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Effective 9/5/00 <br /> City of Centerville Ord. #4 <br /> Travel Trailers - A mobile vehicle with wheels, designed for ovemight living or camping <br /> purposes, capable of being towed by a motor vehicle. <br /> Use, Permitted - A use that is permitted in the district under which it is listed. <br /> Usable Open Space - A ground area on a lot, which is graded, developed, landscaped or <br /> equipped or intended and maintained for recreation or leisure, available to and useable by <br /> persons occupying a dwelling unit and their guests. <br /> Variance - The waiving by Board action of the literal provisions of the Zoning Ordinance in <br /> instances where their strict enforcement would cause undue hardship because of <br /> circumstances unique to the individual property under consideration. <br /> Vehicle - Any vehicle which is self - propelled or designed to be pushed or pulled and shall <br /> include, but not be limited to, automobile, busses, motorbikes, motorcycles, motor scooters, <br /> trucks, tractors, go -carts, golf carts, campers, trailers, boats, planes and gliders. <br /> Vehicle Abandoned - Any vehicle as defined in this section, which does not have lawfully <br /> affixed or attached thereto an un- expired state registration or license plate or plates, or the <br /> condition of which is wrecked, dismantled, partially dismantled, inoperative, abandoned or <br /> discarded. <br /> Water - Oriented Accessory Structure or Facility - A small above ground building or other <br /> improvement except stairways, fences, docks, and retaining walls, which, because of the <br /> relationship of its use to a surface water feature, reasonably needs to be located closer to <br /> public waters than the normal structure setback. Examples of such structures and facilities <br /> include boathouses, gazebos, screen houses, fish houses, pump houses, and detached <br /> decks. <br /> Wetland - Lands transitional between terrestrial and aquatic systems where the water table <br /> is usually at or near the surface or the land or is covered by shallow water. For purposes of <br /> this definition, wetlands must have the following three characteristics: <br /> A. Predominance of hydric soils; and <br /> B. Are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency <br /> and duration sufficient to support a prevalence of hydrophytic <br /> vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions; and <br /> C. Under normal circumstances support a prevalence of such <br /> vegetation. <br /> Yard - A required open space on a lot which is unoccupied and unobstructed from the <br /> ground upward, except as otherwise provided for herein. The measurement of a yard shall <br /> be construed as the minimum horizontal distance between the lot line and the building line. <br /> Page 13 of 62 <br />