The Washington herald., 1920-08-08
.ZONING BOARD
RULESDEFINED
Vocabulary Made Clear to
District People
Interested.
TERMS ARE REVAMPED
Real Estate Words Given
Meanings Not Used by
Public.
TERMS ARE REVAMPED

finipg certain terms. The Zoning
Commission has just made public
the following definitions:
Words used in the present tense
include the future; words in the
singular number include the plural
number; the word ''lot" includes the
word plot" the word building"
includes the word STRUCTURE" the
word shall" is mandatory and not
directory. Any words not herein
defined shall be construed as defined
or construed in the building regula-
tions.
, Accessory building: A subordi-
nate building or portion OF main
building. located in and occupying
not more than 80 per cent of the
rear yard Of the main building,
whose use is incidental to that of
the main building. and which does
not exceed twelve feet in height.
Alley: A public highway desig-
mated as an alley in the records of
the Surveyor. d. c.
Alley Defined.
Alley line: The dividing line be-
tween an alley and private prop
erty.
Apartment house: A tenement.
Apartment: A household unit in a
tenement or apartment house, suit
able for occupancy for one or more
persons.
Area: (See Building Arca.D
Building: A structure having a
roof supported by columns or walls
for the shelter. support or inclosure
of persons, animals or chattels; and
when separated by division walls
from the ground up, and without
openings, each portion Of such
building shall be deemed a sepa-
rate building.
Building area: The maximum
horizontal projected area OF a
building and its accessories, ex-
Guiding open steps, terraces, and
cornices projecting not more than
thirty inches.
Building Line
Building line: A line beyond
which property owners or others
have no legal or vested right to ex-
tend a building, or any part there
of, without special permission and
approval of the proper authorities;
ordinarily a line of demarkation be-
tween public and private property,
| but also applied to a building re-
friction line, when recorded on the
plats of the Surveyors Office. Dis
trict of Columbia.
Corner lot: A parcel of land
| fronting on two or more streets at
, their junction, having a width not
greater than fifty feet and a depth
not greater than 100 feet measured
along the street lines, and occupied
| by not more than one building.
Yard Depth.
Depth OF rear yard: The mean
horizontal distance between the rear
line of the building and the center
line of the alley, where an alley ex-
lists, otherwise the rear lot line.
Depth of lot: The mean horizontal
. distance between the front and rear
lot lines measured along the longest
median.
District: Sections of the District
of Columbia for which the regula-
tions governing the height, the area
or the use of buildings and premises
are the same.
Inclosed court: An open unoccu-
pied space surrounded on all sides
by walls, or by walls and lot line
Garage Terms.
Garage: Any premises used for
housing of steam or motor driven
vehicles, or where such vehicles are
equipped fer operation, repaired, or
kept for hire or sale, not including
exhibition or show rooms for model
cars.
Height of building: In the 11O
feet, IS feet. and 55 feet, height dis
tricts, the height is the vertical dis
tance from the level of the curb op-
pOsite the middle of the front of the
building to the top of any inclosure
wal! or to the highest point of the
roof. For any building which COM
plies with the regulations of the 35
feet height district, the height is
the vertical distance from the
ground level at the middle of the
front of the building to the ceiling
CT the top story.
Height Defined.
Height of court or yard: The YER
tiCal distance from the lowest level
cf such court or yard to the highest
point of any bounding wall.
Hotel: Every place where food
and lodging are provided for
transient guests.
Interior lot: A lot other than a
corner lot.
Length of open court: The mean
horizontal distance between the
open and closed ends of the court:
Lot: The land occupied or to be
occupied by a building or buildings
and accessories, and including the
open spaces required under these
regulations. A lot may be the land
so recorded on the records of the
Surveyor, D. c., or lot may be the
land upon which a building or
buildings may be erected including
such open spaces as are required
by these regulations.
How Lots are Bounded.
Lot lines: The lines bounding a
lot as defined herein.
Nonconforming use: A building
or premise occupied by a use that
does not conform with the regula-
tions of the use district in which
it is situated.
Open court: An open unoccupied
space on the same lot with a build
ing, extending to and opening upon
a street, alley or yard.
, Parking: The space between tho
sidewalk and the building line.
Percentage of lot occupancy: That
proportion of such area of a lot as
lies within lot lines as defined here
in which is occupied by or which
may be occupied. under these regu-
lations, by buildings, but not in
GLIDING their accessories:
Garage Capacity.
Private garage: A garage with a