Zoning Dictionary

Category: Building/Structure

Screening Device

A barrier of stone, brick, pierced brick or block, uniformly colored wood, or other permanent material of equal character, density and acceptable design, at least six (6) feet in height, where the solid area equals at least sixty-five percent (65%) of the wall surface, including an entrance gate or gates, or foliage of an acceptable […]

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Screening Shrubs

Evergreen shrubs that maintain their foliage year round.

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Screening, Solid

A device or materials used to conceal one element of a development from other elements or from adjacent or contiguous development. Screening may include one or a combination of the following materials of sufficient mass to be opaque or that shall become opaque after twelve (12) months and which shall be maintained in an opaque […]

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Sill Height

The vertical height of a window sill above the finished floor level which it serves. To access the rest of this content, you must purchase a...
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Solar Collector

Any device relying upon direct solar radiation that is employed in the collection of solar radiation for heating and/or cooling of a structure or building or water. A device or combination of devices, structure or part of a device, or structure that transforms direct solar energy into thermal, chemical, or electrical energy and that contributes […]

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Solar Energy System

A complete design or assembly consisting of a solar energy collector, an energy storage facility (where used) and components for the distribution of transformed energy. Passive solar energy systems are included in this definition, but not to the extent that they fulfill other functions such as structural and recreational. Equipment that directly converts and then […]

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Solar Energy System, Passive

A solar energy system that uses natural and architectural components to collect and store solar energy without using any external mechanical power.

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Solar Screen

Fixed framed panels of dense mesh mounted flush on or projecting from the exterior of a window or over skylights, doors, and other fenestrations, with light transmission percentages that range from sixty percent (60%) or more.

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Solar Skyspace

The space between a solar energy collector and the sun which must be free of obstructions that shade the collector to an extent which precludes its cost-effective operation.

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Stepback

A design plan that recesses from the front line of a structure the front of the rise of the upper stories of the same structure in a step-like manner.

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