Chapter 1 General Provisions Part 2 Definitions

Major Thoroughfare Plan - Includes a plan depicting all collectors, arterials, and limited access roads but does not include local roads.

Major Transit Corridor -Corridors that are served by public transit service seven days a week and with no more than 30 minute daytime headways on weekdays.

Manufacturing -The processing and converting of raw, unfinished, or finished materials or products, or any of these, into an article or substance of different character, or for use for a different purpose; also industries furnishing labor in the case of manufacturing or the refinishing of manufactured articles.

Map Amendment - A change in the boundaries of a form district, zoning district or other special district.

Marina -A facility for the storing, servicing, fueling, berthing, and securing of boats and that may include eating, sleeping, and retail facilities for owners, crews, and guests.

Marina and Boat Rental - A facility which allows the docking or temporary storage of boats, minor servicing and repair of boats while in the water, and retail sales not occupying more than 500 square feet.

Marina and Boat Rental, Commercial - A facility which allows the storage or docking of boats, minor servicing and repair of boats while in the water, the sale of fuel and supplies, lodging, food sales, and restaurant facilities.

Marquee -A permanent roof-like structure projecting beyond a building wall at an entrance to a building or extending along and projecting beyond the building's wall and generally designed and constructed to provide protection against the weather.

Massing -The width, volume and proportions of a building and its parts.

Master Plan – A plan that may be approved in conjunction with a rezoning to a Planned Development District, in the alternative to a PD-Concept Plan. Required contents of the Master Plan are set forth in Chapter 2, Part 8.

Materials – When used in the context of any Adult Entertainment Activity or Establishment, means any book, magazine, newspaper, or other printed or written matter, or any picture, drawing, photograph, motion picture, video cassette film or other pictorial representation or mechanical, chemical, or electrical reproduction or any other articles, equipment, machines, or materials.*

Meadow - An open space available for unstructured recreation. Its landscape is naturalistic consisting of native, herbaceous plants and requiring minimal maintenance.

Median, Non-Restrictive -A median or painted centerline which does not provide a physical barrier between center traffic turning lanes or traffic lanes traveling in opposite directions. This includes roadways with continuous center turn lanes and undivided roads.

Median, Restrictive -The portion of a divided roadway or divided driveway separating vehicular traffic traveling in opposite directions. Restrictive medians include physical barriers that prohibit movement of traffic across the median such as a concrete barrier, a raised concrete curb and/ or island, and a grassed or swaled median.

Median Opening, Directional -An opening in a restrictive median which provides for only U-turn and/ or left-turn movements.

Median Opening, Full -An opening in a restrictive median designed to allow all turning movements to take place from both the roadway and the adjacent connection.

Median Opening Spacing, Minimum -The minimum allowable spacing between openings in a restrictive median which allows space to cross the approaching traffic lanes to access property or to cross the median to travel in the opposite direction. The minimum spacing or distance is measured from centerline to centerline of the openings along the traveled way.

Medical Laboratory -Any institution, building, place or any other facility in which operations and procedures for the micro-biological, serological, chemical, hematological, immunohematological, biophysical, cytological, pathological or other methods of examination of tissues including blood, secretions and excretions of the human body are performed to obtain information in diagnosing, preventing or treating disease, or in which the results of any examination, determination or test are used as a basis for health advice. These activities include the diagnosis and identification of disease by the examination of tissues removed by surgery and also the determination of cause of death by the examination of tissues removed at autopsy.

Meeting Hall -A building designed for public assembly.

See figure 8.1.1 for map of the Metropolitan Area

Metropolitan Area - An area within Jefferson County, Kentucky as shown on the attached map which is incorporated herein and said area being more particularly described as follows:

Beginning at a point in the centerline of Dixie Highway, said point being 2,000 feet Northeast of the centerline of the Snyder Freeway; thence with a line parallel to the centerline of the Snyder Freeway, if extended, North 64 degrees 32 minutes 19 seconds West crossing the Ohio River to the Kentucky State Line; thence Northeast with said state line to a point, said point being 2,000 feet South of the centerline of the Snyder Freeway if extended from its terminus at US Highway 42; thence with a line crossing the Ohio River and parallel to the centerline of the Snyder Freeway South 64 degrees 16 minutes 47 seconds East to a point in the east line of US 42, said point being 2,000 feet Southwest of the centerline of the Snyder Freeway; thence with a line 2,000 feet from the centerline of the Snyder Freeway, and parallel to same, southeast, south, southwest, west, southwest and west to the point of beginning.

Mini-Warehouse -A building or group of buildings in a controlled-access and fenced compound that contains varying sizes of individual compartmentalized stalls or lockers with access controlled by tenant for the storage of customer's goods or wares. An operation involving a security arrangement utilizing a warehouseman as provided for in Article 7 of KRS Chapter 355 is not a mini-warehouse.

Mobile Home -Any vehicle or similar portable structure used, or so constructed as to permit its being used as a conveyance upon the public streets or highways, and designed to permit occupancy thereof as a dwelling place for one or more persons, including camper or vacation trailers; or any structure fabricated in offsite manufacturing facility for installation or assembly at the building site as a permanent structure with transport features removed, bearing a seal certifying that it is built in compliance with the federal Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Code as set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations, title 24, Part 3280, 3282, 3283, and 42 USC 5401, et seq., and as mandated by the United States of America and as administered by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and commonly referred to as the HUD Code, but not meeting the additional standards as required in Section 4.1.2, Factory Built Housing.

Mobile Home Space - An area within a Mobile Home Park designed for the accommodation of one mobile home for the exclusive use of occupants.

Mobile Home Pad -That part of an individual mobile home space which has been reserved for the placement of the mobile home, appurtenant structure or additions thereto, including necessary electrical, plumbing and other utility installations.

Mobile Home Park -A parcel of land under a single ownership or management which has been planned and improved for the placement of mobile homes for non-transient occupancy and consisting of mobile home spaces for rent or sale.

Model Dwelling -see "Dwelling, Model."

Monument -A physical structure which marks the location of a corner or other survey point set in accordance with the Minimum Standards of Practice for Land Surveying adopted by the Kentucky State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.

Motel -An establishment consisting of a group of attached or detached lodging units having bathrooms, used as individual sleeping units for ten or more persons, designed primarily for transient automobile travelers, and providing for accessory off-street parking facilities convenient to the lodging rooms and which may include one dwelling unit for a bona fide caretaker or operator. The term "motel" includes buildings designed as auto courts, tourist courts, motor lodges, autels, and similar terms.

Motor Vehicle -see "Vehicle."

MSD -Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District, or its successor.

Multi-Family Dwelling -see "Dwelling, Multi-Family."