S. - Definitions.

The following definitions are provided to complement the definitions found in the Land Development Code.

Awning: A sheltering screen, usually of canvas fabric, supported and stiffened by a rigid frame, extending over or before any place which has windows, doors, outside walks or the like, and providing shelter or protection against the weather.

Big Box Development: A retail and/or wholesale commercial establishment (store) with more than seventy-five thousand (75,000) square feet of gross floor area, which may include a home improvement center or a membership warehouse club.

Bike Lane: A portion of a roadway which has been designated by signing and paving markings for the preferential or exclusive use by bicycles.

Block: A group of lots existing within well-defined and fixed boundaries, usually being an area surrounded by streets or other physical barriers and having an assigned number, letter, or other name through which it is identified.

Block Face: That portion of a block which abuts an individual street.

Common Area: Any part of a development designed and intended to be used in common by the owners, residents or tenants of the development. These areas may contain such complementary structures and improvements as are necessary and appropriate for the benefit and enjoyment of the owners, residents or tenants.

Community Center: A building used for recreational, social, educational and cultural activities, usually owned and operated by a public or non-profit group or agency.

Connection (Vehicular): A driveway, street, turnout, or other means of providing for property access to or from a street or another property. For the purpose of access, two one-way connections to a property may constitute a single connection.

Drive-Through Facility: Any use which by design, physical facilities service or procedure encourages or permits customers to receive services, obtain goods or be entertained while remaining in their motor vehicles. This term includes "drive-in" and "drive-up" facilities.

Dwellings, Attached (Townhouse/Row house): A housing unit which is subdivided into one or two family housings, each of which has at least its own front or rear yard and is attached to abutting housings by approved masonry party or partition walls, thus creating distinct and non-communicating one or two family housings. For the purpose of this code, attached dwellings are classified as multi-family.

Dwellings, Multi-Family: Any group of three or more housing units occupying a single building site, whether composed of one or more than one principal building.

Easement: Any strip of land for public or private utilities, drainage, sanitation, access, or other specified uses having limitations, the title to which shall remain in the name of the property owner, subject to the right of use designated in the reservation of the servitude.

Façade: Exterior wall of a structure.

Facade - Primary: The exterior wall(s) of a structure that face a public right-of-way. A building on a corner lot has two primary facades.

Façade - Secondary: The exterior wall(s) of a structure that do not face a public right-of-way.

Lot Frontage, Primary: That side of the lot abutting a street along the narrow dimension of the lot.

Lot Frontage, Secondary: That side of the lot abutting a street which is not the primary frontage.

Lot Line (or Property Line): Any legal boundary of a lot. Where applicable, the lot line may coincide with the right-of-way line.

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

Museum (or Art Gallery): A building or structure used for the housing and display of historical objects, artifacts and visual arts.

Parapet: A low, protective wall constructed as the continuation of the exterior wall to a building and placed along the entire perimeter of the roof of a building.

Parking Aisle: An area within a parking facility intended to provide ingress and egress to parking spaces.

Parking, off-street: An independently accessible off-street storage space, either outside or within a structure, for the parking of motor vehicles.

Parking Facility: Any off-street area or structure for the parking of motor vehicles.

Parking Lot: An off-street, ground-level area for the parking of motor vehicles.

Pedestrian Access: An improved surface which connects the public right-of- way with private property or a building entrance.

Principal Use or Structure: The primary or predominant use or structure of any lot, as distinguished from accessory uses and structures.

Primary Street: The main street with which a building fronts regardless of the postal address of the property.

Public Use: This shall include community centers, meeting halls, recreation centers, clubhouses, schools, public libraries, religious institutions museums and galleries. Performing arts auditoriums and facilities, and municipal or government buildings.

Public Open Space Use: A landscaped or naturalistic area used primarily for passive recreation, active recreation, visual amenity or for purposes of environmental conservation. These uses include: parks, plazas, squares, greenspaces, pedestrian and bicycle pathways, outdoor recreation facilities, wetlands, woodlands, and native plant community conservation areas and preserves, public parks, and stormwater facilities that are visual amenities. An Open Space Use is accessible to all residents. An Open Space Use does not include uses requiring membership. An Open Space Use may be privately owned, owned in common, or publicly owned.

Recreation, Indoor: Any premises (whether public or private) where the principal use is the provision of indoor amusements, sports, games, athletic facilities, or other indoor recreational facilities and/or services except shooting ranges.

Recreation, Outdoor: Any premises (whether public or private) where the principal use is the provision of outdoor amusements, sports, games, athletic facilities, or other outdoor recreational facilities and/or services except golf courses. For the purpose of this code, this term includes miniature golf, go-cart tracks, and water slides; but does not include golf courses.

Retail, General: Any premises where the principal use is the sale of merchandise in small quantities, in broken lots or parcels, not in bulk, for the use or consumption by the immediate purchaser. This shall include but shall not be limited to apparel, shoes, appliances, art supplies, automotive supplies, camera and photography supplies, furniture, guns and ammunition, hardware supplies, toys, crafts, jewelry, lawn and garden supplies, retail nurseries, musical instruments and supplies, office equipment, office supplies, paint, wallpaper, pets, stereos, televisions, florists, tobacco shops, candy, nut and confectionery shops, sporting goods, trading stamps and redemption outlets.

Retail, Neighborhood: Any establishment, or groupings thereof which generally serve the day-to-day retail needs of a residential neighborhood which shall include but shall not be limited to food stores, convenience stores, drug stores, liquor stores, newsstands, bakeries, delicatessens, dairy product stores, meat and seafood shops, and produce markets

Roof Line: The juncture of the roof and the perimeter wall of the structure.

Financial Institution (or Bank): Any premises where the principal use is concerned with such activities as banking, savings and loans, loan companies or investment companies.

School: A facility used for education or instruction in any branch of knowledge, and including the following: elementary, middle, and high schools, whether public or private; colleges, community colleges and universities, vocational and professional schools giving instruction in vocational, professional, technical, industrial, musical, dancing, dramatic, artistic, linguistic, scientific, religious or other special subjects.

Service, Business: Any establishment offering primarily services to the business community and to individuals. Such services shall include but shall not be limited to advertising agencies, blueprinting services, interior cleaning services, computer and data processing services, detective agencies and security services, insurance agencies, management consulting and public relations services, news syndicates, personnel services, photofinishing laboratories, photography, art and graphics services, financial services (other than banks), and printing services with no use or storage of noxious chemicals apparent off-site (printing services using noxious chemicals are classified as an Light Industrial)..

Service, Personal: Any establishment that primarily provides services generally involving the care of a person or a person's apparel which shall include but shall not be limited to barber shops, beauty salons, seamstress shops, shoe repair and shining shops, coin operated laundry, optician shops, tanning salons, health clubs, diet centers, nail salons, pick-up dry cleaners and pet grooming shops.

Square: A landscaped open area bounded on at least two sides by a public right-of-way. A Square shall be located adjacent to the Village Center or inside the Village Center. A Square shall provide pedestrian use, passive recreation, and visual amenity use only; active recreation uses are prohibited.

Street Wall: A wall continuing the building volume along a street to screen areas such as parking lots, and to frame public areas such as courtyards and cafes.

Theater: A building or part of a building where the principal use is the showing of motion pictures, or of dramatic musical or live performances.

Transit Centers: Places where people change between vehicles or transportation modes (i.e. bus stations, airports, train stations). The Centers may include limited support retail uses.

Transit Oriented Development: A development that makes provision for transit in the design of the site plan. The design may include provisions for bus turning radii, pavement that can support the weight of transit vehicles, limiting conflicts between pedestrians and transit vehicles and between general traffic and transit vehicles, and facilitating walking between buildings and transit stops. Other factors that may be considered include review of internal roadway and parking area, building placement, garage clearances, as well as recommendations on bus zones, shelter, awnings, lighting fixtures and other improvements.

Vehicle: Any device or conveyance for transporting persons or property over the public streets, including, but not limited to, any automobile, motorcycle, motor truck, trailer, van, semi-trailer, tractor-trailer combination and boat or boat trailer.

Vehicle Service Station: Any building, structure or land used for automotive maintenance, servicing, repair, tune-ups, car washing, or towing.

Vehicle Service, minor: A retail business selling motor vehicle fuels, related products and providing vehicle services. Body work is not permitted.

Vehicle Service, major: A retail business selling motor vehicle fuels, related products and providing vehicle services, including body work.

Vehicular Use Area: An area used for the display or parking of any and all types of vehicles and equipment, whether self-propelled or not, and all land upon which vehicles traverse the property as a function of the principal use.

Yard, Street Side: A yard extending across the side of a corner lot between the rear line of the front yard and the front line of the rear yard, and between the principal building and the street right-of-way line, and being the minimum horizontal distance between the principal building or any projections thereof other than the projections of uncovered steps, uncovered balconies or uncovered porches, to the right-of-way line.