(a) Accessory Building. A detached subordinate building located on the same lot with a main building, the use of which is customarily secondary to that of the main building or to the use of the land.

(b) Apartment House. Same as dwelling, multiple.

(c) Automobile Parking, Private. An open area, located on the same lot with a dwelling or hotel, for parking automobiles of the occupants of such buildings.

(d) Automobile Parking Area, Public. An open area, other than a street or private automobile parking area, designed to be used for the parking of two or more automobiles.

(1) Compact automobile. An automobile whose gross area for parking purposes is one hundred twenty (120) square feet or less.

(2) Standard-sized automobile. An automobile whose gross area for parking purposes is one hundred sixty (160) square feet or less.

(e) Building. Any structure built for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels, or property of any kind.

(f) Building Height. The vertical distance measured from the average level of the highest and lowest point of that portion of the lot covered by the building to a point midway between the highest and lowest point of the roof.

(g) Compact Automobile. An automobile whose gross area for parking purposes is one hundred sixty (160) square feet or less.

(h) Cluster Development. Placement of residential units in close association to each other in order to consolidate required lot area into usable open space for the benefit of those living in such residential units.

(i) Commission. Shall mean the Territorial Land Use
Commission of Guam.

(j) Dwelling. A building or portion thereof designed exclusively for residential occupancy, including one-family, two-family and multiple dwellings, but not including hotels.

(k) Dwelling Unit. One or more rooms and a single kitchen in a dwelling, designed as a unit for occupancy by one family for living and sleeping purposes.

(l) Dwelling, One-Family. A detached building containing only one dwelling unit.

(m) Dwelling, Two-Family. A detached building containing two dwelling units.

(n) Dwelling, Multiple. A building containing three or more dwelling units.

(o) Family. An individual, or two or more persons related by blood or marriage, or a group of not more than five

persons who need not be related by blood or marriage living together as a single housekeeping unit.

(p) “”Home occupation”” means any activity operated for pecuniary gain conducted in, or directed from, a residential dwelling or unit restricted to family members residing within that dwelling as a secondary use of such dwelling unit.

(q) Hotel. A building containing six or more rooms intended or designed to be used, or which are used, rented, or hired out to be occupied, or which are occupied for sleeping purposes.

(r) Junk Yard. An open area where waste, scrap metal, paper, rags, or similar materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled, including the dismantling or storing of wrecked automobiles or other vehicles, and buildings. The terms dismantling or storing do not include the action of a licensed automobile repairer or garage owner in stripping an automobile or other vehicle of its usable parts as long as such action is accomplished within ten (10) days of the arrival of the motor vehicle being so stripped on the premises of the garage or automobile repair business.

(s) Lot. A parcel of land occupied or to be occupied by a use or building, and accessory buildings and uses, together with such yards, open spaces and lot area as are required by this Title, and having frontage on a street.

(t) Lot Line, Front. The line separating the lot from the street. For the purposes of yard requirements, a corner lot has two front yards and no rear yard. Within a panhandle lot, the front lot line begins at the interior end of the panhandle.

(u) Lot Line, Rear. The lot line which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line.

(v) Lot Line, Side. Any lot line not a front lot line or a rear lot line.

(w) Lot Depth. The horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines, measured in the mean direction of the side lot lines.

(x) Lot Width. The horizontal distance between the side lot lines, measured at right angles to the lot depth at a point midway between the front and rear lot lines.

(y) Lot Area. The total horizontal area within the lot lines of a lot.

(z) Nonconforming Building. A building or structure which does not conform to the regulations of this Chapter and which lawfully existed at the time the regulations, with which it does not conform, became effective.

(aa) Nonconforming Use. A use of a building or land which does not conform to the regulations of this Chapter and which lawfully existed at the time the regulations, with which it does not conform, became effective.

(bb) Planned Unit Development District. A substantial area in which development follows an approved plan integrating a combination of uses in an appropriate and unified manner.

(cc) Standard-sized automobile. An automobile whose gross area for parking purposes is greater than one hundred sixty (160) square feet.

(dd) Story. That portion of a building between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor or ceiling next above it.

(ee) Structure. Anything constructed or erected which requires location on the ground or attached to something having a location on the ground.

(ff) Use. The purpose of which land or a building is arranged, designed or intended or for which either land or a building is or may be occupied or maintained.

(gg) Yard. An open space on a lot, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided in this Chapter.
(hh) Yard, Front. A yard adjoining the front lot line and extending across the full width of the lot, the depth of which is the minimum horizontal distance between the front lot line and a line parallel thereto on the lot.

(ii) Yard, Rear. A yard extending across the full width of the lot between the most rear main building and the rear lot line. The depth of the required rear yard shall be measured horizontally from the nearest part of a main building toward the nearest point of the rear lot line.

(jj) Yard, Side. A yard between a main building and the side lot line, extending from the front yard or front lot line where no front yard is required to the rear yard. The width of the required side yard shall be measured horizontally from the nearest point of the side lot line toward the nearest part of the main building.

(kk) Bed and Breakfast. A private residence or building appurtenant or accessory to a private residence containing five (5) or fewer rooms intended or designed to be used, or which are used, rented, or hired out to be occupied, or which are occupied for sleeping purposes; provided, that the owner- proprietor occupies at least one (1) such room. No home may be licensed as a Bed and Breakfast whose physical address is the physical address of a registered sex offender.

(ll) Short-term Vacation Rental Unit. An accommodation for transient guests where, in exchange for compensation, a residential dwelling unit is provided for lodging for any term length not to exceed thirty (30) consecutive days. Such use may or may not include an on- site manager.

SOURCE: GC § 17004; amended by P.L. 10-005:1 (Feb. 2, 1969). Codified to the GCA as § 61103 of Title 21 Guam Code Ann.. Sub-items (d)(1) and (2) added by P.L. 21-049:1 (Sept. 20, 1991) and amended by P.L. 22-123:2 (May 9, 1994). Subsection (p) repealed and reenacted by P.L. 28-
068:IV:76 (Sept. 30, 2005). Subsection (q)(1) added by P.L. 32-045:1 (July 5, 2013)and renumbered to (kk) by the Compiler. Subsection (kk)
amended by P.L. 33-165:3 (June 30, 2016). Subsection (kk) added by P.L.
33-165:4 (June 30, 2016), renumbered to (ll) by the Compiler.

2020 NOTE: Past publications of the GCA erroneously designated subsection (ff) for the definitions of both Use and Yard; and the numberingerror continued to subsequent provisions. The numbering error has been corrected in this publication, and corrections have been made to the Source annotation.

NOTE: The definition for standard-size automobile in subsection (d)(1) and the definition for compact automobile in subsection (g) are identical: “”An automobile whose gross area for parking purposes is one hundred sixty (160) square feet or less.””