(1) Accessory Buildings. Any structure incidental, appropriate, and subordinate to the main use of the property, and located on the same lot.

(2) Administrative Official. The Building Inspector of the Town of Garfield.

(3) Animals for Profit. Animals for profit must be raised on site. All animal Chapters must be complied with.

(4) Apartment. A room or suite of rooms in a multiple-family structure which is arranged, designed, used or intended to be used as a housekeeping unit for a single family.

(5) Boundary. The lot lines describing a lot of record.

(6) Building. Any structure built for support, shelter, or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels, or structures of any kind.

(7) Building Height. Vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed structure’s finished grade at the front of the building to the highest point of the roof for flat and mansard roofs, and to the average height between eaves and ridge for other types of roofs.

(8) Commercial Activities. An establishment or business that generally has retail or wholesale sales, office uses, or services which do not generate noise or other impacts considered incompatible with less intense uses.

(9) Conditional Uses. Uses for which a conditional use permit is required.

(10) Cottage Industry. A commercial activity conducted from an accessory building of a residence, provided that no more than two outside individuals are employed at any given time. The business must be owned and operated by the person or persons living in the residence.

(11) 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.

(12) Duplex. A dwelling unit containing two apartments or containing two families.

(13) Dwelling Unit. A structure containing one family.

(14) Front Street. A street most nearly aligned with the front or main entrance of a structure.

(16) Home Occupation. An accessory use of a service character conducted within a dwelling by the residents thereof, with no more than 2 outside employees, which is clearly secondary to the dwellings use for living purposes and does not change the dwelling’s character.

(17) Industrial Uses. All business activities outside the definition of “Commercial Activities” including all manufacturing.

(18) Lot Area. The total horizontal land area within the lot lines of a parcel of land, exclusive of public or private roads and easements of vehicular access to other property.

(19) Mobile or Manufactured Home. (Subsequently referred to interchangeably as “manufactured home, or mobile home”.) A structure that is transportable in one or more sections and assembled off site, and is built on a permanent chassis, and is designed to be used with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities as a dwelling. This definition does not include recreational vehicles or travel trailers.

(20) Mobile Home Park. A parcel of land (or contiguous parcels) divided into two or more mobile home lots for sale or rent.

(21) Modular Home. A factory-assembled structure designed primarily for use as a dwelling when connected to the required utilities that include plumbing, heating, and electrical systems contained therein, does not contain its own running gear, and must be mounted on a permanent foundation. A modular home does not and never did include a mobile home or manufactured home.

(22) Multiple Family Dwelling. A dwelling unit containing 3 or more units.

(23) New Construction. Structures for which the “start of construction” commenced on or after the effective date of this chapter.

(24) Nonconforming Use. Any use, building, and/or structure not in compliance with any one or all of the provisions herein contained, which existed legally at the time of the adoption of this Chapter.

(25) Off-Street Parking Space. An off-street surfaced area of not less than nine feet by twenty feet in size, exclusive of maneuvering and access area, permanently reserved for the temporary storage of one automobile and connected with a street by a surfaced driveway.

(26) Outside Individuals. Those persons not living on the property.

(27) Outright Uses. Uses for which no use permit is required.

(28) Permited Use. The specific purpose for which land and/or buildings is designated, arranged, intended, or for which it may be occupied or maintained. The term “permitted use” or its equivalent shall be deemed to include any nonconforming use.

(29) Private Club. A non-profit, social organization whose premises are restricted to its members and their guests, and which premises may include certain structures and buildings used primarily for the accommodation of its members.

(30) Private Agricultural Storage. Means of storing agricultural products raised and owned by the property owners.

(31) Private Parks. Recreation facilities privately owned but available to the general public

(32) Public Building. A building constructed for public purposes and usage by agencies and departments of local, county, state, or federal government.

(33) Sales Outlet. A facility for conducting business that is primarily selling.

(34) Setback. The distance in feet as measured from a lot line to the sill line of a building, or the closest point to the lot line of a structure.

(35) Side Street. Any street that does not qualify as a front street.

(36) Sign. An identification, description, illustration, or device which is affixed to or represented, directly or indirectly, upon a structure or land, and which directs attention to a product, place, activity, person, institution, business, or profession.

(37) Structure. A walled and roofed building or mobile home that is principally above ground.

(38) Substantial Improvement. Any repair, reconstruction, or improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50% of the market value of the structure either:

“Substantial improvement” is considered to occur when the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor, or other structural part of the building commences, whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the structure. “Substantial improvement” does not, however, include either:

(39) Yard, Front. An open space extending the full width of the lot between a main building and the front lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed by buildings or structures from the ground upward, and depth of which shall be the least distance between the front lot line and the front of the main building.

(40) Yard, Rear. An open space extending the full width of the lot between the rear-most main building and the rear lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed by buildings or structures from the ground upward, the depth of which will be the least distance between the rear lot line and the rear of such buildings.

(41) Yard, Side. An open space extending from the front yard to the rear yard, between a main building and a side lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed by buildings or structures from the ground upward. The required width of side yards shall be measured horizontally from the nearest point of the side lot line to the nearest part of the main building. (Ord. 430-N, §2, 2013)