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<br />4 Amended:
<br />J Amended: 9/4/01
<br />2 Amended: 6/27/01
<br />1 Amended: l! 1 % I
<br />Effective 9/5/00
<br />City of Centerville Ord. #4
<br />techniques and farming practices are used in accordance with the provision of this ordinance. Where
<br />specific information is not available, steep slopes are land having average slopes over twelve percent
<br />(12%), as measured over horizontal distances of fifty (50) feet or more.
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<br />Street Access - A public thoroughfare, which affords the principal means of abutting land.
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<br />Street Line - The legal line of demarcation between a street and abutting land.
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<br />Structure - Anything constructed or erected, the use which requires a location on the ground, or attached
<br />to something having a location on the ground, or an attachment to something having a fixed location on
<br />the ground; including, in addition to buildings, billboards, carports, porches, decks and other building
<br />features, but not including sidewalks, drives, swing-sets, enclosed play structures under fifty (50) square
<br />feet, fences and patios.
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<br />Structural Alteration - Any change in the supporting members of a building or structure, such as bearing
<br />walls, columns, beams, or girders; provided, however, the application of any exterior siding to an existing
<br />building for the purpose of beautifying and modernizing shall not be considered a structural alteration.
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<br />Subdivision - The separation of an area, parcel or tract of land under single ownership into two or more
<br />parcels, tracts, lots, or long-term leasehold interests where the creation of the leasehold interest,
<br />necessitates the creation of streets, roads, or alleys, for residential, commercial, industrial, or other uses
<br />or any combination thereof, except those separations:
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<br />A. Where all the resulting parcels, tracts, lots, or interests will be twenty (20) acres or
<br />larger in size and five hundred (500) feet in width for residential uses and five (5)
<br />acres or larger in size for commercial and industrial uses; and
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<br />B. Creating cemetery lots; and
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<br />C. Resulting from court orders, or the adjustment of a lot line by the relocation of a
<br />common boundary. The purpose or activity for which the land or building thereon is
<br />designed, arranged, or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained and shall
<br />include any manner of performance of such activity with respect to the performance
<br />standards of this ordinance.
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<br />Supply Yard - A commercial establishment storing or offering for sale building supplies, steel supplies,
<br />coal, heavy equipment, feed and grain, and similar goods. Supply yards do not include the wrecking,
<br />salvaging, dismantling or storage of automobiles and similar vehicles.
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<br />Townhouse - Single-family, attached units in structures housing three or more continuous dwelling units,
<br />sharing a common wall, each having separate and individual front and rear entrances; the structures
<br />,eing as of a row house type as distinguished from multiple dwelling apartment buildings.
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