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<br />Chapter 2: DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF CONSTRUCTION <br /> <br />Sec. 201. DEFINITIONS. <br /> <br />For the purposes of this chapter, the following words, terms and phrases shall have <br />the meanings herein set out. Words, terms and phrases not covered under this <br />chapter are made reference to in "A Glossary of Zoning, Development, and Planning <br />Terms', edited by Michael Davidson and Fay Dolnick, December 1999. <br /> <br />"Accessory Structure" shall mean a separate, subordinate building or structure devoted to an <br />accessory use on the same plot with a building, which is occupied by, or devoted to a <br />principal use. <br /> <br />"Accessory building" A secondary residence, garage, or other building or structure on a lot <br />or parcel subordinate to and not forming an integral part of the main or principal <br />building but pertaining to the use of the main building. An accessory building may <br />include servant's quarters unless prohibited by existing deed restrictions. Also see <br />Guesthouse. <br /> <br />"Accessory Use" shall mean a use that is subordinate to and serves a principal use; is <br />subordinate in area, extent and purpose to the principal use; and in located on the <br />same lot or lots under same ownership and in the same land use district as the <br />principal use. <br /> <br />"Addition (to an existing building)" shall mean any walled and roofed expansion to the <br />perimeter of a building in which the addition is connected by a common load-bearing <br />wall other than a firewall. Any walled and roofed addition, which is connected by a <br />firewall or is separated by independent perimeter load-bearing walls, shall constitute <br />new construction. <br /> <br />"Adult Use" shall mean any place in which a principal use is the exchange--for <br />consideration in any form, monetary or otherwise, for profit or not-for-profit--of <br />materials or exhibitions, including but not limited to, books, magazines, photographs, <br />performances, videotapes, electronic media, or movies, which have as their dominant <br />theme matters depicting, descnbing, demonstrating or relating to completely or to <br />opaquely covered human genitals or pubic regions, buttocks, or female breasts below <br />a point immediately above the top of the areola, or human male genitals in a <br />discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered, or which have as <br />their dominant theme matters depicting, describing, demonstrating or relating to <br /> <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach-Land Development Regulations <br />Adopted December 10, 2002 <br /> <br />CHAPTER 2 - Definitions & Rules of Construction 200- I <br />