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BED-AND-BREAKFAST INN — An owner-occupied building designed, use and occupied as a single- family residence having, as an accessory use therein, public lodging rooms and facilities for preregistered short-term transient guests.[Added 5-11-1993 by L.L. No. 1-1993] BOARDING- OR ROOMING HOUSE — The furnishing of meals and/or living accommodations for four or more persons on a weekly or longer time basis for compensation. BUILDING COVERAGE — The horizontal area of a lot covered by buildings, measured to the outside of walls. BUILDING HEIGHT — The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed finished grade at the front of the building to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the deck line of mansard roofs and to the mean height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs. CAMPING GROUND — Land used for temporary overnight accommodations in tents, trailers or other nondwelling arrangements. This term does not include mobile home courts. CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY — A certificate issued by the Building Zoning Officer upon completion of construction, alteration or change in occupancy or use of a building. Said certificate shall acknowledge compliance with all the requirements of this chapter and such adjustments thereto granted by the Board of Appeals. CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT — A development of residential lots, each containing less area than the minimum lot required for the zone within which such development occurs but maintaining the density limitation imposed by said minimum lot area through the provision of open space as a part of the subdivision plan. COMMERCIAL GARAGE — Any building, structure or lot which is used for the repair, maintenance or equipping of motor vehicles. COMMERCIAL RECREATION — The use of land or structures thereon for recreational functions or purposes for the use of the general public or enrolled membership and operated for gain. DRIVEWAY — A road or right-of-way, usually private, extending from a street or other public thoroughfare to a building, house, garage or other fixed structure.[Added 10-11-2016 by L.L. No. 3-2016] DWELLING — A building used as the living quarters for one or more families, but not including a boardinghouse or rooming house, hotel or lodging house or motel. DWELLING GROUP — A group of two or more dwellings located on the same lot and having any yard or open space in common. DWELLING, MULTIFAMILY — A building or a group of buildings on one lot containing three or more dwelling units or two or more buildings with one or more dwellings on one lot. DWELLING, ONE-FAMILY — A building containing one dwelling unit. DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY — A building containing two dwelling units.[Amended 12-8-1998 by L.L. No. 2-1998] DWELLING UNIT — A structure or part of a structure containing a room or rooms designed for human occupancy by one family and including customary kitchen facilities. FACILITY -- Any building, structure, or area used for a specific function or activity, including but not limited to educational, recreational, governmental, utility, medical, or institutional uses. This definition may include accessory structures or areas associated with the primary function of the facility. FAMILY — One person or more than one person related by birth, marriage or other domestic bond, occupying a dwelling unit and living as a single, nonprofit housekeeping unit, including domestic servants and gratuitous guests, together with boarders, roomers or lodgers not in excess of the number allowed by 3