Zoning Dictionary

Category: Institutional Uses

Medical Waste, Infectious

That portion of potentially infectious biomedical waste which contains pathogens (living agents capable of producing disease) with sufficient virulence (disease producing power) and quantity so that exposure to the waste by a susceptible host could result in an infectious disease.

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Medical/Dental Clinic

A business office used extensively by members of the medical or dentistry professions.

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Military and Policy Training Centre

Includes outdoor facilities such as shooting ranges, driving circuits, obstacle courses and equipment testing areas and may also include as an ancillary or accessory use indoor facilities such as a training centre, place of assembly or research and development centre.

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Morgue

A place for the storage of human bodies prior to autopsy, burial or release to survivors.

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Museum

A building or buildings used, or to be used, for the preservation of a collection of paintings and/or other works of art, and/or of objects of natural history, and/or of mechanical, scientific and/or philosophical inventions, instruments, models and/or designs and dedicated or to be dedicated to the recreation of the public, together with any libraries, […]

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Neighbourhood Clinic

A building or part thereof used in the professional practice of not more than three doctors, dentists or drugless practitioners for the purpose of consultation, diagnosis or treatment but shall not include a pharmacy or laboratory accessory to the clinic.

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Neighbourhood Health Centre

A clinic organized as a voluntary, nonprofit enterprises to provide health-care services to a broad socioeconomic mix of patients within a specific service area under the review and approval of the appropriate regulating authority.

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Neighbourhood Rehabilitation Home

A building or portion thereof used for boarding or other residential accommodation and penal or other mandatory supervision or treatment of not more than twelve (12) persons in which supervision or treatment is not provided to any persons not resident in the rehabilitation home. Means a building or portion of a building used for the […]

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Nursing Home

A building in which the proprietor supplies for hire or gain, lodging with or without meals and, in addition provides nursing, medical, or similar care and treatment, if required and includes a rest home, or convalescent home, and any other establishment required to operate under the appropriate statute. Any premises in which persons are cared […]

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Overnight Shelter

A facility providing temporary lodging on a daily basis, with or without meals, primarily for indigent, needy, homeless, or transient persons.

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