Zoning Dictionary

Category: Commercial Uses

Efficiency Unit

A part of a hotel or motel which contains sleeping facilities, private sanitary facilities and cooking facilities which are located in not more than two rooms, excluding the washroom.

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Electricity Generation – Community Scale

Systems or equipment that generate electricity from renewable sources for an immediate community, or connection into a distributed energy network, including: photovoltaic systems; biomass; wind generation; and hydro generation.

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Entertainment (live)

Any act, play, revue, pantomime, scene, dance act, or song and dance act, or any combination thereof, performed by one or more persons whether or not they are compensated for the performance.

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Entertainment Use

A building, structure or lot used or intended to be used for the purpose of night clubs, cabarets, cinemas, theaters and the like.

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Escort Agency

A person or business association which furnishes, offers to furnish, or advertises to furnish escorts as one of its primary business purposes, for a fee, tip or other consideration.

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Exotic Cabaret

An establishment which features topless or bottomless dancers, go-go dancers, exotic dancers, strippers, male or female impersonators, or similar entertainers and where the sale of beer, wine or intoxicating liquor for consumption on the premises may or may not be permitted.

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Factory Outlet

A building or part of a building where the products manufactured by the industry are kept for wholesale or retail sale, and shall not exceed fifteen percent of the floor area of the building or portion of the building within which the permitted industrial use is located. A building or part of a building, accessory […]

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Family Day Care Home

Care provided for not more than eight (8) children, in the provider’s home, on a daily basis rather than an overnight basis; Premises in which either day care alone, or in combination with parental care, is provided or offered at any time, to not more than eight (8) children of whom not more than five […]

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Fast Food Outlet

A building in which food or beverages are offered for sale to the public solely for off-site consumption.

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Fast Food Retail Outlet

A building or structure or part thereof where broiled, fried or prepared food is offered for sale or sold to the public for consumption on or off the premises and includes a dairy bar, refreshment room or stand, but does not include a full-service restaurant where meals are served to customers at tables on the […]

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