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KETCHIKAN GATEWAY BOROUGH CODE 18.05.070are permitted uses and are not, in the determination of the planning commission, detrimental to surroundingproperties. Cottage industries are intended to provide economic support for households located in the outlyingportions of the borough not served by the roaded system. Cottage industries are subordinate to the principalresidential use of property and, in general, are a more intensive use of property than a home occupation and aless intense use of property than permitted in commercial and industrial zones. Restrictions to protect surroundingproperties are determined by the planning commission on a case-by-case basis according to therequirements of Chapter 18.85 KGBC.“Coverage” means that percentage of the total lot area covered by principal and accessory buildings.“Day care, commercial” means a facility licensed by the state providing care for hire of five (5) or more childrenwho are unrelated to the caregiver (“relative” means an individual who is related to another by marriage,blood relationship, or court decree; “relative” includes a parent, child, grandparent, great grandparent, brother,sister, stepparent, stepsister, stepbrother, aunt, uncle, great-aunt, great-uncle or step-grandparent), primarilyduring the daytime hours but who do not stay overnight; may include instruction.Day Care for Hire, Residential. Any home regularly used or maintained to provide care for hire of four (4) orfewer children (up to age twelve (12)), not counting any children who are related to the caregiver (“relative”means an individual who is related to another by marriage, blood relationship, or court decree; “relative”includes a parent, child, grandparent, great grandparent, brother, sister, stepparent, stepsister, stepbrother,aunt, uncle, great-aunt, great-uncle or step-grandparent) shall meet all requirements for home occupations.This definition does not apply to babysitting or occasional day care for hire that is less than twenty (20) daysin a three (3) month period.“Decibel (dB)” means a unit for measuring the volume of a sound equal to twenty (20) times the logarithm tothe base ten (10) of the ratio of the pressure of the sound measured to the reference pressure, which is twenty(20) micropascals (twenty (20) micronewtons per square meter).“Design standards” means a set of regulatory guides addressing characteristics such as materials, quality, generalappearance, architectural motif, historical character, color schemes and the like which are applied to astructure constructed on a parcel or parcels of real property to which design standards apply.“Dwelling” means a building or any portion thereof designed or used exclusively for residential occupancyincluding one (1) family, two (2) family and multiple-family dwellings, but not including any other buildingwherein human beings may be housed.“Dwelling, multiple-family” means any building located on a single lot and containing three (3) or more dwellingunits.“Dwelling, one (1) family” means any detached building containing only one (1) dwelling unit.“Dwelling, townhouse” means a building designed exclusively for occupancy by one (1) family and containingone (1) dwelling unit, occupying space from the ground to the roof and not lying vertically under or over adjacentunits, and attached to a series of two (2) or more, but not exceeding seven (7), additional similar dwellingunits, each of which is located on a separate lot, and each of which shares a common wall, located on a sidelot line, with another similar dwelling unit.“Dwelling, triplex” means a building containing three (3) individual dwellings. Detached accessory dwellingunits are not included in this definition. Triplex dwellings shall be either in a side-by-side or in an over-under(stacked) configuration. Side-by-side dwelling units shall share a common wall or be connected by a commonroof. The shared walls or roof shall not be those of a breezeway, or other accessory structure, but may includea carport or garage. Each dwelling unit must have direct access to the outside or to a common wall. Each dwellingunit is intended to be occupied by one (1) family.18-7
18.05.070 GENERAL PROVISIONS“Dwelling, twinhouse” means a building, located on a separate lot, designated exclusively for occupancy byone (1) family and containing one (1) dwelling unit, which is attached by a common wall located on a side lotline to a similar building on an adjacent lot containing one (1) dwelling unit.“Dwelling, two (2) family” means any building located on a single lot and containing only two (2) dwellingunits. Two (2) family dwelling units (duplexes) shall be either in a side-by-side or in an over-under (stacked)configuration. Side-by-side dwelling units shall share a common wall or be connected by a common roof. Theshared walls or roof shall not be those of a breezeway, or other accessory structure, but may include a carportor garage.“Dwelling unit” means one (1) or more rooms in a building designed as a unit for occupancy by one (1) familyfor living or sleeping purposes and having a kitchen or kitchenette.“End lot” means a lot in a townhouse development which has a common wall located on only one (1) of itstwo (2) side lot lines.“Essential service” means the erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by public utilities or municipaldepartments or commissions of underground or overhead gas, electrical, steam or water transmission or distributionsystems, collection, communication, supply or disposal systems, including poles, wires, mains, drains,sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar equipment andaccessories in connection therewith, but not including buildings, reasonably necessary for the furnishing ofadequate service of such public utilities or borough departments or commissions or for the public health orsafety or general welfare.“Family” means any number of individuals living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling unit.“Fence height” means the vertical distance between the ground directly under the fence and the highest pointof the fence.“Flood management area” means those areas designated and depicted as “special flood hazard areas” and“other flood areas” on the official flood insurance rate map (FIRM) of the city of Ketchikan, Alaska, datedApril 16, 1990, prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which flood insurance rate map,and the flood insurance study, are on file in the office of the borough clerk as document No. 90-14 and in theborough department of planning and community development, 1900 First Avenue, Ketchikan, Alaska 99901,and are available for public inspection and copying and are incorporated herein by reference thereto.“Floodway” means the channel of watercourse and those portions of adjoining floodplains which are reasonablyrequired to carry and discharge the main body of water within the flood management area, both withinthe city of Ketchikan and other areas of the borough.“Floor area” means the total of each floor of a building within the surrounding outer walls but excluding ventshafts, courts, stairways and elevators.“Floor, ground” means the floor of a building at or nearest the adjacent street, and which is accessible directlyfrom a front yard. On commercially zoned properties with multiple front yards on sloping sites with streetentrances at more than one (1) level, each floor accessible at street level shall be considered a ground floor.“Front building line” means a line parallel to the front lot line of the lot on which a building is located, that isdrawn through the point or vertical face of the building at grade level which is located nearest to the front lotline.“Frontage” means the lot width measured along the property line adjacent to the street right-of-way.“Fuel storage and distribution facility” means an area where flammable or combustible liquids are received bytank vessel, pipeline, tank car, or tank vehicle and are stored or blended in bulk for the purpose of distributingsuch liquids by tank vessel, pipeline, tank car, tank vehicle, portable tank, or container.18-8
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