Glasgow Definitions ordinance (§ 405.010)

For the purposes of these regulations, the following terms or words are defined as follows:

ACCESSORY USE: A use which is customarily incidental to the principal use, e.g., a garage for the storage of an automobile by the occupant.

DWELLING UNIT: A structure or portion thereof which provides complete housekeeping facilities for one (1) family.

1. A dwelling does not include a mobile home or a double-wide mobile home, but may include a modular home.

2. "Single-family dwelling" includes any home in which eight (8) or fewer unrelated mentally or physically handicapped persons reside, and may include two (2) additional persons acting as houseparents or guardians who need not be related to each other or to any of the mentally or physically handicapped persons residing in the home. In the case of any such residential home for mentally or physically handicapped persons, the City Planning and Zoning Commission may require that the exterior appearance of the home and property be in reasonable conformance with the general neighborhood standards. Further, the City Planning and Zoning Commission may establish reasonable standards regarding the density of such individual homes in any specific single-family dwelling neighborhood.

LOT OF RECORD: A lot which is a part of a subdivision recorded in the office of the County Recorder, or a lot, plot or parcel described by metes and bounds, the description of which had been so recorded before December 9, 1968.

MANUFACTURED HOME: Structure, transportable in one (1) or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight (8) body feet or more in width or forty (40) body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is three hundred twenty (320) or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein. This term includes any structure that meets all of the requirements of this definition except the size requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and complies with the standards established under Title 42 of the United States Code.

MOBILE HOME: A residential building constructed or assembled in a factory which is not certified pursuant to the Federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Code and which conforms to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards for mobile homes.