§ 18-121. Definition of terms.

Whenever used in this article, the following terms shall mean and include:

Accessory use means a use incidental to, and on the same lot and secondary to a principal use.

Automobile wrecking yard (see also junkyard) means a site at which the dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles or trailers, or the storage, sale, or dumping of dismantled or wrecked vehicles or their parts takes place.

City means [the] municipal corporation or a political government subdivision or entity authorized to administer and enforce the provisions of this article, as adopted or amended.

Code compliance officer means an authorized employee of the city whose duty it is to assure code compliance.

Commercial district means a portion of the territory of the city, exclusive of streets and other public ways, within which certain uses of land, premises. (CM) allowable uses: Vehicles sales, rental, farm tractor or implement sales, construction equipment sales, storage yards, but not automobile wrecking yards, service or repairs.

Commercial truck means a motor vehicle with three or more axles.

Buffer area (see also screening) means a landscaped area intended to separate and partially obstruct the view of two adjacent land uses or properties from one another.

Development means any of the following activities: the construction, reconstruction, clearing, filling, excavating, grading, paving, dredging, mining, drilling or otherwise significantly disturbing the soil of a site, impervious surface or water management system, subdividing the land, and any use or extension of the use.

Easement means the right of a person, government agency or public utility company to use public or private land owned by another for a specific purpose.

Frontage means the length of any one property line of a site, which property line abuts a legally accessible street right-of-way. For the purposes of determining yard requirements on corner lots, all sides of a lot adjacent to streets shall be considered frontage, and yards shall be provided as indicated under yards in this section.

Impervious surface means any material that substantially reduces or prevents the infiltration of stormwater into previously undeveloped land. Impervious surface shall include graveled driveways and parking areas as well as roofs and other similar structures.

Junkyard (see also automobile wrecking yard) means a parcel of land on which waste material or inoperative vehicles and other machinery are collected, stored, salvaged, or sold.

License or valid license is a license that was properly issued for a period of time that has not yet expired, that has not been revoked, was not obtained by providing wrong/false information in the application and that in being used exclusively for the classification for which it was issued.

Lot, lot area, lot, corner, lot coverage, lot depth, lot frontage, lot line, (front, rear and side), lot width, (see land development regulation, definitions section).

Motor vehicle means any automobile, truck, motor scooter, or other self-propelled vehicle not operated on tracks or from trolleys.

Office trailer means a wheeled vehicle that is pulled by a motor vehicle, which has been previously fabricated outside of the territorial limits of the city and brought upon for the purposes of office space or storage. The trailer, so-called, shall not have live-in privileges and shall be approved for the use intended by the corresponding agency of the state.

Person means and includes any natural person, individual, public or private corporation, firm, association, joint venture, partnership, municipality, governmental agency, political subdivision, public officer or any other entity whatsoever, or any combination of such, jointly or severally, company or organization of any kind.

Permit means an official document or certificate issued by the pertinent city department authorizing performance of a specified activity.

Power line easement bound on the North by the Southerly Right-of-Way line of NW 103 ^rd Street, bound on the West by the Easterly Right-of-Way line of NW 80 ^th Avenue, bound on the South by the Northerly Right-of-Way line of NW 98 ^th Street and bound on the East by the Easterly line of the Florida Power & Light Easement more particularly described as follows: Those portions of the West 165.00 feet of tracts 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Florida Fruit Lands Company Subdivision No. 1 in Section 3, Township 52 South, Range 40 East, according to the Plat thereof as recorded in plat book 2 at page 17 of the public records of Miami-Dade County, Fl., lying South of the Southerly Right-of-way line of N.W. 103 ^rd St.

Right-of-way means a strip of land dedicated by the subdivider, or deeded by the owner, or otherwise transferred for public use for road or highway use.

Sanitary nuisance means the commission of any action, by a person, or the keeping, maintaining, propagation, existence or permission of anything, by a person, by which the health or life of an individual or the health or life of individuals, may be threatened or impaired or by which or through which, directly or indirectly, disease may be caused.

Site plan means a document or group of documents, in blue or black print containing sketches, text, drawings, maps, photographs, and other material intended to present and explain certain elements of proposed development, including physical design, siting of buildings and structures, interior vehicular and pedestrian access, the provision of improvements, and the interrelationship of these elements.

Zoning, code compliance and licensing officials means designated authorities, charged with the administration and enforcement of the zoning, code compliance and local business tax receipt departments.

(Ord. No. 2001-09, 6-19-01; Ord. No. 2001-21, § 1, 12-18-01; Ord. No. 2008-06, § 3, 9-16-08)