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.. Effective 9/5100 City of Centerville Ord #4 Street Line - The legal line of demarcation between a street and abutting land. Structural Alteration - Any change in the supporting members of a building or structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders; provided, however, the application of any exterior siding to an existing building for the purpose of beautifying and modernizing shall not be considered a structural alteration. Subdivision - The separation of an area, parcel or tract of land under single ownership into two or more parcels, tracts, lots, or long-term leasehold interests where the creation of the leasehold interest, necessitates the creation of streets, roads, or alleys, for residential, commercial, industrial, or other uses or any combination thereof, except those separations: A. Where all the resulting parcels, tracts, lots, or interests will be twenty (20) acres or larger in size and five hundred (SOD) feet in width for residential uses and five (5) acres or larger in size for commercial and industrial uses; and B. Creating cemetery lots; and C. Resulting from court orders, or the adjustment of a lot line by the relocation of a common boundary. The purpose or activity for which the land or building thereon is designed, arranged, or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained and shall include any manner of performance of such activity with respect to the performance standards of this ordinance. Supply Yard - A commercial establishment storing or offering for sale building supplies, steel supplies, coal, heavy equipment, feed and grain, and similar goods. Supply yards do not include the wrecking, salvaging, dismantling or storage of automobiles and similar vehicles. Townhouse - Single-family, attached units in structures housing three or more continuous dwelling units, sharing a common wall, each having separate and individual front and rear entrances; the structures being as of a row house type as distinguished from multiple dwelling apartment buildings. Travel Trailers - A mobile vehicle with wheels, designed for overnight living or camping purposes, capable of being towed by a motor vehicle. Use, Pennitted - A use that is permitted in the district under which it is listed. Usable Open Space - A ground area on a lot, which is graded, developed, landscaped or equipped or intended and maintained for recreation or leisure, available to and useable by persons occupying a dwelling unit and their guests.