CH2 — DEFINITIONS—GENERAL RULES OF INTERPRETATION
Chapter 2: DEFINITIONS—GENERAL RULES OF INTERPRETATION • Effective Mar 5, 2025
Words used in this Resolution are used in their ordinary English usage. For the purpose of this
Resolution certain terms or words used herein shall be interpreted as follows:
a. The present tense includes the future tense, the singular number includes the plural, and the
plural number includes the singular.
b. The word "shall" is a mandatory requirement, the word "may" is a permissive requirement.
c. The words "used" or "occupied" include the words "intended, designed, or arranged to be used
or occupied."
d. The word "lot" includes the words "plot" or "parcel."
The following terms shall, whenever used in this Resolution, have the meaning herein indicated.
DEFINITIONS:
Accessory Use: A use incidental to, and on the same lot as, a principal use.
Adult Arcade: Any place to which the public is permitted or invited wherein coin-operated or token-
operated or electronically, electrically, or mechanically controlled still or motion picture machines,
projectors, or other image-producing devices are maintained to show images to five or fewer persons
per machine at any one time, and where the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized by
the depicting or describing of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
Adult Bookstore or Adult Video Store: A commercial establishment which, as one of its principal
business purposes, offers for sale or rental for any form of consideration any one or more of the
following;
a. Books, magazines, periodicals or other printed matter, or photographs, films, motion pictures,
video cassettes or video reproductions, slides, or other visual representations which depict or
describe specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas; or
b. Instruments, devices, paraphernalia, other than medical or contraceptive devices, which are
designed for use in connection with specified sexual activities.
Adult Cabaret: A nightclub, bar, restaurant, or similar commercial establishment, which regularly
features:
a. Persons who appear in a state of nudity; or
b. Live performances which are characterized by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or
by specified sexual activities; or, Films, motion pictures, videocassettes, slides, or other
photographic reproductions that are characterized by the depiction or description of specified
sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
Adult Motion Picture Theater: A commercial establishment where, for any form of consideration, films,
motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or similar photographic reproductions are regularly shown
which are characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified
anatomical areas.
Adult Theater: A theater, concert hall, auditorium, or similar commercial establishment which regularly
features persons who appear in a state of nudity or live performances which are characterized by the
exposure of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
Agriculture: The use of land for agricultural purposes, including farming, dairying pasturage, apiculture,
horticulture, floriculture, viticulture and animal and poultry husbandry. Agriculture does not include the
feeding of garbage to animals or the operation or maintenance of a commercial stockyard or feed-yard.
A use shall be classified as agricultural only if it is the principal or main use of the land.
Automotive Filling Station: A facility where gasoline or other fuels (including but not limited to diesel
fuel or electric charging) are sold to the public for automobiles, vans, and small trucks (but not for
tractor- trailer rigs or other large vehicles) and providing no vehicle servicing or repair. Automotive filling
is typically provided in combination on a site with a restaurant or other retail sales business.
Automobile Wrecking Yard: More than twenty-five (25) square feet of any land, used for the purpose of
wrecking, dismantling or storing, for private and/or commercial purposes, any discarded motor vehicle,
or associated parts.
Alley: A public thoroughfare which affords only a secondary means of access to a lot or abutting
property.
Banks, Financial Institutions: A financial institution that is open to the public and engaged in deposit
banking and that performs closely related functions such as making loans, investments and fiduciary
activities.
Basement: A story having part, but not more than one-half (½) of its height above the grade.
Bed and Breakfast: A house, or portion thereof, where short-term lodging rooms and meals are
provided. The operator of the inn shall live on the premises or in adjacent premises.
Building: Any structure designed or intended for the support, enclosure, shelter or protection of
persons, animals chattels or property.
Building, Accessory: A subordinate building detached from, but located on the same lot as the principal
building, the use of which is incidental and accessory to that of the main building or use, and which
otherwise satisfies the requirements for accessory structures.
Building Area (Gross Floor Area): The sum of the horizontal areas of the several floors of the building,
measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls.
Building, Height: The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed finished
grade at the front of the building to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the deck line of
mansard roofs, and one-half the distance between the eaves and the ridge for gable, hip and gambrel
roofs.
Building Setback Line: A line parallel with and measured from the front lot line, which defines the front
yard setback in which no building or structure may be located.
Building, Shed: A subordinate building two hundred (200) square feet or less detached from, but
located on the same lot as the principal building, the use of which is incidental and accessory to that of
the main building or use, and which otherwise satisfies the requirements for accessory structures.
Building, Principal: A building in which is conducted the main or principal use of the lot on which said
building is situated.
Cellar: See Basement
Day Care Facility: Wherein five or more children or adults are cared for, other than family members of
the owner or administrator of the facility, with or without compensation, and which does not provide
overnight lodging of cared for children or adults.
Density: A unit of measure expressing the number of dwelling units per acre which may be permitted.
Distributor’s Warehouse or Distribution Warehouse: A building where goods, materials, or equipment
are received and temporarily stored for redistribution to retailers, wholesalers or directly to consumers.
District (Zoning District): A section or sections of the territory of Boston Township for which the
regulations governing the use of building and premises or the height and area of buildings are uniform.
Drive-Through Facility (Drive-in/Drive-up): Any facility providing sales or services to customers in or on
vehicles or for patrons who remain in or on their motor vehicles.
Dwelling: Any building or structure which is wholly or partly used or intended to be used for living or
sleeping by one or more human occupants. A dwelling may be comprised of more than one dwelling
unit.
Dwelling Unit: Space, within a dwelling, comprising living, dining, sleeping room or rooms, storage
closets, as well as space and equipment for cooking, bathing, and toilet facilities, all used by one family
living as a single housekeeping unit.
Dwelling, Single Family: A building designed for or occupied by one (1) family, separated from other
dwelling units by open space.
Dwelling, Two Family: A building designed for or occupied exclusively by two (2) families, in two
separate dwelling units which may be either attached side by side or one above the other.
Dwelling, Three Family: A building designed for or occupied exclusively by three (3) families in three
separate dwelling units.
Dwelling, Multiple-Family: A building arranged, intended or designed to be occupied by four (4) or more
families, living independently of each other in four or more dwelling units, with varying arrangements of
entrances and party walls.
Dwelling Unit Floor Area: The sum of the gross horizontal areas of a building measured from the
exterior faces of exterior walls or from the center line of common walls separating two dwelling units.
The "Dwelling Unit Floor Area" shall not include unfinished basement, attached garage, attic, terraces,
breezeways, open porches, and covered steps.
Educational Facilities. A public or private nursery school, kindergarten, elementary school, high school,
community college, college, university, or vocational school.
Family: One or more persons living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling unit, which may
include:
a. Persons related to each other by blood, marriage, or legal adoption plus no more than one (1)
unrelated individual; or
b. No more than five (5) unrelated individuals.
Farm Market: a building, structure, or place used for the sale of produce raised on a farm or farms
owned by the operator(s).
Fence: A structure composed of non-living material (usually comprised of posts, wood boards, wire,
metal bars, or vinyl elements) which may be constructed for privacy, security, screening, enclosure, or
decoration. An underground electric fence such as “an invisible dog fence” is not included in the
meaning of this definition of the word “fence.”
Floor Area Ratio: Floor area ratio is the total floor area of the building or buildings on a lot or parcel
divided by the gross area of the lot or parcel.
Frontage: The front or frontage is that side of a lot abutting on a street or way and ordinarily regarded
as the front of the lot, but it shall not be considered as the ordinary side line of a corner lot. For the
purposes of determining yard requirements on corner lots, all sides of a lot adjacent to streets shall be
considered frontage.
Garage, Private: An accessory use for the purpose of housing non-commercial vehicles, the property of
and for the use of the occupants of the lot on which the private garage is located. A detached garage is
one not sharing a wall of the principal building. An attached garage is one with one wall or fifty-one (51)
percent or greater thereof being an integral part of one wall of the principal building.
Garage Sales: The sale of used household items and others conducted from or on residential premises
in any zone as defined in the zoning resolution. Garage sale includes, but is not limited to lawn,
basement, yard, attic, porch, room, backyard, patio, tag, estate or rummage sale.
General or Professional Office. A room or suite of rooms in which a person conducts the affairs of a
business, profession, service, industry, or government including but not limited to legal, architectural,
engineering, finance, and real estate.
Grade: The average level of the finished surface of the ground adjacent to the exterior walls of the
buildings.
Group Home: A community residential facility licensed and/or approved and regulated by the State of
Ohio which provides rehabilitative or habilitative services for six or more persons.
Home Occupation: Home Occupation means an accessory use which is an activity, profession,
occupation, service, craft, or revenue-enhancing hobby which is clearly incidental and subordinate to
the use of the premises as a dwelling, and is conducted in conformance with this Resolution without
adverse effect upon the surrounding neighborhood or with only limited or mitigated effects.
Uses otherwise defined and regulated by this Resolution shall not be deemed home occupations. (e.g.
Bed and Breakfast, Day Care Facility).
Home occupations are of three types (Home Occupation Type I, Home Occupation Type II, and Home
Occupation Type III) that may be listed as permitted or conditionally permitted uses in each district.
a. Home Occupation Type I. This use is generally described as a home occupation use which has no
impact or very low impact on adjoining properties and there is no evidence of the home
occupation visible, audible, or otherwise apparent from the property lines inconsistent with the
impacts of a typical dwelling use.
b. Home Occupation Type II. This use is generally described as a home occupation use which has
low impact on adjoining properties and there may be limited evidence of the home occupation
visible, audible, or otherwise apparent from the property lines. Impacts are deemed negligible,
sufficiently infrequent, acceptable, sufficiently mitigated, and compatible with the residential
surrounds.
c. Home Occupation Type III. This use is generally described as a home occupation use that has or
may have greater impacts than Type I or Type II that are unsuited to a residential district but
may be compatible in the BC District if established in a legally existing dwelling.
Hospital: An institution where sick or injured persons are given medical care and in the course of care
may be housed overnight, fed, and provided nursing and related services. The term “hospital” does not
include rehab facilities, halfway houses, nursing homes, or similar facilities.
Hotel/Motel: A building in which lodging is provided and offered to the public for compensation and
which is open to transient guests as distinguished from a boarding house or a lodging house.
Inoperable Motor Vehicle: Any motor propelled vehicle or accessory to same, being stored outdoors,
which is wrecked or in the process of being dismantled, and which does not have a license thereon
which is valid or was valid not more than six (6) months previous, shall be deemed to be an inoperable
motor vehicle.
Junk Yard (Junk Building, Junk Shop): More than twenty-five (25) square feet of any land used for
private and/or commercial purposes, where waste, discarded or salvaged materials such as scrap
metals, appliances, used building materials, used lumber, used glass, discarded motor vehicles, paper,
rags, rubber cordage. barrels, etc., are sold, stored, bought, exchanged, baled, packed, sorted,
disassembled, dismantled or handled.
Kennel: Any lot or premises on which four or more cats or dogs, or any combination thereof more than
four months of age, are housed, groomed, bred, boarded, trained, or sold provided, however, a kennel
shall not include a veterinary or animal clinic.
Landscaped area: The ratio of the total of the areas of a lot permanently devoted and maintained to the
growing of shrubbery, grass, and other plant material to the area of the lot, expressed as a percentage.
Library: A public nonprofit facility in which literary, musical, artistic, or reference materials such as but
not limited to books, manuscripts, computers, recordings, or films are kept for use by or loaning to
patrons of the facility but are not normally offered for sale.
Light industry: An enterprise engaged in the manufacture, predominantly from previously prepared
materials, of finished products or parts including processing, fabricating, assembly, treatment,
packaging, incidental storage, sales, and distribution of such products, but excluding basic industrial
processing.
Lighting. See Section 710.01 Lighting Definitions.
Loading Facility/space: An unobstructed area provided and maintained for the temporary parking of
trucks and other motor vehicles for the purpose of loading and unloading goods, wares, materials,
equipment, and merchandise. The term shall include within its meaning any doors, docks, ramps, and
maneuvering areas required for loading and unloading of trucks, including but not limited to by means
of front end loaders, fork lifts, and similar equipment. The term shall not include spaces reserved for
loading/unloading of automobiles, pickup trucks, and small delivery vans through a standard door not
exceeding 36”x80”.
Lot: A lot is a piece or parcel of land occupied or intended to be occupied or intended to be occupied by
a principal building and possible accessory building(s), or utilized for a principal use and uses accessory
thereto, and having frontage on a public street.
Lot Area: The area contained within the lot lines exclusive of any portion of the right-of-way of any
public or private street.
Lot Coverage: The ratio of total ground floor area of all buildings on a lot to the area of the lot,
expressed as a percentage.
Lot Lines: The boundary lines defining the limits of the lot.
a. Front Lot Line: The right-of-way line separating the lot from the street right-of-way on which
the lot fronts. On a corner lot, the owner or developer may elect either right-
b. Rear Lot Line: of-way line as the "front lot line" subject to the approval of the zoning
c. Side Lot Line: inspector.
The lot line opposite and most distant from the front lot line.
Any lot line which is not a front lot line or a rear lot line.
Lot Measurements: A lot shall be measured as follows:
a. Depth: The distance between the mid-points of straight lines connecting the
b. Width: foremost points of the side lot lines in front and the rearmost points of the
side lot lines in the rear.
The distance between straight lines connecting front and rear lot lines at
each side of the lot, measured at the building setback line.
Lot of Record: A lot which is part of a subdivision recorded in the office of the County recorder, or a lot
or parcel described by metes and bounds, the description of which has been recorded.
Lot Types: Terminology used in this Resolution with reference to corner lots, interior lots and through
lots is as follows:
a. Corner Lot: A lot located at the intersection of two or more streets, whether public or
private. A lot abutting on a curved street or streets shall be considered a
b. Interior Lot: corner lot if straight lines drawn from the foremost points of the side lot lines
c. Through Lot: to the foremost point of the lot meet at an interior angle of less than one
hundred and thirty-five (135) degrees.
A lot with only one frontage on a street.
A lot other than a corner lot with frontage on more than one street.
Through lots abutting two streets may be referred to as double frontage lots.
Medical or Dental Clinic, Office or Laboratory: A building in which persons are provided medical care on
an outpatient basis only, including but not limited to the services of physicians, dentists, chiropractors,
psychiatrists, or other licensed practitioners of the healing arts.
Mobile Home: An industrialized building unit constructed on a chassis for towing to the point of use,
designed to be used with or without a permanent foundation and intended to be occupied as a dwelling.
Mobile Home Park: A parcel of land under single ownership that has been planned and improved for the
placement of mobile homes or manufactured housing for dwelling purposes.
Museum: A building serving as a repository for a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities or
objects of interest or works of art and arranged, intended and designed to be used by members of the
public for viewing with or without an admission charge.
Neighborhood-oriented personal services: An establishment which offers specialized goods and services
purchased frequently by the consumer, including but not limited to establishments such as barber
shops, beauty salons, dry cleaning and/or laundry establishment; self-service laundromat; tanning salon;
funeral home; shoe repair, dressmaking, tailoring, photo copying establishments, travel agent; repair of
household appliances, and other uses deemed similar uses by the Board of Zoning Appeals as provided
in this Resolution.
Neighborhood-oriented retail business: Establishments such as drug stores, meat markets, bakeries,
convenience stores, hardware stores, and other uses deemed similar uses by the Board of Zoning
Appeals as provided in this Resolution.
Nursery and garden supply: The retail or wholesale handling of any article, substance, or commodity
related to the planting, maintenance, or harvesting of garden plants, shrubs, trees, packaged fertilizers,
soils, chemicals, or other nursery goods and related products in small quantities to the consumer or at
wholesale to the landscape industry.
Nonconforming Use: Any building or land lawfully occupied by a use on the effective date of this
Resolution or any amendment or supplement thereto, which does not conform to the use regulations of
the District in which it is situated.
Nude Model Studio: Any place where a person who appears in a state of nudity or displays specified
anatomical areas is provided solely to be sketched, drawn, painted, sculptured, photographed, or
similarly depicted by other persons.
Nudity or a State of Nudity:
a. The appearance of a human bare buttock, anus, genitals, or aureole of the female breasts; or
b. A state of dress which fails to cover opaquely a human buttock, anus, or genitals, or aureole of
the female breast.
Nursing Care Facility: A facility that provides for the reception and care of individuals who by reason of
illness or physical or mental impairment require skilled nursing care and/or those who require personal
assistance but not skilled nursing care. A nursing care facility shall be licensed by the State of Ohio to
provide personal assistance and skilled nursing care and to provide beds counted for certification,
licensure, eligibility for Medicare or Medicaid payment formulas.
Outdoor Retail Display Area: Any outside area devoted to the viewing from the street a representative
sample of retail goods and merchandise for sale, rent or lease from the premises.
Place of assembly: A structure where the public or membership groups assemble regularly or
occasionally for an event or regularly scheduled program including but not limited to churches, theaters,
auditoriums, funeral homes, stadiums, and similar.
Public Building. Any building held, used, or controlled exclusively for public purposes by any department
or branch of federal, state, county, municipal, or township government. Includes but is not limited to
public safety facility and public service facility.
Public Safety Facility: A public facility providing services necessary for the safety of the residents of the
Township, including police, fire protection, and rescue activities.
Public Service Facility: A structure providing for public services such as power plants, or substations,
water treatment plants or pumping stations, sewage disposal or pumping plants and other similar public
service structures operated by a public utility, by a rail-road, whether publicly or privately owned, or by
a municipal or other governmental agency.
Recreational Vehicle: A vehicular portable structure built on a chassis or designed to be mounted on or
drawn by a motor vehicle and intended to be used for temporary occupancy for travel, recreational or
vacation use.
Recreation, Commercial: Commercial recreation is land or facilities operated as a business and shall
include, bicycle rental, ski or roller blade rental, pay to play athletic fields, golf courses, bowling alleys,
roller skating/ ice skating rinks or swimming pools.
Recreation, Non-Commercial: Non-Commercial recreation is any land or facility operated by a
governmental agency or non-profit organization and open to the public or members of the non-profit
organization without a fee that shall include but is not limited to: picnic areas, bike/ hike trails, public
golf courses, athletic fields or swimming pools.
Restaurant, Carry Out or Drive Through Restaurant: A retail service establishment whose principal
business is the sale of foods, frozen desserts or beverages in ready to consume individual servings for
carryout and/or drive through service.
Restaurants – Table Service: A retail service establishment wherein the entire business activity, or
substantially all of the business activity, consists of the sale of food and service to patrons seated at
tables for consumption within the building.
Right-Of-Way: A strip of land taken or dedicated for use as a public way. In addition to the roadway, it
normally incorporates the curbs, lawn strips, sidewalks, water and sewer lines, lighting and drainage
facilities, and may include special features (required by the topography or treatment) such as grade
separation, landscaped areas, viaducts, and bridges.
Road, Public: A public thoroughfare which has been dedicated for public use or subject to public
easements therefore, and which affords the principal means of access to abutting property.
Roadside Stand: A removable structure used or intended to be used solely by the owner or the tenant
of a property on which it is located for the sale of seasonable agricultural products produced on the
premises and to be removed and stored back of the building line
of the property at the conclusion of the seasonable sales.
Setback Line: A line parallel with and measured from the lot line, defining the limits of a yard in which no
building, or structure may be located.
Sewerage Centralized System: An approved wastewater disposal system which provides a collection
network and disposal system and central wastewater treatment facility for a single development,
community, or region;
On site: A septic tank or similar installation on an individual lot which utilizes an aerobic bacteriological
process or equally satisfactory process for the elimination of sewage and provides for the proper and
safe disposal of the effluent, subject to the approval of health and sanitation officials having jurisdiction.
Sexually Oriented Business: An adult arcade, adult bookstore, adult video store, adult cabaret, adult
motion picture theatre or adult theatre. Sexually oriented business does not include a nude model
studio.
Sign: Any visual communication display, object, device, graphic, structure, or part, independently
situated on the parcel, or attached to, painted on, or displayed from a building structure or vehicle in
order to direct or attract attention to, or to announce or promote, an object, person, service, product,
event, location, organization or the like, by means of letters, words, designs, colors, symbols, flags,
banners, fixtures, images or illuminations.
a. Directional Sign. A permanent or temporary instructional sign located near the public right-of-
way on private property directing or guiding vehicular traffic onto or from the property.
b. Electronic Message Center. Any sign that uses electronic means such as combinations of LEDs,
fiber optics, light bulbs, or other illumination devices within a sign display area to cause one
display to be replaced by another.
c. Flag. A sign made of cloth, vinyl or similar pliant material that is attached on one side to a
flagpole and is designed to flow in the wind.
d. Ground Sign. A sign freestanding from any other structure, installed upon a foundation or short
post or posts which support the lowest part of the sign to a height not greater than two (2) feet
above the existing grade.
e. Nonconforming Sign. A sign that was installed in conformance with the Zoning Resolution in
effect at the time of its installation, but which is not in conformity with the provisions pertaining
to signs contained in this Resolution.
f. Off-Premises Sign. A sign not related to a business or profession or activity conducted, or a
commodity or service sold or offered on the premises where the sign is located.
g. On-Premises Sign. A sign related to a business, profession, or activity conducted, or a
commodity or service sold or offered on the premises where the sign is located.
h. Permanent Sign. Any sign designed for use for an indefinite period. Permanent signs may be
ground signs or wall signs.
i. Principal Use or Main Use. The main or primary purpose for which a structure or lot is designed,
arranged, or intended or for which it may be used, occupied, or maintained under this
Resolution.
j. Temporary Sign. Any sign which is designed to be used only for a limited time and is not, nor
intended to be, permanently attached to a building, structure, or the ground. “Temporary Sign”
includes any sign constructed of cloth, canvas, vinyl, paper, plywood, fabric, plastic sheet, or
other lightweight material and any portable sign, sandwich board, A-frame, or similar sign. A
portable sign is a temporary sign designed to be transported including but not limited to signs
with wheels (either attached or removed on site) and signs with transportable chassis or support
constructed without wheels.
Specified Anatomical Areas: Human genitals.
Specified Sexual Activities: Any of the following:
a. The fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus, or female
breasts;
b. Sex acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including intercourse, oral copulation, or
sodomy;
c. Masturbation, actual or simulated.
Stable, Private: A structure for the shelter of animals.
Street: All property dedicated for public right-of-way.
Story: That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the next
floor above it, or if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next
above it.
Story, Half: A space under a sloping roof which has the line of intersection of roof decking and wall face
not more than three (3) feet above the top floor level.
Structures: Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires permanent location on the
ground or attached to something having a permanent location on the ground, including advertising
signs, bill-boards, pergolas or farmer's roadside stands.
Structural Alterations: Any change in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls or
partitions, columns, beams, or girders, or any increase in the area or cubical contents of a building.
Theater: A building used to show motion pictures or for dramatic, dance, musical, or other live
performances.
Tool and Equipment Rental: An establishment providing the rental of tools, lawn and garden equipment,
party supplies and similar goods and equipment including storage and incidental maintenance. The
meaning of “tool and equipment rental includes the rental of construction equipment and vehicles for
commercial construction activities.
Trailer, House: See Mobile Home
Trailer, Travel: See Recreational Vehicle
Trustees: The Trustees of Boston Township.
Veterinary Clinic: An establishment operated by a licensed veterinarian for the care and treatment of
dogs, cats and comparable household pets. A veterinary clinic may provide overnight care of such
animals when necessary in the medical treatment of the animal but shall not otherwise provide day care
or overnight boarding. See also definition for Kennel.
Yard: An open space on the same lot with a building, unoccupied and unobstructed by any portion of a
structure from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided herein. In measuring a yard for the
purpose of determining the width of a side yard, the depth of a front yard or the depth of a rear yard,
the mean horizontal distance between the lot lines and the main building shall be used.
Yard, Front: A yard extending across the front of a lot between side yard lines and being the minimum
horizontal distance between the street line and the main building or projection thereof.
Yard, Rear: A yard extending across the rear of a lot measured between the side lot lines and being the
minimum horizontal distance between the side lot lines and being the minimum horizontal distance
between the rear lot line and the rear of the main building or any other projection other than steps. On
a corner lot the rear yard shall be considered as parallel to the street upon which the lot has its least
dimension. On both corner lots and interior lots, the rear yard shall in all cases be the opposite end of
the lot from the front yard.
Yard, Side: A yard between the main building and the side lines of the lot and extending from the front
yard to the rear yard.
Yard, Required: The minimum yard required between a lot line and a building line in order to comply
with the regulations of the district in which the zoning lot is located.
Zone Districts: The unincorporated area of the Township of Boston, Ohio, is hereby divided into three
(3) districts as follows:
a. R Residential
b. VR Village Residential
c. BC Business Corridor
d. EAD Economic Activity District
e. SRB Seasons Road Business
District Boundary Lines: Where boundaries apparently follow lines and are not more than ten (10) feet,
there-from, the lot lines shall be construed to be such boundaries; where boundaries apparently follow
streets or alleys, the center lines of such streets/alleys shall be construed to be such boundaries.
Whenever any street or public way is vacated by official action of the County Commissioners or an
agency of the State of Ohio, the Zoning Districts adjoining each side of the street or public way all area
included in the vacation shall thereafter be subject to all regulations of the extended Districts.
Zoning Lot: See Lot
Zoning Map: The locations and boundaries of the "Zone Districts" are shown on the map entitled
"Zoning Map of Boston Township, Ohio," on file and may be purchased from the Zoning Clerk, Peninsula,
Ohio. This map and all notations, references, data, and other information shown thereon are hereby
incorporated and made a part of this Resolution.
