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School. A private academic educational institution, including:

boarding school

high school

community college, college, or university

military academy

elementary, middle and junior high schools

School – Specialized Education and Training. A private academic educational institution, providing specialized education/training. Examples include the following:

art school

establishments providing courses by mail

ballet and other dance school

language school

business, secretarial and vocational

music school

computers and electronics school

professional school (law, medicine, etc.)

drama school

seminaries/religious ministry training facility

driver education school

Also includes facilities, institutions and conference centers that offer specialized programs in personal growth and development, such as fitness, environmental awareness, arts, communications, and management. Does not include pre-schools and child day care facilities (see "Child Day Care Facilities"). See also the definition of "Studios - Art, Dance, Martial Arts, Music, etc." for smaller-scale facilities offering specialized instruction.

Scrap and Dismantling Yard. Outdoor establishments primarily engaged in assembling, breaking up, sorting, and the temporary storage and distribution of recyclable or reusable scrap and waste materials, including auto wreckers engaged in dismantling automobiles for scrap, and the incidental wholesale or retail sales of parts from those vehicles. Includes light and heavy processing facilities for recycling (see the definitions above). Does not include: places where these activities are conducted entirely within buildings; secondhand stores; the sale of operative used cars; or landfills or other waste disposal sites.

Short-Term Vacation Rental. A dwelling, part of a dwelling, or dwelling as an accessory or secondary unit furnished for compensation for a period of less than 30 days. Meals may also be included. Does not include room rental for 30 days or more, which is separately defined (see “Rooming, Lodging, or Boarding House”).

Setback. The required distance by which a structure, parking area, or other development feature must be separated from a property line, other structure, development feature (e.g. back of sidewalk, or curb) or street center line.

Setback, Front. The required area extending across the full width of a site measured from the front property line, street plan line, or access easement to the primary structure. The depth of the front setback is measured as the minimum horizontal distance between the front property line, street plan line, or access easement and a line parallel thereto with the required minimum distance determined by the development standards for the applicable zoning district.

Setback, Rear. The required area extending across the full width of a site measured from the rear lot line and a structure. The depth of a rear setback is measured as the minimum horizontal distance between the rear property line and a line parallel thereto with the required minimum distance determined by the development standards for the applicable zoning district.

Setback, Side. The required area extending from the front property line, street plan line, or access easement to the rear property line. The width of a side setback is the minimum horizontal distance between an interior side property line and a line parallel thereto with the required minimum distance determined by the development standards for the applicable zoning district.

Setback, Street Side. The required area extending from the front property line, street plan line, or access easement to the rear property line. The width of a street side setback is the minimum horizontal distance between the street side property line and a line parallel thereto with the required minimum distance determined by the development standards for the applicable zoning district for a corner or reverse corner lot.

Sports and Entertainment Assembly Facility. A large-scale indoor or outdoor facility accommodating spectator-oriented sports, concerts, and other entertainment activities. Examples of this land use include amphitheaters, race tracks, stadiums and coliseums. May also include commercial facilities customarily associated with the above uses, including bars and restaurants, gift shops, video game arcades, etc.

Storage - Warehouse, Indoor Storage. Facilities for the storage of commercial goods of any nature. Includes cold storage. Does not include storage or mini-storage facilities offered for rent or lease to the general public. (see also “Wholesaling and Distribution” and “Truck or Freight Terminal”).

Storage - Outdoor Storage Yard. The open storage of various materials outside of a structure other then fencing, either as an accessory or principal use.

Street. A public or private right-of-way which provides a public means of access to abutting property. The term “street” shall include avenue, drive, circle, road, parkway, boulevard, highway, thoroughfare, or any other similar term, but not alley. The term shall include the total width of the dedicated right-of-way.

Structure. Anything constructed or erected which requires location on the ground or which is attached to something having location on the ground, excluding vehicles designed and used only for the transportation of people or goods, a swimming pool or spa, a fence, or a wall used as a fence.

Structure, Accessory. A building or structure normally subordinate, and the use of which is incidental, to the primary use of the site.

Structure, Accessory Detached. An accessory building or structure with a minimum separation from a primary structure or building of at least three feet. For purposes of measurement, roof eaves and overhangs, bays, balconies, and other projections shall be considered points of reference. For the purposes of this code, any structure not meeting the separation requirement is considered attached to the primary structure and is subject to the development standards for the primary structure.

Studio - Art, Dance, Martial Arts, Music, etc. Small scale facilities, typically accommodating one group of students at a time, in no more than one instructional space. Larger facilities are included under the definition of "Schools - Specialized education and training." Examples of these facilities include: individual and group instruction and training in the arts; production rehearsal; photography, and the processing of photographs produced only by users of the studio facilities; martial arts training studios; gymnastics, yoga and similar instruction; and aerobics and gymnastics studios with no other fitness facilities or equipment.

Supportive Housing. Housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by the Target Population, and that is linked to an onsite or offsite service that assists the supportive housing resident in retaining the housing, improving his or her health status, and maximizing his or her ability to live and, when possible, work in the community. Supportive housing is a residential use subject only to those restrictions that apply to other residential uses of the same type in the same zone.

Swimming Pool. A pool, pond, land, or open tank intended for swimming or recreational bathing that contains water over 18 inches deep. “Swimming pool” includes in-ground and above ground pools, hot tubs and spas and portable spas and non-portable wading pools.