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An ordinance requiring that certain public facilities, mainly utilities and roads, must be in place, planned for, or provided as a precondition of development permission.
A practice, or a combination of practices, that are determined to be effective, practical means (technological, economical and institutional) of preventing or reducing the amount of pollution generated by nonpoint sources to a level compatible with water quality goals. Examples of BMPs include but are not limited to road building, spoil management, channel/stream crossings, vegetation […]
The discontinuance of one land use and its replacement by a different land use.
A community food system, also known as a local food system, is a collaborative effort to integrate agricultural production with food distribution to enhance the economic, environmental, and social well-being of a particular place. Foods produced, processed, and distributed as locally as possible support a food system that preserves local farmland and fosters community economic […]
Relation of artifacts and other cultural remains to their environmental setting (including climate, hydrology, ecology, geology, etc.) to their culture, and to other time periods and cultures. The recording, analysis, and interpretation of contextual information is a primary component of archaeological research.
A person hired by another, or a business company or firm, to work for another for wages, salary, commission or other consideration. For the purpose of calculating off street parking, the term employee shall also include business owners and managers on the site.
Unless expressly provided otherwise by regulations, any organism in which any of the genes or other genetic material: have been modified by in vitro techniques; or are inherited or otherwise derived, through any number of replications, from any genes or other genetic material which has been modified by in vitro techniques. This does not apply […]
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