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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10789r. r � 4 ORDINANCE NO. 10,789 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF THE LITTLE ROCK ZONING ORDINANCE, ORDINANCE NO. 5420 AS AMENDED: AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS: M ° SECTION 1. That Section 1 of the Little Rock Zoning Ordinance, M l� being Ordinance No. 5420 as amended, is hereby amended to read as � H follows: 04 SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. �u 0 For the purpose of this ordinance words used in the present o tense include the future, the singular includes the plural and ,q n the plural singular, the word "lot" includes the word "plot ", ro 3% b g the word "used" includes "designed" or "intended to be used ", 0 aoi the word "building" includes the word "structure ", and the W word "shall" is mandatory and not discretionary. Unless otherwise specified, all distances shall be measured horizontally, in any direction. The following terms, unless a contrary meaning is required by the context or is specifically prescribed, shall have the meanings indicated: 1. Accessory Building and Use - A subordinate building located on the same lot with the main building, or a sub- ordinate use of land, either of which is customarily inci- dent to the main building or to the principal use of the 1 and . Where a substantial part of the wall of an accessory build- ing is a part of the wall of the main building or where an accessory building is attached to the main building in a substantial manner as by a roof, such accessory building shall be counted as part of the main building. 2. Accessory Living Quarters - Living quarters within an accessory building, for the sole use of persons employed on the premises; such quarters having no kitchen facilities and not rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling. F}6 3. Alley - A permanent public service way which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property. 4. Apartment Hotel - A building or portion thereof used for or containing both individual guest rooms or suites of rooms and dwelling units designed for more or less temporary occupancy. 5. Apartment House - See: Dwelling, Multiple. 6. Basement - A story partly under - ground and having at least one -half of its height above the average level of the adjoining ground. A basement shall be counted as a story if sub - divided and used for dwelling or business purposes. 7. Boarding House - A building other than a hotel, where lodging and meals for five or more persons are served for compensation. A boarding house may also include the dwell- ing unit occupied by the owner or operator. 8. Building - Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls for the housing or enclosure of persons, animals or chattels. When any portion thereof is complete- ly separated from every other portion thereof by a division wall without openings then each such portion shall be deemed to be a separate building. 9. Building, Detached - A building having no party wall in common with another building. 10. Building, Nonconforming - A legally existing building which fails to comply with the regulations (for height, number of stories, size, area, yards and location) set forth in this ordinance applicable to the district in which this building is located. 11. Building, Semi- detached - A building having one party wall in common with an adjacent building. 12. Building, Height of - The vertical distance measured from the adjoining curb grade at a point opposite the center of the principal frontage of the building to the highest point of ceiling of the top story in the case of a flat roof; to the deck line of a mansard roof; and to the mean height level between the eaves and ridge of a gable, hip or gambrel roof. Where buildings are set back from the street line, the height of a building may be measured from the average elevation of the finished lot grade at the front of the building. 13. Building Setback Line - The line nearest the street and across a lot establishing the minimum open space to be provided between buildings and specified structures and street lines. 14. Camp Ground - Any area or tract of land used to ac- commodate two or more camping parties, including cabins, tents, house trailers, or other camping outfits. 15. Cellar - A story having more than one -half of its height below the average level of the adjoining ground. A cellar shall not be counted as a story for purposes of height measurement. 16. Cemetery - hand used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including columbariums, crematories, mausoleums and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within the boundary of such cemetery. 17. City - The City of Little Rock, Arkansas. 18. Commission - The Little Rock Planning Commission. 19. Curb Level - The level of the established curb in front of the building measured at the center of such front. Where no curb has been established the city engineer shall establish such curb level or its equivalent for the purpose of this ordinance. 20. Dwelling - A building or portion thereof, used exclusive- ly for residential occupancy, including one - family, two - family and multiple dwellings, but not including hotels, motels, lodging or boarding houses or tourist homes. 21. Dwelling, One- Family - A detached building used for residential occupancy by one family. 22. Dwelling, Two - Family - A detached or semi - detached building used for residential occupancy by two families living independently of each other. 23. Dwelling, Multiple - A building or portion thereof used for occupancy by three or more families living inde- pendently of each other, and doing their own cooking in said building, including apartments, group houses and row houses. 24. Dwelling Unit - A building or portion thereof used by one family for cooking, living and sleeping purposes. 25. Educational Institution Preprimary, primary or grammar, public, parochial or private school, high school, preparatory school or academy, public or founded or owned or conducted by or under the sponsorship of a religious or charitable organization; private preparatory school or academy furnishing courses of instruction substantially equivalent to the courses offered by public high schools for preparation of admission to college or universities which award B. A. or B. S. degrees; junior college, college or university, public or founded or conducted by or under the sponsorship of a religious or charitable organization; or private when not conducted as a commercial enterprise for the profit of individual owners or stockholders. This definition shall not be deemed to include trade or business schools as defined in this Section. 26. Family - One or more persons occupying a premises and living as a single housekeeping unit, as distinguished from a group occupying a boarding or lodging house, hotel, club, fraternity or sorority house. A family shall be deemed to include servants. 27. Garage, Private - A detached accessory building or portion of a main building, used for the storage of self - propelled vehicles where the capacity does not exceed three vehicles, or not more than one per family housed in the building to which such garage is accessory, whichever is the greater, and not more than one -third the total number of vehicles stored in such garage shall be commercial vehicles. Storage space for not more than three vehicles may be rented for vehicles of other than occupants of the building to which such garage is accessory. 28. Garage, Parking or Storage - Any building, except one herein defined as a private garage, used exclusively for parking of self - propelled vehicles, and with not more than two pumps for the incidental sale of gasoline. 29. Garage, Public or Repair - Any premises, except those described as a private or parking garage, used for the storage or care of self - propelled vehicles, or where any such vehicles are equipped for operation, repaired or kept for remuneration, hire or sale. 30. Ground Floor Area - The square foot area of a building within its largest outside dimensions, exclusive of open porches, breezeways, terraces, garages, exterior stairways and secondary stairways. 31. Group Houses - A group of dwellings not more than two rooms deep facing upon a place as herein defined. 32. Hbme Occupation or Profession - Any use customarily con- ducted entirely within a dwelling and carried on by the occupants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes and does not change the character thereof, and in con- nection with which there is no display, no stock -in- trade, no outside storage of equipment nor commodity sold upon the premises and not more than two (2) persons are engaged in such occupation. Such uses as barber shop, beauty parlor, tea room, tourist home and animal hospital and dancing school shall not be deemed to be home occupations. 33. Hospital - Includes "sanitarium", "sanatorium ", "prevent - orium", "clinic ", provided such institution is operated by, or treatment given under direct supervision of, a physician licensed to practice by the State of Arkansas. 34. Hotel - A building or portion thereof used as the more or less temporary abiding place of individuals who are lodged with or without meals and in which there are more than twelve sleeping rooms usually occupied singly and in which provision for cooking is made pre- ponderantly in a central kitchen. 35. Junk Yard, Including Automobile Wrecking - A lot or part thereof used for the storage, keeping or abandonment of junk, including scrap metal or other vehicles or ma- chinery or parts thereof. 36. Lodging House - A building other than a hotel, where lodging, without meals, for five (5) or more persons is provided for compensation. 37. Lot - A parcel of land defined by metes and bounds or boundary lines in a recorded deed or on a recorded plat, fronting on a street. In determining lot area and bounda- ry lines no part thereof within the limits of the street shall be included. 38. Lot, corner - A lot at the junction of and fronting on two or more intersecting streets both of which are twenty (20) feet or more in width. 39. Lot, interior - A lot other than a corner lot. 40. Lot Lines - The lines bounding a lot as defined herein. 41. Lot of Record A lot which is a part of a subdivision, the map of which has been recorded in the office of the County Recorder of Pulaski County. 42. Lot, through - An interior lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets. 43. Lot Width - The distance parallel to the front of a building erected or to be erected, measured between side lot lines at the building line. 44. Motel - A permanent building or group of buildings con- taining rooms used, rented or hired out for the more or less temporary occupancy of overnight guests. 45. Parking Area, Public - An open area, other than a street, used for the temporary parking or more than four automobiles and available for public use, whether free, for compensation or as an accomodation for clients or customers. 46. Parking Space (off - street), One - A space on private land, accessible from a street or alley, not less than nine (9) feet wide and twenty (20) feet long exclusive of passageways. 47. Place or Court - An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a building or group of buildings and bounded on three or more sides by such building or buildings. 48. Professional Office - The office of a person engaged in any occupation, vocation or calling, not purely com- mercial, mechanical or agricultural in which a professed knowledge or skill in some department of science or learn- ing is used by its practical application to the affairs of others, either advising or guiding them in serving their interest or welfare through the practice of an act founded thereon. 49. Sign - Any advertisement, announcement, direction or communication produced in whole or in part by the con- struction, erection, affixing or placing of a structure on any land or on any other structure, or produced by painting on or posting or placing any printed, lettered, pictured, figured or colored material on any building, structure, or surface. Signs placed or erected by govern- mental agencies or non - profit civic associations for a public purpose in the public interest shall not be in- cluded herein, nor shall this include signs which are a part of the architectural design of a building. 50. Stable, Private - A stable with capacity for not more than two horses, provided, however, that the capacity of ♦ � s a private stable may be increased if the premises whereon such stable is located contains an area of not less than 2500 square feet for each horse accommodated. 51. Stable, Public - A stable with a capacity for more than two horses. 52. Story - That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there be no floor above it, then the space between such floor and the ceiling next above it. 53. Story, Half - A story under a gable, hip or gambrel roof, the wall plates of which on at least two (2) opposite exterior walls are not more than two (2) feet above the floor of such story. 54. Street - A thoroughfare which affords principal means of access to abutting property. 55. Structure - Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires more or less permanent location on the ground or attached to something having a permanent location on the ground. 56. Structural Alterations - Any change in either the sup- porting members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders, or in the roof and exterior galls. 57. Tourist Home - A building in which more than one but not more than five guest rooms are used to provide or offer overnight accommodations for transient guests for compen- sation. 58. Trade or Business School - Secretarial school or college, or business school or college, when not public and not owned or conducted by or under the sponsorship of a religious or charitable organization; school conducted as commercial enterprise for teaching instrumental music, dancing, barber- ing or hairdressing or for teaching industrial skills in which machinery is employed as a means of instruction. This definition shall not be deemed to include educational insti- �,y f l tution as defined in this Section. 59. Use, Nonconforming - An existing use of land or build- ing which was legal prior to the effective date hereof, but which fails to comply with the regulations set forth in this ordinance applicable to the district in which such use is located. 60. Yard - A space on the same lot with a main building, open, unoccupied and unobstructed by buildings or structures from the ground to the sky, except as otherwise provided in this ordinance. 61. Yard, Front - A yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth of which shall be the least distance be- tween the front lot line and the nearest point of the main building or of any open, unenclosed porch or paved terrace. 62. Yard, Rear - A yard extending across the full width of the lot between the rearmost main building and the rear lot line, the depth of which shall be the least distance be- tween the rear lot line and the rear of such main building. 63. Yard, Side - A yard between the main building and the side lot line, extending from the front yard or front lot line where no front yard is required, to the rear yard, the width of which shall be the least distance between the side lot line and the nearest point of the main building. SECTION 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed, and this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. PASSED: May 19, 1953 ATTES : - e�.5- e-:.�� APPROVED: . I�cVl City Clerk Ma