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A business or activity with no reported sales or activity for a period of at least 180 days. Exceptions are temporary closures for repairs, alterations, or other similar situations.
A use, separate building, or structure, normally incidental, subordinate, exclusively devoted to and located on the same lot as the principal use, building or structure but does not include a building or structure used for human habitation. A use subordinate and naturally, customarily and normally incidental to and exclusively devoted to a main use of […]
A detached building located on the same lot as an existing building, the use of which is incidental or secondary to that of the main building and which is not used for human habitation and includes a private garage or implement shed. A building which is an adjunct or accompaniment to the main building. A […]
Annual cost of housing including mortgage, principal and interest payments as amortized over 25 years with a 25 percent down payment or gross rent that does not exceed 30 percent of gross annual household income. Housing for which the occupant(s) is/are generally paying no more than 30 percent of household income for gross housing costs, […]
An estate, interest, easement or any legal right in or over land which grants or conveys the right to allow development to occur in the airspace over the land. The ownership or control of all land, property, and that area of space at and above a horizontal plane over the ground surface of land used […]
A positive element or elements that contribute to the overall character or enjoyment of an area. For example, open land, trees, historic buildings and the inter-relationship between them, or less tangible factors such as tranquillity. Includes residential amenity which takes into account factors like privacy and open space.
The process by which nonconforming uses and structures may be discontinued or made to conform to requirements of the ordinance at the end of a specified period of time.
An additional use essential for the proper and/or effective functioning of another use. A use which supports the dominant use of a building located on the same lot and which does not diminish the ability of the dominant use to fulfill its mandate.
An acute angle formed from the horizontal by a line extending from the center line of the street at a grade at right angles to the center line of the street or to a tangent to the center line of a curved street, over a lot abutting on such street and touching a building or […]
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