HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 94 (Zoning Code)CHARTER ORDINANCE No.
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING AI4T.D ESTABLISHING THE LOCATION OF TRADES,
INDUSTRIES AND BUILDINGS, AND THE, LOCATIONS OF BUILDINGS
DESIGNED FOR SPECIFIC USES, AND ESTABLISHING TEE BOUNDARIES
FOR SAID PURPOSES, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE, VIOLATION
OF ITS 1ROVISIONS.
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL do ordain as follows:-
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Section 1. For the purpose of this ordinance certain
terms herein used are herewith defined; all words used in the
present tense shall include the future; all words in the
singular number shall include the plural number; the word "lot"
includes "plot", and the word "building" includes "structure".
Accessory -- The word "accessory" means a subordinate
building or portion of a main building whose use is incidental
to that of the main building.
Apartment -- The word "apartment" means a room or a suite
of two or more rooms in a tenement house, occupied or suitable
for occupation as a residence for one family doing its own
cooking on the premises. One person may be construed to be a
family.
Building -- The word "building" means a structure for the
support, shelter.or inclosure of Persons, animals or chattels,
and when separated by dividion walls of masonry from the ground
up, and without openings, then each portion of such builcling
shall be deemed a separate building.
Business or Commerce -- The words "business" and "commerce"
mean the occupation or employment of buying, selling, bartering
and exchanging goods, wares and merchandise or other personal
property or any interests therein for profit or livelihood, and
also the ownership or management of office buildings, offices and
recreational or amusement enterprises.
District -- The word "district" means an entire city block,
any part thereof or two or more contiguous bl"ocks.
Dwelling -- The word "dwelling" means any house or building
or portion thereof which is occupied in whole or in part, as the
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