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153661v1 6 Guest apartment means an apartment within a principal residence structure for the sole use of the occupants of the principal residence, including their domestic employees or their nonpaying guests, with at least one access door to the apartment from within the principal structure, such door being the primary access to the apartment. Guest house means an accessory separate dwelling constructed on an existing undivided lot for the sole use of the occupants, including their domestic employees or their nonpaying guests, of the primary dwelling. All regular lot requirements shall be met by the guest house. Half story means the uppermost floor of a building in which (i) the intersection of the exterior wall and the roof is not more than three feet above the floor elevation, and (ii) not more than 60 percent of the floor area within the exterior walls of the uppermost floor exceeds five feet in height as measured from the floor to the rafters. Floors exceeding these parameters shall be deemed a full story. Hard cover means any structure, blacktop or other material which interferes to any degree with the direct absorption of rainfall into the ground. Home occupation means any gainful occupation carried out by the occupant of a residential dwelling unit that occurs within the principal or accessory building on the property and does not change the primary residential use of the property. Level 1 and level 2 home occupations shall be as defined in [section] 78-1376. Hotel means a building containing eight or more guest rooms in which lodging is provided with or without meals for compensation and which is open to transient or permanent guests or both, and where no provision is made for cooking in any guest room, and in which ingress and egress to and from all rooms is made through an inside lobby or office supervised by a person in charge. Junkyard means an area where used, waste, discarded or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, cleaned, packed, disassembled or handled, including but not limited to scrap iron and other metals, paper, rags, rubber products, bottles and lumber. Storage of such material in conjunction with a permitted manufacturing process when within an enclosed area or building shall not be included. Lot area means the area of a lot in a horizontal plane bounded by the lot lines, but not including any area occupied by the waters of a duly recorded lake or river or wetland or area which has been dedicated as public right-of-way. Lot, back, means a lot typically separated from a public or private road by another lot and which gains access to the public or private road via a narrow corridor. Such a separated lot is considered to be a back lot when the corridor is platted as an outlot. A separated lot is considered to be a flag lot when the corridor is platted as part of the lot. When the corridor is merely an easement over another lot, the separated lot is considered to be an easement back lot. Item #05 - CC Agenda - 11/22/2010 File #10-3454 [Total Pages 151]