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LODGING HOUSE:- A building other than a hotel, where lodging for more than five (5) persons is provided for compensation. LOT: A parcel of ground bet apart by recognized boundary lines, and having frontage upon a street. LOT OF RECORD: A lot which is a part of a subdivision, the map of which sub- division has been recorded in the office of the Recorder of St. Joseph County,or ^or which a deed has been recorded in the office of the Recorder of said county. TAT, CORNER: A lot at the junction of two streets, with frontage on two of its boundary lines, IOT, LNTERIOR: A lot with frontage on but one street. TAT, THROUGH: A lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel strec.ts. TAT LINES: The boundary lines of a lot as herein defined. MAJOR BUILDING: A building housing the principal occupancy on a lot. OCCUPANCY: The use to which a building or premises is devoted. OCCUPATION, HOME: Personal services conducted in a home by the occupant alone, not involving sales or display rooms. PLACE: An open, unoccupied space, other than a street or alley, permanently reserved for purpose of access to abutting property. SETBACK: The minimum horizontal distance between the street line and the front line of the building, or any projection thereof, excluding steps, unenclosed porches and sun - parlors. SUN - PARLOR: A Glass enclosed porch. STORY: That portion of a building between the surface of any floor and the sur- face of the floor above, or if there be no floor above it, to.the ceiling next above. STORY,HALF: A story under a gable, gambrel or hip roof, the wall plates of which on at least two opposite exterior walls, are not more than two (2) feet above the floor of such story. STREET: A public thoroughfare more than sixteen (16) feet wide which affords the principal access to the abutting property. STRUCTURE: An edifice or building of any kind, or any piece of work artificially built up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner. STRUCTURAL ALTERATION: Any change in the supporting members of a building such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders. YARD: An open space, other than a court, on the same lot with a building and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided herein. YARD, REAR: A yard extending across the full width of the lot between the rear line of the building and the rear lot line, YARD, SIDE: Open space between the building and the side line of the lot. -3-