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automotive vehicles used by the occupants of the premises. GARAGE, PUBLIC — Any garage other than a private garage, available to the public, operated for gain and used for motor vehicle storage, repair, rental, servicing, adjusting or equipping. GASOLINE SERVICE STATION — A building, structure or tract of land used for the storage and sale of gasoline, motor fuel, lubricants, accessories, supplies and any other materials related to the maintenance or equipment of automobiles or in which repairs, adjustments, maintenance or the equipping of automobiles is conducted. The term shall include, without limitation, the rendering of the following services: fueling or changing oil, water, batteries or tires; replacing fan belts, air filters or oil filters; and installing windshield wiper blades or light bulbs. The term shall not include any such establishment which renders such services or stores such materials for a single commercial or industrial establishment rather than offering such services and materials to the public. GROUND FLOOR AREA OF DWELLING — The projected plan area of the dwelling enclosed for year- round use, exclusive of garages, carports, open porches and verandas, and exclusive of accessory buildings, whether attached or detached. HEIGHT — In regard to fences, the distance measured from the existing grade to the top of the fence. HOME OCCUPATION — An accessory use, of a service character, conducted within a dwelling by the residents thereof, which occupation is clearly secondary to the use of the dwelling for the living purposes and does not change the character thereof or have any exterior evidence of such secondary use other than a permitted nameplate, and in connection with which there is not involved the keeping of a stock-in- trade. The following occupations, such as, but not limited to, are deemed home occupations: teaching of voice or individual musical instruments, computer services, bookkeeping, accounting and manufacturers' representatives.[Amended 12-8-1998 by L.L. No. 2-1998] HOME PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATION — The office of a member of a recognized profession when conducted on residential property; such occupations shall include but not be limited to those of doctors, lawyers, architects, engineers, artists, ministers and other recognized professional persons. HOTEL or LODGING HOUSE — A building containing sleeping rooms for five or more persons, which rooms are available to the public for less than a week at a time for compensation, with no cooking or dining facilities except a general kitchen and public dining room. JUNKYARD — An area, lot or unenclosed shed where junk, waste or discarded salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, sorted, baled, packed, disassembled, handled or abandoned, including auto wrecking or dismantling yards, house wrecking yards, used lumber yards and places or yards for use of salvaged house wrecking and structural steel materials and equipment; but not including pawn shops and establishments for the sale, purchase or storage of used furniture, household equipment and clothing, for processing of used, discarded or salvaged materials as part of manufacturing operations or for the sale, purchase or storage of used motor vehicles or salvaged machinery to be reused for the purpose for which originally manufactured. KENNEL — Any premises on which four or more dogs over six months of age are kept. LOT — A parcel of land considered as a unit, devoted to a certain use or occupied by a building or a group of buildings that are united by a common interest or use, and the customary accessories and open spaces belonging to the same. A "lot" within the meaning of this chapter may or may not be a lot as shown on a subdivision plat, assessment record or recorded deed. LOT AREA — The net area contained within lot lines. LOT LINES — The property lines bounding the lot by legal description. The "front lot line" shall be measured at the edge of the right-of-way of the highway giving access to the lot. In the case of a corner lot, the owner may designate either street line as the "front lot line" and shall maintain the minimum setbacks from the edge of each right-of-way. The "rear lot line" shall be the lot line most distance from the front lot 4