Notes 2012-11-28 on request for enforcement350-2 Definitions
350-2.1 General
For the purpose of this chapter and unless the context of usage clearly indicates another meaning, certain terms and words shall have the meaning given
herein. Words used in the present tense include the future; the singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular; the words "used" or "occupied" include the words "designed,"
"arranged," "intended," or "offered," to be used or occupied; the words building," "structure," "lot," "land," or "premises" shall be construed as though followed by the words "or any
portion thereof"; and the word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.
BUILDING
A combination of any materials, whether portable or fixed, with or without a roof, enclosed
within exterior walls or fire walls, built to form a structure for the shelter of persons, animals, or property.
BUILDING, ATTACHED
A building having any portion of one or more walls
in common or within five feet of an adjacent building.
BUILDING, DETACHED
A building having a minimum of five feet of open space on all sides.
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL
A building in which
is conducted the principal use of the lot on which it is located.
FLOOR AREA, GROSS
The sum of the gross horizontal area of the several floors including basements of a principal building
and its faces of the walls. It does not include cellars; unenclosed porches or attics not used for human occupancy; malls within a shopping center utilized purely for pedestrian circulation
and/or decorative purposes between individual shops of the center; any floor space in an accessory or principal building intended and designed for the parking of motor vehicles in order
to meet the parking requirements of this chapter; or any such floor space intended or designed for accessory heating, ventilating and air-conditioning equipment.
OPEN SPACE
The space
on a lot unoccupied by buildings or structures, unobstructed to the sky by man-made objects other than walks, swimming pools, and terraced areas, not devoted to streets, driveways, off-street
parking or loading spaces and expressed as a percentage of total lot area.
SETBACK
The minimum distance from a lot line to a building placed thereon, or feature thereof as is required
in a particular situation by the Table of Dimensional and Density Regulations. Said setback shall be measured perpendicular (at right angles) to the lot line. At no point shall any structure
on the lot be any closer to any street line, whether said street line directly abuts the lot or not, than the minimum front yard setback requirement for that zoning district. (See Diagram
6 at the end of this section.)
STRUCTURE
A combination of materials for permanent or temporary occupancy of use, such as a building, bridge trestle, tower, framework, retaining wall,
tank, tunnel, tent, stadium, reviewing stand, platform,
swimming pool, shelters, piers, wharves, bin, fence, sign, gasoline pumps, recreational courts, or the like.
Massachusetts State Building Code, 780 CMR 202, Definitions
BUILDING.
Any structure used or intended for supporting or
sheltering any use or occupancy.
The code uses this term to identify those structures
that provide shelter for a function or activity.
See the
definition for “Area, building” for situations when a single
structure may be two or more “Buildings” created
by fire walls.
Fire and smoke protection features, 702 Definitions
BUILDINGELE
MENT.Afundamental component of building
construction, listed in Table 601, which may or may not be
of fire-resistance-rated construction and is constructed of
materials based on the
building type of construction.