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9.1
Accessory building and use:
Subordinate building or a portion of the main building, the use of which is incidental
to that of the main building or land not used for a place of habitation or a living
room, kitchen, dining room, parlor, bedroom, or library. An accessory use is one which
is incidental to the main use of the premises. A swimming pool is an accessory use.
9.2
Adult businesses
9.2a
Adult theater:
Any place or establishment that as a substantial or significant portion of its business
features or provides for viewing on site (i) films, motion pictures, video or audio
cassettes, slides, or other visual representations or recordings that are distinguished
or characterized by an emphasis on the exposure, depiction, or description of specified
anatomical areas, or the conduct or simulation of specified sexual activities; or
(ii) live performances that are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on the
exposure, depiction, or description of specified anatomical areas or the conduct or
simulation of specified sexual activities. Adult theaters offering viewing of film,
photograph material or live performances to audiences smaller in size than five persons
per seating, are expressly prohibited.
9.2b
Adult cabarets:
Any place or establishment that has a substantial or significant portion of its business
features or provides any of the following:
(1)
Persons who appear semi-nude, or
(2)
Live performances that are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on the exposure,
depiction, or description of specified anatomical areas or the conduct or simulation
of specified sexual activities, or
(3)
Films, motion pictures, video or audio cassettes, slides, computer displays, or other
visual representations or recordings of any kind that are distinguished or characterized
by an emphasis on the exposure, depiction, or description of specified anatomical
areas, or the conduct or simulation of specified sexual activities, or,
9.2c
Adult store:
Any place or establishment which sells, offers for sale or rents, for any form of
consideration, any one or more of the following:
(1)
Books, magazines, periodicals, or other printed matter, or photographs, films, motion
pictures, video cassettes, slides or other visual representations or recordings, novelties
and devices, which have as their primary or dominant theme, matter depicting, illustrating,
describing or relating to specific sexual activities or specified anatomical areas;
or
(2)
Instruments, devices or paraphernalia, which are designed for use in connection with,
specified sexual activities.
9.2d
Specified anatomical areas:
(1)
Less than completely and opaquely covered:
a.
Human genitals or pubic region;
b.
Human buttocks
c.
Human female breasts below a point immediately above the top of the areola; and
(2)
Human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely
covered.
9.2e
Specified sexual activities:
(1)
Human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation, arousal or swelling;
(2)
Acts of human anilingus, bestiality, buggery, cunnilingus, coprophagy, coprophilia,
fellatio, flagellation, masochism, masturbation, necrophilia, pederasty, pedophilia,
sadism, sadomasochism, sapphism, sexual intercourse, sodomy, urolagnia or zooerasty;
(3)
Fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus
or female breast; and
(4)
Excretory functions as part of or in connection with any of the activities set forth
in subsections (1) through (3) of this subsection.
9.2f
Escort:
A person who, for compensation, agrees or offers to engage in any of the following
acts:
(1)
Privately to model lingerie with the intention of and for the purpose of providing
sexual stimulation or sexual gratification to the customer.
(2)
Privately to disrobe for another person with the intention of and for the purpose
of providing sexual stimulation or sexual gratification to the customer.
(3)
Agrees to come to a specified location for the purpose of disrobing and for the purpose
of providing sexual stimulation or sexual gratification to the customer.
(4)
To perform a massage for the purpose of providing sexual stimulation or sexual gratification
to the customer.
9.2g
Escort agency:
A person or business association who, whether on or off the licensed premises, furnishes,
offers to furnish, or advertises to furnish escorts, as defined herein, for compensation.
9.3
Agriculture:
A farm of ten acres or more for the production of crops and livestock including greenhouse
and nurseries for the raising of plants and sale of farm products raised on the premises
but shall not be construed to mean the commercial processing of farm products such
as slaughterhouses, canning plants, feed mills, etc.
9.3a
Architectural metal panel:
A metal panel of 26 gauge or heavier which is embossed or prefinished and which has
the appearance of masonry, stucco, or any approved design approved by the planning
department.
9.4
Board
means the board of adjustment established in part 7.
9.4a
Boat:
A vehicle for traveling in or on the water, not exceeding 32 feet in body length,
eight feet in width, or 12 feet in overall height from ground level. If the boat is
mounted on a trailer, height limit also includes the trailer.
9.5
Building:
Any structure designed or built or used for the support, enclosure, shelter or protection
of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind.
9.5a
Business complex:
A commercial development containing one or more tenants sharing common access, parking,
or other amenities. In such circumstances, where a commercial development shares common
access, parking, etc., the following guidelines shall be utilized to determine whether
a particular building, set of buildings, or parcel of land constitutes one or more
complexes:
(1)
Leasehold interest alone shall not allow a particular building, set of buildings,
or parcel to constitute an additional complex.
(2)
Each lot legally platted prior to October 31, 1984, shall constitute a separate complex.
(3)
Lots legally platted after October 31, 1984, shall not constitute separate complexes.
9.6
City council:
City council of Slidell.
9.7
Commission:
Planning and zoning commissions of Slidell.
9.7a
Community recreation:
Refers to recreational, social, or multipurpose uses typically associated with parks,
playfields, golf courses, or community recreation buildings.
9.7b
Cultural exhibits and library services:
Refers to museum-like preservation and exhibition of objects in one or more of the
arts and sciences, gallery exhibition of works of art, or library collection of books,
manuscripts, etc., for study and reading.
9.7c
Day care centers, preschools, nursery schools:
Refers to facilities authorized to provide supervisory or day care services licensed
for such activities by the State of Louisiana.
9.8
District:
A part of the city wherein regulations of this ordinance are uniform.
9.9
Dwelling:
A building used entirely for residential purposes and shall not be construed to include
trailers. A single-family dwelling is a building that contains only one living unit;
a two-family dwelling is a building that contains only two living units; and a multiple
dwelling is a building that contains more than two living units. Dwellings may include
accessory uses.
9.9a
Elementary and secondary schools:
Refers to public and private elementary and secondary schools having a general education
curriculum.
9.9b
Essential services:
Refers to public services which are necessary to support principal use type development
and involves only minor structures such as lines and poles, phone booths, and mailboxes,
which are necessary to support principal development.
9.10
Family:
An individual or two or more persons related by blood or marriage, or legal adoption
or a group of not more than four persons not all related, living together as a single
housekeeping unit in a dwelling unit.
9.11
General terms:
The word "person" includes a firm, association, organization, partnership, trust,
company, or corporation as well as individual. The present tense includes the future.
The singular includes the plural and the plural, the singular. The word "shall" is
mandatory, the word "may" is permissive. The words "used" or "occupied" include the
words "intend," "designed," or "arranged" to be used or occupied.
9.11a
Group home:
Refers to services provided by facilities certified or licensed by the state for the
personal care or supervisory care of five to 15 individuals not related by blood,
marriage or adoption. These facilities provide supervisory or personal care of individuals
who are mentally or physically handicapped requiring supervision in a noninstitutional
family home setting.
9.12
Home occupations:
As defined in part 2, section 2.2214 of the zoning ordinance.
9.12a.1.
Hospitals:
An institution providing primary health services and medical or surgical care to persons,
primarily inpatients, suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity and other
abnormal physical or mental conditions, and including as an integral part of the institution,
related facilities such as laboratories, outpatient facilities, professional offices
and training facilities.
9.12a
Kennel, commercial:
Any establishment within the city limits of Slidell which maintains more than 12 domestic
animals in any combination, and which is operated primarily for commercial boarding,
breed, buying, selling or rearing of animals. Animal hospitals operated by a licensed
veterinarian, pet stores and animal shelters operated by a public jurisdiction are
hereby declared exempt from this definition. Commercial kennels cannot be located
in a residential zone and must be located within the proper commercial zone as set
forth by current zoning laws of the City of Slidell.
9.12b
Kennel, private:
Any person(s) who maintains more than a total of six domestic animals over the age
of four months on a residential property within the city limits of Slidell; said animals
can be in any combinations.
9.13
Living unit:
The rooms occupied by a family. The living unit must include a kitchen.
9.13a
Lodge, fraternal, and civic service organizations:
Refers to meetings and activities primarily conducted for their members. Excluded
from this type are uses classified as group residential, group care, and transient
habitation (all types). Typical uses include meeting places for civic clubs, lodges,
or fraternal or veteran organizations.
9.14
Lot:
A plot, parcel or tract of land with fixed boundaries, adequate for occupancy by a
permitted use, together with such yards or open spaces within the lot lines as may
be required by the Slidell zoning ordinance, and fronting upon a public street. A
lot is intended as a unit for the transfer of ownership or for building development,
or both, including the development of one ownership with two or more buildings for
separate occupancy, except or provided for townhouses.
9.15
Lot corner:
A lot which abuts two or more streets at their intersection, or upon a curved street,
provided that the two sides of the lot intersect to form an interior angle of not
more than 135 degrees.
9.16
Lot depth:
The distance between front and rear lot lines. If these lines are not parallel, the
mean dimension shall be deemed to be the lot depth.
9.17
Lot, double frontage:
A lot which runs through a block from street to street and which has frontage on each
street.
9.18
Lot, interior:
A lot which is not a corner lot.
9.19
Lot line, front:
The front line of an interior lot is the line separating the lot from the street or
easement of principal access. The front lot line of a corner lot shall be the lot
line with the least frontage.
9.20
Lot line, rear:
The rear lot line is the boundary opposite and generally parallel to the front lot
line. The rear lot line of a triangular or irregularly shaped lot shall be for the
purpose of this ordinance a line not less than ten feet long, lying wholly within
the lot, more or less parallel to and the greatest distance from the front lot line.
9.21
Lot line side:
A side lot line is any lot boundary line not a front line or a rear lot line. A side
lot line separating a lot from a street line is an exterior side lot line. Any other
side lot line is an interior side lot line.
9.22
Lot width:
The width of the lot at the building setback line measured parallel to the street
right-of-way line, or measured at the street line if no front yard is required.
9.22a
Minor impact utilities:
Refers to public utilities which have a local impact on surrounding properties and
are necessary to provide essential services. Typical uses are electrical and gas distribution
substations, and radio, microwave, and telephone transmitters.
9.22b
Municipal government services:
Refers to those facilities operated by the City of Slidell.
9.23
Office buildings:
A building designed for or used as the offices of professional, commercial, industrial,
religious, public or semipublic persons or organizations.
9.24
Parking space:
One automobile parking space shall be an area not less than nine feet by 20 feet,
and the access to the parking space for a public street or alley shall be provided
in addition to the space necessary for parking, a total space of 400 square feet in
area per car when parking is on one side of an access driveway and 300 square feet
in area per car when parking is along both sides of an access driveway.
9.25
Planned district:
A planned district shows in detail the manner in which the land will be used by designating
the type and location of buildings, roadways, off-street parking, service areas, set
back requirements, landscaping and character of a development in conformance with
requirements of all other parish ordinances, minimum area, and specific districts
of the zoning ordinance.
9.26
Planning commission:
It shall act as a zoning commission at such time as this ordinance shall go into effect.
9.26a
Public safety services:
Refers to the providing of protection by a district or entity pursuant to fire, life,
and safety code sections together with the incidental storage and maintenance of necessary
vehicles. Typical uses include fire stations, police stations, ambulance services.
9.27
Recreation use:
An area offering recreational facilities to the public for boating, boat launching,
fishing, swimming, picnicking, camping, outdoor games, horseback riding, parks, playgrounds,
and may include community centers.
9.27a
Recreational vehicle:
A vehicular unit not exceeding 32 feet in overall length, eight feet in width, or
12 feet in overall height from ground level, primarily designated as a temporary living
quarters for recreational, camping or travel use; it either has its own motive power
or is designed to be mounted on or drawn by a motorized vehicle. Recreational vehicle
includes motor home, truck camper, travel trailer and camping trailer.
9.28
Region:
Governmental area covered by this ordinance.
9.28a
Religious assembly:
Refers to religious services involving public assembly such as customarily occur in
synagogues, temples, and churches.
9.28a(1)
Rooming house:
A building where lodging is provided for rent for more than one consecutive week.
9.28b
Senior service centers:
Facilities providing meals, education, entertainment and social services to the elderly.
9.28c
Setback:
The minimum distance away from a property line where buildings may be constructed,
a building line; usually a line parallel to the front property line.
9.29
Shelter for victims of domestic violence:
Refers to a State of Louisiana licensed residential facility, operated by a nonprofit
social service corporation, which serves as a temporary safe-house for victims of
domestic violence and provides shelter, meals, childcare, and counseling to such victims.
Such a facility may be no closer than 3½ miles to any similar facility, shall have
a residential character and appearance typical of other residential structures in
the area, and shall be located on a lot having no less than 15,000 square feet of
lot area and at least one hard-surfaced, off-street parking space for each four occupants.
9.29a
Shopping center:
A commercial development having at least 5,000 square feet and/or at least three tenants
sharing common access, parking and other amenities.
In such circumstances where a commercial development has at least 5,000 square feet
and/or three tenants sharing common access, parking, etc., the following guidelines
shall be utilized to determine whether a particular building, set of buildings, or
parcel of land constitutes one or more shopping centers:
(1)
Leasehold interest alone shall not allow a particular building or parcel to constitute
an additional shopping center.
(2)
Each lot legally platted prior to October 31, 1984, shall constitute a separate shopping
center.
(3)
Lots legally platted after October 31, 1984, shall not constitute separate shopping
centers.
9.30
Street line or right-of-way line:
The dividing line between a lot, its property line or lines, and a public right-of-way,
a public street, road, or highway, or a private street, road, or highway over which
two or more abutting owners have an easement or right-of-way.
9.30a
Structure:
Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires more or less permanent
or semipermanent location on the ground or the attachment to something having a permanent
location on the ground. This includes, but is not limited to, buildings, gasoline
pumps, advertising signs, billboards, fences, vending machines, radio and TV towers,
mobile homes and sheds. It excludes vehicles, sidewalks, streets, driveways, parking
areas and patios.
9.30b
Methadone centers or clinics:
A methadone center or clinic sponsored or operated by a nonprofit, charitable, or
for-profit entity or by a public agency and subject to licensure by the State of Louisiana
whose purpose is the dispensing of controlled substances in connection with or related
to the rehabilitation of drug abusers.
9.31
Trailer:
A vehicle without motive power, designed so that it can be drawn by a motor vehicle.
9.31a
Trailer, manufactured housing:
A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which is 12 body feet or more
in width and is 60 body feet or more in length, and which is built on a permanent
chassis, and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without permanent foundation,
when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air
conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein.
9.31b
Trailer park:
A parcel of land under single ownership which has been planned and improved for the
placement of mobile homes.
9.31c
Trailer-semi:
A freight trailer that when attached, is supported at its forward end by the fifth
wheel device of the truck trailer.
9.31d
Trailer, travel:
A vehicular, portable structure built on a chassis designed as a temporary dwelling
for travel, recreation, and vacation use with a body width not exceeding eight feet
and a body length not exceeding 32 feet.
9.31d
Transient habitation, lodging:
Lodging services involving the provision of room and/or board for a period of less
than a month. Typical uses include hotels, motels or transient boardinghouses.
9.32
Yard:
A required open space unoccupied and unobstructed by any structure or portion of a
structure from six inches above the general ground level of the graded lot upward;
provided, however, that fences and walls may be permitted in any yard subject to height
limitations as indicated herein.
9.33
Yard, front:
That part of a lot between the front lot line and the front(s) of the principal building
on the lot, and extending to both side lot lines. In case of through lots, unless
the prevailing front yard pattern on adjoining lots indicates otherwise, front yards
shall be provided on all frontages.
9.34
Yard, front depth:
Depth of required front yards shall be measured at right angles to a straight line
joining the foremost points of the side lot lines. The foremost points of the side
lot lines, in the case of rounded property corners at street intersections shall be
assumed to be the point at which the side and front lot lines would have met without
such rounding. Front and rear front yard lines shall be parallel.
9.35
Yard, rear:
That part of a lot between the rear lot line and the back(s) of the principal building
on the lot, and extended to both side lot lines.
9.35a
Yard, rear depth:
Depth of required rear yards shall be measured at right angles to a straight line
joining the rearmost points of the side lot lines. The forward rear yard line of a
required rear yard shall be parallel to the straight line so established.
9.36
Yard, side:
That part of a lot not surrounded by building and not in the front or rear yard.
9.37
Yard, side width:
Width of required side yards shall measure at right angles to a straight line joining
the ends of front and rear lot lines on the same side of the lot. This inner side
yard line of the required side yard shall be parallel to the straight line so established.
9.38
Mini-warehouse
or
mini-storage:
A building or group of buildings containing individual storage units rented or leased
to individuals for the storage of merchandise, commodities or private property.
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