“Accessory structure or use” means a structure or use incidental and subordinate to the principal use of the property and which is located on the same lot with the principal use.

“Agriculture” means the use of land for agricultural purposes, including farming, dairying, pasturage, agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, viticulture, and animal and poultry husbandry.

“Alley” means a narrow service street 20 feet or less in width, through a block primarily for vehicular service access to the rear or side of properties otherwise abutting on another street.

Apartment House. See “Dwelling, multifamily.”

“Automobile wrecking yard” means an area of land where one or more motor vehicles, machinery or equipment drawn or operated by a motorized mechanical unit, not in running or operable condition, or parts thereof, are stored in the open; and any land, building or structure used for wrecking or storing of such motor vehicles, machinery, or parts thereof.

“Basement” means that portion of a building between the floor and ceiling which is partly below and partly above grade, but so located that the average vertical distance from the grade to the floor below is equal to one-half or more of the vertical distance from the grade to the ceiling.

“Billboard” means a sign which has a flat surface sign space upon which advertising may be posted, painted, or affixed, and which is primarily designed for the rental or lease of such sign space for advertising not relating to the use of the property upon which the sign exists.

“Board” means the board of adjustment of the city of Ida Grove, Iowa.

“Boarding, lodging, or rooming house” means a building where lodging with or without meals is provided for compensation for not more than five guests.

“Building” means a structure built for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind, and permanently affixed to the land.

Cellar. See “Basement.”

“Clerk” means the city clerk/administrator of the city of Ida Grove, Iowa.

“Commission” means the city planning and zoning commission of the city of Ida Grove, Iowa.

“Council” means the city council of the city of Ida Grove, Iowa.

“District” means the area defined as a zoning district within which certain zoning provisions apply under this chapter.

“Dwelling, multiple” means a residence designed for or occupied by three or more families, with separate housekeeping and cooking facilities for each.

“Dwelling, single-family” means a detached residence designed for or occupied by one family only.

“Dwelling, two-family” means a residence designed for or occupied by two families only, with separate housekeeping and cooking facilities for each.

“Dwelling unit” means a building, dwelling, room or a suite of two or more habitable rooms which are occupied or which are intended or designed to be occupied by one family with facilities for living, sleeping, cooking and eating, but not including trailers.

“Employees” means all persons, including proprietors, working on the premises during the largest shift of employment.

“Factory-built (modular) house” means a structure built at a factory and inspected for compliance with either the Uniform Building Code, the Uniform Plumbing Code, the Uniform Mechanical Code and the National Electrical Code or the One- and Two-Family Dwelling Code, each with certain amendments as adopted as the Iowa State Building Code and mandatory for all such structures placed in Iowa. Compliance is evidenced by a seal issued by the State Building Code Commissioner and attached to the house and accompanied by a copy of the manufacturer’s certificate of compliance.

“Family” means one or more persons related by blood, marriage, adoption, or legal guardianship occupying a dwelling unit and living as a single household or housekeeping unit, or a group of not more than five persons unrelated by blood, marriage, adoption or legal guardianship living as a single household or housekeeping unit.

“Floor area” means the area included in surrounding walls of a building or portion thereof, exclusive of vents, shafts, or courts.

“Garage, private” means an accessory building or portion of a principal building used for the parking or temporary storage of vehicles owned or used by occupants of the principal building.

“Garage, public” means a building other than a private garage used for the care, storage and repair of motor vehicles or where such vehicles are parked or stored for compensation, hire or sale.

“Grade” means the average ground level of the finished surface of the ground at the exterior walls of the building or structure.

“Height of building” means the vertical distance from the grade to the highest point of the coping of a parapet wall; to the fascia or gravel top of a flat or sloping roof; or to the ridge line of gable, mansard, hip, gambrel, barrel or arched roofs.

“Home occupation” means an occupation or profession carried on within a dwelling by a member of the family residing in the dwelling which meets all of the following conditions:

“Hospital” means an establishment which provides sleeping and eating facilities to persons receiving medical, obstetrical or surgical care and nursing service on a continuous basis.

“Hotel” means a building containing rooms designed and intended to be used, or which are used, rented, or hired out for lodging for 10 or more guests, with or without meals, in contradistinction to a lodging house.

House Trailer. See “Trailer.”

Junkyard. See “Automobile wrecking yard.”

Lodging House. See “Boarding, lodging or rooming house.”

“Lot” means a parcel or tract of land which is or may be occupied by a use herein permitted, together with yards and other open spaces herein required, that has frontage upon a street, and is a part of a recorded subdivision plat or has been recorded prior to the adoption of this chapter.

“Lot area” means the total area, on a horizontal plane, within the lot lines of a lot.

“Lot, corner” means a lot abutting on two intersecting streets other than an alley; provided, that the streets do not intersect at an angle greater than 135 degrees.

“Lot depth” means the mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines.

“Lot line” means the property line bounding a lot.

“Lot line, front” means the lot line abutting on the street. In the case of an interior lot, the lot line separating the lot from the street other than an alley; in the case of a corner lot, the shortest lot line along a street other than an alley.

“Lot line, rear” means a lot line which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line, if any.

“Lot line, side” means any lot line not a front or rear lot line.

“Lot of record” means a parcel of land or a lot which is a part of a subdivision, the plat of which has been recorded in the office of the county recorder of Ida County.

“Lot width” means the width of a lot measured at the building line and at right angles to its depth.

“Lot, zoned” means a parcel of land which (at the time of filing for a building permit) is designated by its owner or developer as a parcel of land to be used, developed or built upon a unit under a single ownership or unified control. (A “zoned lot” may or may not coincide with a lot of record.)

“Mobile home (manufactured home)” means a structure built in a factory to the construction and safety standards established under the authority of 42 U.S.C. Section 5403.

“Mobile home park or trailer park” means any lot or portion of a lot upon which two or more mobile homes or trailers occupied for dwelling or sleeping purposes are located, regardless of whether or not a charge is made for such accommodations.

“Motel or motor court” means a building or a group of buildings on the same lot containing guest units and designed, intended, used, or occupied for sleeping and living quarters with or without cooking facilities, and for rental to transient guests or others.

Motor Hotel. See “Motel or motor court.”

“Nonconforming building or use” means a lawful existing building or use at the time of passage of this chapter which does not conform to the yard, height, or use requirements of the district in which it is located.

“Nursing or convalescent home” means a building or structure having accommodations and where care is provided for invalid, infirmed, aged, convalescent, or physically disabled or injured persons, not including insane and other mental cases, inebriate or contagious cases.

“Persons” means every natural person, firm, partnership, association or corporation.

“Satellite receiving antenna” means an accessory structure often called a “dish” or “earth station antenna,” the purpose of which is to receive communications, including but not limited to radio and television or other signals from satellite and other extraterrestrial sources, whether affixed to the ground as a permanent structure or a mobile unit such as a trailer or vehicle or placed atop an existing structure.

“Sign” means a presentation or representation, other than a house number, by words, letters, figures, designs, pictures, lights or color publicly displayed so as to give notice relative to a person, a business, an article of merchandise, a service, an assemblage, a solicitation, or a request for aid or other types of advertising. This includes the board, metal, or surface upon which the sign is painted, included or attached. Each display surface of a sign shall be considered to be a sign.

“Street” means the entire width between the boundary lines of a public right-of-way more than 20 feet in width which provides for public means of access to abutting property or for public use for the purpose of vehicular and pedestrian traffic and the placement of utilities and including the terms “road,” “highway,” “land,” “place,” “avenue,” or similar designations.

“Substantial repair” means any repair, reconstruction or improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50 percent of the market value of the structure.

“Trailer” means any mobile structure or vehicle arranged, constructed or designed to permit human occupancy for dwelling or sleeping purposes.

“Travel trailer or camping trailer” means a vehicle with or without motive power used or so manufactured or constructed as to permit it being used as a conveyance upon the public streets and highways and so designed to permit the vehicle to be used as a place of human habitation by one or more persons. Such vehicle shall be customarily or ordinarily used for vacation or recreation purposes and not used as a place of human habitation for more than 90 days in any 12-month period, or it shall be classed as a mobile home.

“Use” means the purpose for which land or a structure is designed, arranged, intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained.

“Use, principal” means the principal use for which the land or building is designed, arranged, intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained.

“Use, special” means a use, either private, semi-public, or public which is not classified as a principal use in a district or districts and for which a special use permit must be obtained.

“Yard” means an open space on a lot which is unobstructed from the ground upward except as otherwise provided in this chapter.

“Yard, front” means an open space extending along the full length of the front lot line (street line) between the side lot lines and being the minimum horizontal distance between the front lot line (street line) and the face of the building walls.

“Zoning administrator” means the administrative officer appointed by the Ida Grove city council to administer and enforce the regulations included in this chapter. [Ord. 606, 2022; Code 1975 § 6-5.0102.]