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SECTION II. Definitions
(August 24, 1982. Amended May 3, 1986; August 5, 1989; May 4, 1996)
Agricultural Use: Any use of land for the purpose of raising agricultural products, livestock, poultry or dairy products, including necessary farm structures, vehicles and equipment. This does not include kennels, commercial stables, commercial greenhouses or slaughterhouses.
Building: A roofed or walled structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy.
Camp. Summer: A land use, in operation only between Memorial Day and Labor Day, which for campers and staff provides: organized recreational activities, common kitchen and dining facilities, and sleeping quarters in dormitories or separate cabins. One single-family dwelling may be provided for the purpose of administration or owners’ residence.
Customary Home and Professional Occupations: Resident occupants working at an occupation involving use of space in the home and carried forth in the home, including but not limited to accountant, architect, artisan, artist, bookkeeper, carpenter, caterer, dentist, doctor, dress-maker, electrician, home-cooking, house painter, lawyer, plumber, potter, photographer, the giving of private music and dance lessons, a one-chair beauty parlor, real estate agent, telephone, computer-related, and mailing services. Customary home occupation does not include gift shop, antique shop or art gallery or similar retail establishments.
Dwelling Unit: One or more rooms constituting a separate, independent housekeeping unit establishment with cooking, living, sanitary and sleeping facilities for the use of no more than one family.
Dwelling, Single Family: A detached residential building designed for or occupied by one (1) family only, but not including mobile homes and trailers whether placed on foundations or not.
Dwelling. Multi-Family: A residential building containing two (2) or more dwelling units.
Family: An individual or any number of individuals related by blood, marriage or other legal arrangement, such as adoption, guardianship, foster care, or up to six (6) unrelated individuals living in a single dwelling unit.
Frontage: The boundary of a lot which lies along a road.
Lot: An area of land in one ownership with definite boundaries, used or available for use as the site of one or more buildings.
Municipal Use: Any Town of Monterey use of land in accordance with the general laws governing municipal powers and functions including participation in regional uses.
Personal Watercraft: Personal Watercraft is defined as a small vessel which uses an inboard motor powering a waterjet pump as its primary source of motive power and which is designed to be operated by persons sitting, standing or kneeling on the vessel. The term includes but is not limited to a jet-ski, wet bike or surf-jet, so-called.
Repair: Any maintenance which affects structure, egress, fire protection systems, fire ratings, energy conservation provisions, plumbing, sanitary, gas, electrical or other utilities.
Repair, ordinary: Any maintenance which does not affect structure, egress, fire protection systems, fire ratings, energy conservation provisions, plumbing, sanitary, gas, electrical or other utilities.
Resident Occupant: Person listed by a Monterey street and house number.
Road: (a) A public way or way which the Clerk of the Town certifies is maintained and used as a public way, or ((b)) a way shown on a plan theretofore approved and endorsed in accordance with the Subdivision Control Law, or (c) a way in existence when the Subdivision Control Law became effective (January 27, 1966) in the town in which the land lies, having, in the opinion of the Planning Board, sufficient width, suitable grades and adequate construction to provide for the needs of vehicular traffic in relation to the proposed use of the land abutting hereon or served thereby, and for the installation of municipal services to serve such land and the buildings erected or to be erected thereon.
Roadline: The right-of-way-line of a road as established by public authority (stone walls, line trees, deeds, surveys, other of official documents, etc.), or as shown on a plan approved or endorsed by the Planning Board under the Subdivision Control Law, or if none of the above apply, a line parallel to the center line of traveled way and 25 feet therefrom.
Setback: The area of the lot extending inward from a lot line (or, in the case of front setback, the road line), for the distance specified in the zoning regulations in which no buildings or structures may be placed.
Setback. Rear: An area extending inward from the rear lot line between the side lot lines.
Setback. Side: An area extending along a side lot line from the front line to the rear line.
Structure: Any construction, erection, assemblage or other combination of materials upon the land with or without pilings, footings or a foundation for attachment to the land, including but not limited to swimming pools, recreational courts, decks, platforms including tent platforms, piers, free-standing antennae and satellite dishes. For the purpose of this by-law, fences are not considered structures.
Traveled Way: Portion of a road which is used and maintained for vehicular traffic.
Wireless Communications Facility: Any and all materials, equipment, storage structures, towers and antennas, other than customer premises equipment, used by a telecommunications carrier to provide telecommunications services.
Monterey Zoning Bylaws 2006 Edition. Not an official copy. Please contact the Town Clerk’s office for an official copy.
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