§ III. Definitions.

For the purpose of this Ordinance, certain words and terms are hereby defined. Words used in the present tense shall include the future, the singular number shall include the plural and the plural the singular; the word "building" shall include the word "structure" and the word "shall" is mandatory and not directory.

1.

Accessory building and uses: A 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.

2.

Alley: A way affording a secondary means of access to property abutting thereon.

2-A.

Antenna: A device made of metal, graphite, fiberglass or other material which is attached to a monopole, transmission tower, building or other structure for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic waves.

Editor's note— Definition 2-A was added by Ord. No. 00-142, § 1, adopted June 22, 2000.

3.

Apartment: A room or suite of rooms with culinary facilities designed for or used as living quarters for a single family.

4.

Apartment hotel: A building designed for or containing both apartments and individual guest rooms or suites of rooms and apartments, wherein is maintained an inner lobby through which all tenants must pass to gain access to the apartments, and catering to permanent and not transient tenants, and which may furnish services ordinarily furnished by hotels, such as drug store, barber shop, cigar and news stands, dining rooms, when such uses are located entirely within the building with no entrance from the street nor visible from any sidewalk, and having no sign display visible from the outside of the building, indicating the existence of such use.

5.

Apartment house: See dwelling, multiple family.

6.

Basement: See cellar.

7.

Billboard: See sign, advertising.

8.

Boarding house: A building other than a hotel where, for compensation and by pre-arrangement for a definite period, meals or lodging and meals are provided for three (3) or more persons but not exceeding ten (10) persons.

9.

Buffer area: An area which acts as a separation area between two (2) or more noncompatible districts.

10.

Building: Any structure designed or built for the support, enclosure, shelter, or protection of a person, animals, chattels, or property of any kind.

11.

Building, height of: The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the grade at the front of the building to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof to the mean height level between eaves and ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs and to the deck line of a mansard roof.

12.

Buildable area: The area of that part of the lot not included in the yards or open spaces herein required.

13.

Bulletin board: See sign, advertising.

14.

Cafeteria: A restaurant at which patrons serve themselves at a counter and take the food to the tables to eat.

15.

Camp, fishing and/or hunting: A camp providing fishing and/or hunting facilities and overnight accommodations for guests but which does not include permanent residential dwellings other than that of the owner or operator.

16.

Carport: A canopy or shed, attached to or detached from the main building, open on two (2) or more sides, for the purpose of providing shelter for one (1) or more vehicles.

Editor's note— Paragraph 16. of section III appears as amended by section I or Ordinance Number 169, adopted August 31, 1977.

17.

Cellar: An area below the first story having more than one-half of its height below grade and used for utilities, storage, garage for occupants of the building, or janitor or watchman quarters. A cellar so used shall not be considered as a story.

18.

Clinic: An establishment used by physicians, surgeons, dentists, physiotherapists, psychiatrists, or practitioners in related specialties or a combination of persons in these professions where patients who are not lodged overnight are admitted for examination and treatment.

19.

Club: Buildings and facilities owned and operated by a corporation, association, person or persons for a social, educational or recreational purpose, but not primarily for profit, to render a service which is normally carried on as a business.

20.

Court: An open space which may or may not have access and around which is arranged a single building or a group of related buildings.

21.

Coverage: That percentage of the plot or lot area covered by the building area.

22.

District: Any section of the parish in which these Zoning Regulations are uniform.

23.

Dormitory: Same as boarding house.

24.

Dwelling: Any building which is designed for or used exclusively for residential purposes. For the purpose of this Ordinance, such buildings shall have a minimum area of four hundred (400) square feet.

25.

Dwelling, single-family: A building, not to include a mobile home, designed for or occupied exclusively by one (1) family.

26.

Dwellings, two-family: A building, not to include a mobile home, designed for or occupied exclusively by two (2) families.

27.

Dwelling, multiple-family: A building, not to include a mobile home, designed for or occupied exclusively by three (3) or more families.

Editor's note— Paragraphs 26. and 27. of Section III appear as amended by section 1 of Ordinance Number 145, adopted March 10, 1976.

28.

Easement: A grant by the property owner to the public, a corporation, or persons, of the use of a strip of land for specific purposes.

29.

Extraction: The removal from the premises of sand, gravel, shells, top-soil, minerals, or other natural resources from a lot or a part thereof.

29-A.

Fall radius: The area in which a tower, including all antennas and/or other attachments, is expected to fall in the event of collapse, set forth as follows:

a.

Monopole—Fall radius equal to tower height.

b.

Self-support lattice—Fall radius equal to tower height.

c.

Guyed tower—Fall radius equal to tower height.

Editor's note— Definition 29-A was added by Ord. No. 00-142, adopted June 22, 2000.

30.

Family: One (1) or more persons, related by blood or marriage, living together and occupying a single housekeeping unit, with single culinary facilities, or a group of not more than four (4) persons living together by mutual agreement and occupying a single housekeeping unit with single culinary facilities on a non-profit cost-sharing basis.

31.

Farm: Any parcel of land consisting of more than three (3) acres, which is used for gain in the raising of agricultural products, crop growing, nursery stock and gardening, livestock, poultry, and dairy products, or any raising of animals or cultivation of fish or shell-fish. It includes necessary farm structures within the prescribed limits and the storage of equipment. It excludes the raising of fur-bearing animals, riding academies, livery or boarding stables, and dog kennels.

Editor's note— Section III.31. appears herein as amended by § 1 of Ord. No. 96-49, adopted March 14, 1996.

31-A.

Farm, mini: Any parcel of land consisting of not less than one (1) acre nor more than three (3) acres, which is used for the raising of agricultural products, or any raising of animals or cultivation of fish or shellfish. It includes necessary farm structures within the prescribed limits and the storage of equipment. It excludes the raising of fur-bearing animals, riding academies, livery or boarding stables and dog kennels.

32.

Filling station: Any building, structure, or land used for the dispersing, sale, or offering for sale at retail of any automobile fuels, oils, or accessories, except that indoor car washing, minor motor adjustment, and flat tire repair may be performed when incidental to the conduct of a filling station.

33.

Floor area:

A.

Commercial, business, and industrial: The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of the main building measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls, or from the center line of walls separating two (2) buildings but not including:

1.

Attic space providing less than seven (7) feet of headroom.

2.

Cellar space not used for retailing.

3.

Uncovered steps or fire escapes.

4.

Accessory water towers or cooling towers.

5.

Accessory off-street parking spaces.

6.

Accessory off-street loading areas.

B.

Residential: The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of the dwelling exclusive of garages, cellars, and open or roofed porches measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls of a dwelling.

34.

Floor area ratio: The floor area of a building or buildings on any lot divided by the area of the lot.

35.

Frontage: All the property on one side of a street between two (2) intersecting streets (crossing or terminating), or if the street is dead-ended, then all of the property abutting on one side between an intersecting street and the dead end of the street.

36.

Garage, parking: A building, land or portion thereof designed or used for the temporary storage of motor-driven vehicles, with or without the retail dispensing, sale, or offering for sale of motor fuels, lubricants, and tires, or indoor car washing, minor motor adjustment, and flat tire repair when such operations are incidental to the storage of motor-driven vehicles.

37.

Garage, private: An enclosed space for the storage of not more than three (3) motor vehicles, provided that no business, occupation, or service is conducted for profit therein, and that space therein for more than one (1) motor vehicle is not leased to a non-resident of the premises; and provided further that not more than one (1) of the vehicles stored shall be a commercial vehicle of not more than two (2) ton capacity.

38.

Garage, public: A building, land or portion thereof other than a private or parking garage, designed or used for equipping, servicing, repairing, hiring, selling, or storing motor driven vehicles.

39.

Garage, storage: An enclosed space for the storage of three (3) or more motor vehicles pursuant to previous arrangement and not to transients and at which automobile fuels and oils are not sold and motor vehicles are not equipped, repaired, hired, or sold.

40.

Grade: The elevation of the ground at a building or building site as established by the parish engineer or his equivalent.

40.1.

Guyed tower: A tower that is supported, in whole or in part, by guy wires and the ground.

40.2.

Height of tower: The height of a tower shall be measured from the construction grade of the site to the highest point of the tower, including all antennas and/or attachments.

40.4.

Heliport: An area of land, water or structure or portion thereof used or intended to be used for the landing and takeoff of helicopters and having service facilities for such aircraft or providing for permanent basing of such aircraft.

40.6.

Helistop: An area of land, water or structure or portion thereof used or intended to be used for the landing and takeoff of helicopters providing no facilities for service or permanent basing of such aircraft are permitted with the exception of refueling.

40.8.

Highway: A general term denoting a public way for purposes of vehicular travel, including the entire area within the right-of-way, designed primarily for through traffic, usually on a continuous route.

Editor's note— Definitions 40.4—40.8 were renumbered by the editor to accomodate definitions 40.1 and 40.2 added by Ord. No. 00-142, § 1, adopted June 22, 2000.

41.

Home occupation: An accessory use of a service character customarily conducted within a dwelling by the resident thereof, which is clearly secondary to the use of the dwelling for living purposes and which does not change the character thereof or have any exterior evidence of such secondary use other than a small name plate and in connection therewith there is not involved the keeping of a stock in trade; and provided that in no case shall more than twenty (20) per cent of the floor area of any apartment in such dwelling exclusive of any accessory building be used for such home occupation. The office of a physician, surgeon, dentist, or other professional person, who offers skilled services to clients and is not professionally engaged in the purchase or sale of economic goods, including violin, piano, or other individual musical instrument instruction limited to a single pupil at a time, and any business conducted by telephone only, shall be deemed to be home occupations; and the occupations of dressmaker, milliner, or seamstress, each with not more than one paid assistant shall also be deemed to be home occupations; and the occupation of beautician shall be deemed to be a home occupation. The following shall not be interpreted to be home occupations: dancing instruction, band instrument instruction in groups, tea rooms, tourist homes, real estate offices, convalescent homes, mortuary establishments, and stores, trades, or business of any kind not herein excepted.

Editor's note— Paragraph 41. of section III appears herein as amended by § 1 of Ord. No. 204, adopted Sept. 13, 1978, and § 1 of Ord. No. 278, adopted Sept. 3, 1980.

42.

Hospital: A building or portion thereof designed or used for the diagnosis, therapeutic treatment, or other care of ailments of patients who are physically or mentally ill.

43.

Hotel: A building used as an abiding place of more than ten (10) persons who for compensation are lodged, meals provided, where no provision is made for cooking in individual rooms or suites and in which ingress and egress to and from all rooms is through an inside lobby or office supervised by a person in charge at all hours. As such, it is open to the public in contradistinction to a boarding house or an apartment which are herein separately defined.

44.

Hotel, apartment: See apartment hotel.

45.

Institution: A building or group of buildings designed or used for the non-profit, charitable, or public service purposes of providing board, lodging, health care for persons aged, indigent, or infirm, or for the purpose of performing educational or religious services and offering board and lodging to persons in residence.

46.

Junk yard: The use of more than two hundred (200) square feet of the area of any lot, whether inside or outside a building, or the use of any portion of that half of any lot that joins any street, for the storage keeping or abandonment of junk, including scrap metals or other scrap materials, or the dismantling, demolition, or abandonment of automobiles or other vehicles or machinery or parts thereof.

47.

Kennel: The keeping of more than three (3) dogs and/or other animals that are more than six (6) months old.

48.

Laundromat: A business providing for the hire and use on the premises of home-type washing, drying and/or ironing machines.

49.

Light manufacturing: The manufacturing or processing of materials employing electricity or other unobjectionable motive power, utilizing hand labor or unobjectionable machinery or processes, and free from any objectionable odors, fumes, dirt, vibration, or noise.

50.

Line, street: The dividing line between the street and the lot.

51.

Loading space: A space within the main building on the same lot providing for the standing, loading or unloading of trucks.

52.

Lodging house: A building other than a hotel where lodging for three (3) but not more than ten (10) persons is provided for definite periods for compensation pursuant to previous arrangement.

53.

Lot: A parcel of land occupied or intended for occupancy by a use permitted in this Ordinance including permitted buildings together with accessory buildings, the yard area, and parking spaces required by this Ordinance.

54.

Lot, corner: A lot abutting upon two (2) or more streets at their intersections.

55.

Lot, depth of: A mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines, measured in the general direction of its side lot lines.

56.

Lot, interior: A lot other than a corner lot.

57.

Lot, through: A lot having frontage upon two (2) approximately parallel streets. Also, a lot of double frontage.

58.

Lot, width of: The average horizontal distance between side lot lines.

59.

Lot lines: The lines bounding a lot.

60.

Lot of record: A lot which is either part of a subdivision, the map of which has been recorded in the Office of the Parish Assessor, Parish of Plaquemines, or a parcel of land which became legally established and defined by deed or act of sale on or before the adoption of this Ordinance.

61.

Major street: A street or highway shown as a major street upon the street plan of the Parish of Plaquemines.

62.

Minor street: A street or highway not shown as a major street upon the street plan of the Parish of Plaquemines.

63.

Mobile home: Any vehicle, covered or uncovered, used for living or sleeping, having no foundation other than wheel, blocks, skids, jacks, horses or skirtings and which is, or reasonably may be equipped with wheels or other devices for transporting the vehicle from place to place, whether by motive power or other means.

Editor's note— Paragraph 63. of section III appears as amended by section I of Ordinance Number 145, adopted March 10, 1976.

64.

Mobile home park: See trailer park.

64-A.

Monopole: A single self-supporting vertical pole with no guy wire anchors, usually consisting of a galvanized or other unpainted metal or wooden pole, with a subsurface foundation and intended to support electromagnetic transmission and/or reception antennas.

Editor's note— Definition 64-A. was added by Ord. No. 00-142, § 1, adopted June 22, 2000.

64-A-1.

Modular homes. A single family residence constructed on or off a lot, transported by flatbed or axles, and does not contain a vehicle identification number.

Editor's note— Definition 64-A. was added by Ord. No. 06-66, § 1, adopted June 22, 2006.

65.

Motel: See tourist court.

66.

Nonconforming use: A structure or land lawfully occupied by a use that does not conform to the regulations of the district in which it is situated.

67.

Nursing or convalescent home: A building designed, or used in whole or in part, to provide for compensation, the care of the ill, senile, or otherwise infirm persons resident on the premises.

68.

Outdoor advertising signs: An attached or free standing structure constructed and maintained for the purpose of conveying to the public, information, knowledge, or ideas. Such structures may be double faced or V-type but shall contain no more than four (4) signs in any one unit and not more than two (2) signs side by side. The structure shall have a total length of not more than sixty (60) feet.

69.

Parking lot: An open area which is used for the temporary parking of motor vehicles but is not a required off-street parking facility.

70.

Parking space: An impervious, hard surface area, or other acceptable material, enclosed in the building or in an accessory building or unenclosed, having a rectangular area of not less than one hundred and eighty (180) square feet, with a minimum width of nine (9) feet either when unenclosed or when individually enclosed on two (2) or more sides exclusive of driveways, permanently reserved for the storage of one automobile, and connected with a street or alley by an impervious hard surface driveway, or other acceptable material, at least nine (9) feet in width providing unobstructed ingress and egress for motor vehicles.

Editor's note— Paragraph 70. of section III appears as amended by section II of Ordinance Number 169, adopted August 31, 1977.

71.

Personal service shops: Business establishments such as barber shops, beauty parlors, chiropody, massage or similar personal service shops.

72.

Place: An open, unoccupied space other than a street or alley permanently reserved as the way of access to abutting property.

73.

Restaurant: A retail establishment offering food or beverages or both, for consumption on the premises. Restaurants do not include barrooms, nightclubs, or lounges.

73-A.

Retail establishment: Any building or structure from which goods and/or services are sold to the general public, including any commercial establishment or enterprise engaged in the sale of goods or products which may include in-person purchase by the consumer at the location at which the goods or products are stored, or any other purchase and pick-up/delivery arrangement whereby the purchaser is the intended consumer and where the purchase is not made intentionally for the purpose of resale or distribution.

Editor's note— Paragraph 73-A was added by Ord. No. 11-49, § 1, adopted on March 10, 2011.

74.

Retail manufacturing: Baking, confectionery, dressmaking, dyeing, laundry, dry cleaning, printing, tailoring, upholstering, and similar establishments, and businesses of a similar and no more objectionable character subject to the following provisions:

a.

All goods or products manufactured or processed shall be sold at retail on the premises.

b.

All such manufacturing or processing shall be done on the premises and not more than five (5) persons shall be employed at any one time.

75.

Rooming house: See lodging house.

76.

School, trade or industrial: An establishment, public or private, offering training to students in skills required for the practice of trades and in industry.

77.

School business: Privately owned schools offering instruction in accounting, secretarial work, business administration, the fine or illustrative arts, trades, dancing, music, and similar subjects.

78.

School, private: Privately owned schools having a curriculum essentially the same as ordinarily given in the public elementary or high school. The term includes day nurseries, kindergartens and child care centers under the following conditions:

A.

There shall be a building or structure within which a minimum of thirty-five (35) square feet per child of usable available play or instruction space shall be provided.

B.

There shall be a minimum of thirty-five (35) square feet per child of usable, available outdoor play or instruction area on the lot or property, provided that no portion of such play or instruction area shall be located within the required front yard of the lot or property.

C.

Outdoor play or instruction areas shall be enclosed by a fence no less than three (3) feet in height.

D.

Additionally, a landscaped hedge or fence shall be provided along any rear or side property line adjoining any residentially zoned property not used for a similar purpose. Any such hedge or fence shall be designed and planted at least five (5) feet in height and eighty (80) per cent or more opaque when viewed horizontally.

E.

Child care centers shall provide a minimum of one (1) off-street parking space, or one (1) off-street parking space for each three hundred fifty (350) square feet of play or instruction space, whichever is the greater.

Editor's note— Paragraph 78. of section III appears as amended by § 1 of Ord. No. 414, adopted Jan. 26, 1983. The editor has redesignated subparagraphs 1.—5. as A.—E. to preserve format consistency.

78-A.

Self-support lattice: A tower that is supported without guy wires or ground anchors.

Editor's note— Definition 78-A. was added by Ord. No. 00-142, § 1, adopted June 22, 2000.

79.

Service station: A building, structure or land used for dispensing, sale, or offering for sale at retail any automobile fuels, lubricants, or accessories and in connection with which is performed general automotive servicing as distinguished from automotive repairs.

80.

Shopping center: A group of retail stores, planned and designed for the site upon which they are built.

81.

Sign: A name, identification, description, display, illustration or device which is affixed to or represented directly or indirectly upon a building, structure or land and which directs attention to a product, place, activity, person, institution or business.

82.

Sign, advertising: A sign, or structure, which directs attention to a business, commodity, service, activity or entertainment not necessarily conducted, sold or offered upon the premises upon which such sign is located.

83.

Sign, business: A sign which directs attention to a business or profession or to a commodity, service or entertainment sold or offered upon the premises where such sign is located.

84.

Sign, flashing: A sign on which the illumination is intermittent or not maintained in intensity and color.

85.

Sign, name plate: A sign which states the name or address or both of the profession or business on the lot where the sign is located.

86.

Sign, surface area of: The entire area within a single continuous perimeter enclosing the extreme limits of the actual sign surface. It does not include any structural elements outside the limits of such sign and not forming an integral part of the display. Only one (1) side of a double-face or V-type sign structure shall be used in computing total surface area.

87.

Stable, private: An accessory building for the housing of not more than one (1) horse or mule per arable acre of land owned by a person or persons living on the premises and which horses or mules are not for hire.

Editor's note— Section III.87 appears as amended by § 1 of Ord. No. 96-51, adopted March 14, 1996.

88.

Stable, public: A stable with a capacity for the housing of more than two (2) horses or mules, which stable may be operated for remuneration, hire, sale or stabling.

88-A.

Storage container: A portable box-type structure designed primarily for cargo shipping and/or temporary storage of materials or cargo.

Editor's note— Definition 88-A was added by Ord. No. 05-194, § 1, adopted July 14, 2005.

89.

Story: That portion of a building, other than a cellar, included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it or, if there be no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it.

90.

Street: A public or private thoroughfare affording the principal means of access to abutting property.

91.

Street line: The line dividing a lot, tract, or parcel of land and a contiguous street. Also, street right-of-way line.

92.

Structure: Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires a location on the ground, or attached to something having a location on the ground, including but without the generality of the foregoing, advertising signs, billboards, back stops for tennis courts, fences and pergolas.

93.

Structural alteration: Any change or rearrangement in the bearing walls, partitions, columns, beams, girders, exit facilities, exterior walls, or roof of a building excepting such repair as may be required for the safety of the building, or an enlargement, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or movement of the building from one location or position to another.

93-A.

Telecommunications tower: A monopole, guyed or self-support lattice structure or framework intended to support, radio, television, cellular, and/or any other electromagnetic transmission and/or reception antennas.

Editor's note— Definition 93-A. was added by Ord. No. 00-142, § 1, adopted June 22, 2000.

94.

Tenant dwelling: A resident structure located on a bonafide farm and occupied by a non-transient farm worker employed by the farm owner for work on the farm.

95.

Theater, drive-in: An open lot or part thereof, with its appurtenant facilities devoted primarily to the showing of moving pictures or theatrical productions, on a paid admission basis, to patrons seated in automobiles or on outdoor seats.

96.

Town house: A single-family dwelling forming one (1) of a group or series of two (2) or more attached single-family dwellings separated from one another by party walls without doors, windows, or other provisions for human passage or visibility through such walls from basement or cellar to roof, and having roofs which may extend from one of the dwelling units to another.

97.

Tourist court: A group of attached or detached buildings designed, constructed or under construction or alteration for guest rooms or dwelling units intended primarily for automobile transients, each unit having a separate entrance opening out-of-doors, or into a foyer, with parking space appropriately located on the lot for use by guests of the court, operation of such court to be supervised by a person in charge at all hours. Tourist courts include auto courts, motels, motor courts, motor hotels, and motor inns.

98.

Tourist home: A dwelling in which overnight accommodations are provided or offered for transient guests for compensation.

98-A.

Tower site: A site consisting of one (1) or more lots of record, or portions thereof, which is owned or leased by an operator for the purpose of radio, television, cellular, and/or other electromagnetic transmission and/or reception.

Editor's note— Definition 98-A. was added by Ord. No. 00-142, § 1, adopted June 22, 2000.

99.

Trailer: Any vehicle, covered or uncovered, used for business or storage purposes, having no foundation other than wheels, blocks, skids, jacks, horses or skirtings and which is, or reasonable may be equipped with wheels or other devices for transporting the vehicle from place to place, whether by motive power or other means.

Editor's note— Paragraph 99. of section III appears as amended by section 1 of Ordinance Number 145, adopted March 10, 1976.

100.

Trailer park: An area providing space where one (1) or more auto trailers can be or are intended to be parked, with flush toilet and bathing facilities provided on the site. Also trailer camp.

100A.

Travel trailer: A vehicular, portable structure, built on a chassis, used only for a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational or vacation uses, permanently identified "travel trailer" by the manufacturer of the trailer and, when factory equipped for road, having a body width not exceeding eight (8) feet, a body length not exceeding thirty (30) feet unless motor-driven, and a gross weight not exceeding forty-five hundred (4,500) pounds.

Editor's note— Paragraph 100A. of section III was created by § 1 of Ord. No. 415, adopted Jan. 26, 1983.

101.

Welfare agency: An organization, public or private, offering professional social work services to individuals or groups.

102.

Yard: An open space at grade between a building and the adjoining lot lines unoccupied and unobstructed by any portion of structure from the group upward except as otherwise provided herein. In measuring a yard to determine the width of a yard, the minimum horizontal distance between the lot line and the maximum permissible main building shall be the yard dimension.

103.

Yard, front: A yard extending across the front of a lot between the side yard lines and being the minimum horizontal distance between the street line and the maximum permissible main building. On corner lots the front yard shall be considered as parallel to the street upon which the lot has its least dimension.

104.

Yard, rear: A yard extending across the rear of a lot between the side lot lines and being the minimum horizontal distance between a rear lot line and the rear of the maximum permissible main building. On all lots the rear yard shall be at the opposite end of the lot from the front yard.

105.

Yard, side: A yard between the main building and the side lot lines and extending from the required front yard to the required rear yard, and being the minimum horizontal distance between a side lot line and a side of the maximum permissible main building.