§ 3303.03 — Letter C

3303.03 - Letter C.

"Cabaret" means a nightclub, or restaurant where performers dance, sing, or engage in plays for patrons. "Caliper" means tree trunk diameter measured four and one-half feet from the ground on trees more than 12 inches in diameter. On trees more than four inches and up to 12 inches in diameter, caliper is measure 12 inches from the ground. On trees four inches or less in diameter, caliper is measured six inches from the ground. Canopy. See "Awning." "Call center" means a centralized office used for the purpose of receiving and transmitting a large volume of requests by telephone communications. Such centers may operate with extended hours and typically have a higher density of employees per square foot than traditional office uses "Carry-out" means a retail business operation, established on an individual tract of land or lot; occupying less than 10,000 square feet of gross floor area, engaged in the sale of food and beverages which are furnished to customers primarily for consumption or use off the premises. "Cemetery" means any non-publicly owned parcel of land designed, intended to be used, or used for the burial of deceased persons or animals. For purposes of this code, a burial lot and columbarium shall be included in the definition of cemetery. "Change of use" means any alteration in the primary use of a lot for zoning purposes which may entail the need for additional parking or loading facilities. Changeable Copy. "Automatic changeable copy" means an electrically (or any other power) activated sign whose variable content or message capability can be electronically programmed. "Manual changeable copy" means a sign, or portion of a sign on which copy is changed manually in the field, e.g., a reader board with changeable letters. "Chapter" when used without clarification means a chapter of the Columbus Zoning Code. "Child day care" means administering to the needs of infants, toddlers, pre-school children, and school children outside of school hours by persons other than their parents or guardians, custodians, or relatives by blood, marriage, or adoption for any part of the 24 hour day in a place or residence other than a child's own home. "Child day care center" means any place in which child day care is provided for seven or more infants, preschool children, or school-age children outside of school hours in average daily attendance, other than the children of the owner or operator of the center, with or without compensation, as all such minors are defined by Ohio Revised Code 5104.01. "Child day care type B home" means the permanent residence of the owner-operator in which child day care is provided for no more than six children at one time and in which no more than three children may be under two years of age at one time. Amplifications of Revised Code 5104.01 (E) shall apply. "Circulation area" means all of the area within a parking lot exclusive of driveways or off-street parking or loading spaces, which is provided for vehicular maneuvering, pedestrian movement or other accessory or incidental purposes. "Civic, social, religious, or other institutional organizations, non-assembly areas" means uses which are secondary to the purpose of the organization and are considered as providing services to members and other individuals. These areas include, but are not limited to, spaces for bookstores, cafeteria, child day care, educational classes, social services, and limited retail sales of organization-related materials. "Clearance" in the context of the Graphics Code means the smallest vertical distance between the grade of the adjacent street; curb or land and the lowest point of any sign, including framework and embellishments, extending over that grade. "Commercial swimming pool" means any in-ground, on-ground, or above-ground permanently affixed swimming pool, wading pool, lake or pond filled or capable of being filled with water to a depth greater than 12 inches at any point therein and operated on a commercial basis through the charge of a per use, admission, or membership fee. A commercial swimming pool as defined here may be a primary use or accessory structure. Commercial Use. See "Use, institutional, commercial or manufacturing." "Commercial vehicle" means any vehicle used or designed to be used for business or commercial purposes and includes, but is not necessarily limited to: a bus, cement truck, commercial tree-trimming equipment, construction equipment; dump truck, garbage truck, panel truck, semi-tractor, semi-trailer, stake bed truck, step van, tank truck, tar truck, or other commercial type vehicle licensed by the Ohio State Bureau of Motor Vehicles as a commercial vehicle or truck. Community Residential Treatment Center. See "Halfway house." "Compost facility" means a structure or premises designed, intended to be used, or used for the processing, creation, and open air storage of compost for subsequent sale. Compost means the mixture of decaying organic ingredients and conditioners for use as fertilizer. A location containing pre-packaged compost or open air compost for use exclusively on the same parcel shall not be considered a compost facility for purposes of a Special Permit. Conditional means safeguards established by the development commission or board of zoning adjustment. Copy. See "Sign copy." "Copy area" means the area of the smallest basic geometric figure, such as a parallelogram, circle, triangle, or combination thereof, which can be described so as to enclose the actual copy of a sign. "Corner lot" means a lot at the intersection of and abutting on two streets not less than 30 feet in width. "Court" means an open, uncovered, unoccupied space other than a required yard or area containing off-street parking spaces, unobstructed from the ground to the sky, and located on the same lot with a building or buildings, and either surrounded by the walls of the building or enclosed on two or more sides by such walls. "Court-type development" means a residential type development in which the area of the court exclusive of all required yards and off-street parking spaces shall be not less than one-half of the gross ground floor area of the buildings the court is intended to serve, and the width or diameter of the court area shall be not less than the average height of the building or buildings it is intended to serve. "Crematory" means a structure designed, intended to be used, or used for the cremation of human or animal remains.

(Ord. 2837-96 § 2 (part); Ord. 1425-01 § 3 (part); Ord. 0546 § 3 (part); Ord. 0230-04 § 3: Ord. 0764-2005 § 1 (part); Ord. No. 1537-2009, § 1, 5-3-2010; Ord. No. 0791-2011, § 1(Att. 1), 7-18-2011; Ord. No. 0170-2014, § 1, 7-28-2014; Ord. No. 1200-2017, § 2, 6-12-2017; Ord. No. 2019-2021, § 1, 7-26-2021)