persons to regularly assemble, attend, observe,
participate in or hold religious services, meetings, rituals, and other related
activities in reverence or veneration to a supernatural power, including but
not limited to a church, chapel, mosque, synagogue, temple and similar
facilities.
Planning Commission: The
Planned Unit Development
(PUD): A discretionary
type of development for a tract of land under single ownership or control,
based upon an approved development plan permitting flexibility of principal
land uses, lot sizes, and accessory uses not otherwise available under
conventional development standards.
Principal Use
Restaurant: An
eating establishment which employs at least one full-time cook, has a menu, a
fully equipped kitchen for cooking and preparation of meals and which eating
establishment, including the kitchen area but excluding the bar area, occupies
at least 75% of the total floor area of the business.
Private Club: A private commercial establishment, not open to the
general public, but which is operated for profit and which sells and serves
intoxicating and/or low-point beer (as defined herein) for consumption on the
premises.
Recreational Vehicle
(RV): A trailer,
boat trailer, travel trailer, camping trailer, truck camper, camper shell,
motor home, tent trailer, boat, houseboat, or similar vehicle or unit. Camper
shells which are attached to a pickup truck are not considered a recreational
vehicle.
Rooming and Boarding
House: A facility
wherein congregate meals and lodging are provided for its residents exclusive
of a supervised living or residential care facility as elsewhere defined (e.g.
Nursing Homes, Group Homes, Transitional Living Center, Residential Treatment
Center, etc.), and exclusive of a hotel or motel.
Setback: A horizontal distance determining the location of a
building with respect to a street, use district boundary line, or another use.
Where the term "setback" is used in conjunction with a modifying word
or words such as "parking area", the setback shall in its application
include, but not be limited to, buildings.
Sign: Any object, device, structure or part thereof used to
advertise, identify, display or attract attention to an object, person,
institution, organization, business, product, service, event or location by any
means, including words, letters, figures, designs, symbols, fixtures, colors,
illumination or projected images.
Signs as defined herein do not include the
flag or emblem of any nation, organization of nations, state, city or any
fraternal, religious or civic organizations; one corporate flag; works of art
which in no way identify a product; temporary holiday decorations; or landscape
features which display no words or symbols.
Sign, Business: Any sign which directs attention to a business,
commodity, service, or entertainment conducted on the premises.
Sign, Canopy: [Deleted] See Wall, Signs
Sign, Construction: A temporary sign erected during the period of
construction advertising the construction of improvements on the property.
Sign, Digital: A sign which displays an advertisement or message which is generated electronically
and commonly utilizes computerized or electronic digital technology, including but not limited to digital
display boards, electronic variable message signs, electronic billboards, and light emitting diode (LED) signs.
Sign, Digital Outdoor Advertising: An outdoor advertising sign which is also a digital sign.
Sign, Ground: A sign which is part of a self-supporting structure,
other than a building or portion of a building.
Sign Illuminated: Any sign which is directly lighted by any electrical
light source, internal or external, except light sources specifically and
clearly operated for the purpose of lighting the general area in which the sign
is located rather than the sign itself.
Sign, Outdoor
Advertising: A sign
which directs attention to a business, commodity, service, or entertainment,
sold or offered elsewhere than the lot on which it is located.
Sign, Portable: [Deleted]
Sign, Projecting: A sign which is affixed to a building wall and which
extends horizontally more than 15 inches from said wall. It shall also mean a
sign which is affixed to a canopy, awning or marquee and which extends
horizontally more than 15 inches from said canopy, awning or marquee.
Sign, Promotional
Business: A sign,
temporary in nature, consisting of tinsel, advertising flags, searchlights,
balloons, banners, wind devices, or similar advertising devices, whether or not
the same contain any words or characters.
Sign, Real Estate: A temporary sign advertising the sale, rental, or
lease of the lot or portion thereof on which the sign is located.
Sign, Revolving or
Rotating: A sign or
sign part which rotates or revolves.
Sign, Roof: A sign which is affixed to a roof, extended roof,
pitched roof, or canopy, and which extends above the building wall or parapet
wall.
Sign, Wall: A sign affixed to a building wall, canopy, awning,
marquee or parapet wall, or a sign displayed in or on a window or door which
does not extend horizontally more than 15 inches from the wall, canopy, awning,
marquee, parapet wall, window or door, nor extend above the parapet wall.
Special Exception: A use or a design element of a use which is not
permitted by right in a particular district because of potential adverse
affect, but which if controlled in the particular instance as to its
relationship to the neighborhood and to the general welfare, may be permitted
by the Board of Adjustment, where specifically authorized by the Code, and in
accordance with the substantive and procedural standards of the Code.
Static Message: An advertisement or message which, when displayed, contains no motion, flashing,
changeable copy, running lights, variations in brightness, or animation.
Story: A room or set of rooms on one floor level of a
building.
Storyboarding: The consecutive display of advertisements or messages on a sign, used to provide a continuing or
evolving message, theme or story.
Street
Frontage: See Frontage.
Street,
Major: Includes all classifications of streets shown and
defined by the Major Street Plan, except residential collector streets. It also includes freeways and freeway service
roads.
Street,
Minor: All
classifications of public streets not defined as major streets.
Street,
Perimeter: A public street, which abuts the exterior boundary of
a residential or non-residential development.
Street Wall: The wall or part of the building nearest to the
street line.
Street Yard: The minimum required yard (residential) abutting a
public street or the area of a lot contained between the minimum required
building setback line (nonresidential) and an abutting public street.
Structure: Anything constructed or erected with a fixed location
on the ground, or attached to something having a fixed location on the ground,
and includes buildings, parking areas, walks, fences, and signs.
Substantial
Improvement: Any
repair, reconstruction, or improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals
or exceeds 50 percent of the market value of the structure either, (1) before
the improvement or repair is started, or (2) if the structure has been damaged
and is being restored, before the damage occurred. For the purposes of this
definition "substantial improvement" is considered to occur when the
first alteration affects the external dimensions of the structure. The term
does not, however, include either (1) any project for improvement of a
structure to comply with the existing state or local health, sanitary, or
safety code specifications which are solely necessary to assure safe living
conditions, or (2) any alteration of a structure listed on the National
Register of Historic Places or a State Inventory of Historic Places.
Supplemental District: A zoning district to be mapped as an overlay to a use
district and which modifies or supplements the regulations of the general
district in recognition of distinguishing circumstances such as historic
preservation or unit development while maintaining the character and purposes
of the general use district area over which it is superimposed.
Tent: Any structure, enclosure, or shelter constructed of
fabric or other pliable material supported by any manner except by air or the
contents protected by the material. The horizontal area covered by the fabric
or other pliable material shall be considered building floor area. In
residential district a tent shall be considered a detached accessory building.
Top Plate: The horizontal timber directly carrying the trusses
of a roof or the rafters.
Townhouse Development: A subdivision containing at least three townhouse
lots.
Transition Time: The duration or interval of time between which each individual advertisement
or message is displayed on any sign which is capable of sequentially displaying more than one advertisement
or message on its display surface.
Transitional Living
Center: A
community-based residential facility that provides short-term (120 days or
less) room and board in a supervised living environment utilizing counseling
and rehabilitation services for persons with a history of juvenile delinquency,
behavioral disorders, alcoholism or drug abuse.
Tree: A woody plant having one or more defined stems or
trunks and as set forth within a list of trees certified by the Urban Forester
of the City and adopted by resolution of the Planning Commission.
Variance: A relaxation of a restriction of the Code, granted by
the Board of Adjustment, where by reason of exceptional narrowness,
shallowness, shape, topography, or other extraordinary or exceptional
situation, condition or circumstance of a particular property, the literal
enforcement of the Code restriction, would result in unnecessary hardship.
Veterinarian Clinic: A building used exclusively for the care and
treatment of animals, including incidental overnight boarding of animals within
the enclosed building, but excluding outside animal runs or boarding services.
Wind Device: Any flag, banner, pennant, streamer or similar device
that moves freely in the wind.
Word: For the purpose of this Code, one word shall be
deemed to be any of the following.
A. Any word in any language found in any standard
unabridged dictionary or dictionary of slang.
B. Any proper noun or any initial.
C. Any separate symbol or abbreviation, such as
"&", "S", "%" and "INC".
D. Any telephone number, street number or commonly used
combination of numerals and/or symbols such as "$5.00" or
"50%".
E. Any symbol or logo which is a registered trademark,
but which itself contains no word or character.
F. Otherwise, each separate character is considered to
be a word.
Yard: An open unoccupied space on a lot between a building
and a lot line.
Yard, Front: A yard extending along the full length of the front
lot lines between the side lot lines.
Yard, Required: The minimum permitted distance of open unoccupied
space between a building and a lot line.
Yard, Rear: A yard extending along the full length of the rear
lot line between the side lot lines.
Yard, Side: A yard extending along a side lot line between the
front yard and the rear yard.