Zoning Dictionary

Category: General Terms

Developer

A person who is responsible for any undertaking that requires a zoning permit, special-use permit, conditional-use permit or sign permit

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Digital Entertainment and Information Communication Technology

The use, design or development of technology to process digital information and/or deliver a broad range of digital products and services, including but not limited to business applications, data security, data storage, management and processing, entertainment and gaming, interactive educational, communications, e-commerce, social media, software and mobile applications, and may include the use of information technology and […]

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Digital Infrastructure

The physical and organisational structures required for the operation of a digital economy. (For example the installation of fibre optic broadband cabling to improve access to high speed internet)

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Disaster

Fiire, flood, wind, earthquake, or other calamity, act of God or the public enemy.

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Discretionary Uses

Uses of land, buildings, or other structures that may be permitted in a zone only at the discretion of and at the location or locations and under the conditions specified by Council and which conform to the regulations respecting lot size, frontage, coverage, floor area ratio, yards, maximum building heights, person per hectare zones, general […]

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Domestic Purposes

Those purposes for the property owner’s use and not for sale to the public.

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Elderly Person

A person sixty-five (65) years of age or older.

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Electromagnetic Fields

Invisible lines of force that are produced by the flow of electrons in a wire or electrical device.

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Eminent Domain

The legal right of government to acquire or “take” private property for public use or public purpose upon paying just compensation to the owner.

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Emission Rate

The release per unit time of air pollutants from a given source.

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