The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-14

nishing OF adequate service by such
public health utilities or municipal de-
partments or commissions or for the
public health or safety or general vel
fare,
~. Establishes Grade; The elevation
OF the sidewalk grade as fixed by the
| Township
~. Family: A family is one or two
persons or parents with their direct
descendants and adopted children land
including the domestic employees
thereof. together with not more than
five persons not so related, living to-
gether in room or rooms comprIs sing
single Housekeeping unit. Every ad-
ditional group OF five or less persons
living IN such housekeeping unit shall
he considered a separate family for the
purposes OF this Ordinance
IS. First Floor: The floor OF a build
ing approximately al or first above the
mean level OF the ground AT the front OF
the building
10 Garage. Private: A private ga
rage is space or structure for the
storage OF motor vehicles. having no
public shop or service in connection
herewith. and occupying ground
floor area Of not 10 exceed 600 square
feet, or a larger area IL for the pri-
vate use solely OF the owner or occu-
pant Of the principal building on a lot.
or Of his family or domestic employees.
II. Garage. Community: A commun-
ity garage is space or structure or
series of structures for the storage OF
motor vehicles, having no public shop
or service IN connection herewith, and
separated into compartments or sec
tons with separate Vehicular entranc-
cs. for the use OF two or more owners
81 -. iii.
1S. Garage, Public or Commercial:
space or structure, other than a
private or community garage, for the
storage, care, repair, refinishing, or
servicing OF motor vehicles, except that
a structure or room used solely for
the display and sale of such vehicles.
IN which they are not operated under
with which there is no storage, care,
repair, refinishing or servcing of We
hicIcs other than those displayed for
sale shall not be considered a garage
for the purposes of this Ordinance.
Section 19-Stables
4 stable" is a space or structure
for the keeping of draft or riding ami
mails. and the equipment and vehicles
incidental 20 their use. A public sta
bic" is a stable where such animals
are boarded, or kept for hire or sale, or
for other commercial uses. A "priva:e
4
mails are kept for private use and are
not available for hire or for commercial
uses.
20. Hotel: A hotel is multiple
dwelling in which persons are lodged
for hire and IN which there are more
than twenty sleeping rooms, a public
dining room for the accommodation of
- least twenty guests, and general
kitchen.
-. Lodging House: A building or
part thereof. other than a hotel, where
lodgings are provided for hire more Or
less transently. without provisions for
meals.
-. Lot: piece or parcel OF land
occupied or intended TO be occupied by
building and its accessory buildings
or by any other activity permitted
herein. and including the open spaces
required under this Ordinance.
%. Lot or Record A lot the dimen-
siOns of which are shown on docU-
ment or map on file with the Register
Of Deeds or in common use by county
or city officers, and which actually eN-
lists as shown, or any part of such lot
held in ownership OF record separate
from the remainder thereof
The term lot as used here does
not necessarily refer 10 a lot shown
on subdivision plat or held in a
single ownership and described in a
necessary for the conduct of given
activity IN accordance with the yard
and COur, requirements of the Zon-
ing Ordinance. Thus. group of
five or SIX building lots as shown on
the Township map might be aC-
Oui~Cd . $ the site for an apartment
house. with allowance for the build
ing ,tseN and the yards required
about Il, and when so used or intend
Cd 20 be so used, II is a single lot
IN the meaning Of he ZOning Ordi-
nance. Or a man owning large lot
might build two or three houses on
u 70 rent, but they would have 20
he so placed that each had about
u me fun yards required In this
Ordinance, independent Of the yards
belonging 70 any Of the others. and
each parcel OF land containing
house and its required yards would
be considered a lot, whether in sep
arate ownership or not.
Again. a man owning SO feet Of
frontage in a Residence A District
might build a sinEle-family two-story
house 90 feet wide in the middle Of II.
He could sell strips from the side
Of his lot without changing is status
under tho coming law 50 long as =
strip five feet wide D'he required
side yardb remaining on each side OF
his house. But anything less than
the 40 feet would not he considered
a lot, and Il he should sell off "a
feet on ono side OF his house 10 give
a neighbor a larger building site,
that neighbor could use only the out
or feet in figurinE the size of his
lot when applying for building per-
init. This is covered In Subdivision A
Of Section Xl OF TINS Ordininccl. In