Zoning Dictionary

Category: Commercial Uses

Accessory Advertising Use

Use of land, or a building exterior or of a structure or thing for the advertising or promoting by visible or other means of a product, service, place or event which is for sale, for rent, available, held, assembled, grown or manufactured on the same lot.

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Accessory Office Use

A business or professional office which is an accessory use and which occupies less than fifty percent of the gross floor area of the premises with which it is associated.

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Accommodation Units

Any room or group of rooms designed to provide accommodation to the travelling or recreational public including a room in a hotel, motel, resort or tourist establishment, a rental cottage or cabin or a tent or a trailer site. A room or suite of rooms used or maintained as part of a tourist resort for […]

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Administrative Office

An establishment primarily engaged in overall management and general supervisory functions such as executive, personnel, finance, legal, and sales activities, performed in a single location or building for other branches or divisions of the same company.

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Adult Bookstore

A commercial establishment which has devoted a substantial or significant portion of its business to the sale, rental or any form of consideration, of any one or more of the following: Books, magazines, periodicals or other printed matter, photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, video tapes, or other video reproductions, slides, or other visual representation […]

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Adult Cabaret

Any place or establishment which features dancers, go-go dancers, exotic dancers, male or female impersonators or similar entertainers or any live entertainment and which excludes minors or from which minors are prohibited by stature or ordinance, and whether or not any such business is licensed to sell alcoholic beverages. A nightclub, bar, restaurant, or similar […]

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Adult Entertainment Parlour

Any premises or part thereof in which is provided services of which a principal feature or characteristic is the nudity or partial nudity of any person. Any premises or part thereof in which is provided, in pursuance of a trade, calling, business or occupation, goods, including books, magazines, pictures, slides, film, phonograph records, prerecorded magnetic […]

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Adult Motion Picture Theatre

An establishment, which shall be in an enclosed building, and which presents motion picture films, video cassettes, cable television, or any other such visual media, distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas as hereinafter defined, for observation by patrons therein.

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Adult Store

An establishment having as a substantial or significant portion of its stock in trade, books, photographs, pictures, magazines, and other periodicals or materials which are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas, as defined under Cabaret.

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Adult Uses

Adult Bookstore: An establishment having, as a substantial or significant portion of its stock-in trade, books, magazines and other periodicals which are distinguished or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas, as defined below, or an establishment with a segment or section devoted to the sale or display of such material. Adult Motion […]

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