Zoning Dictionary

Category: Open Space/Recreation/Tourism

Open Space

Space suitable for recreation, gardens, or household service activities, such as clothes drying. Such space must be at least seventy-five per cent open to the sky, free of automotive traffic, parking, and undue hazard, and readily accessible by all those for whom it is required. That part of a zoning lot, including courts or yards, […]

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Open Space, Private

An outdoor area within a block usable for outdoor living activities, and may include balconies, terraces or decks but does not include any area required for the parking or maneuvering of motor vehicles.

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Organized Sports

Any athletic team play (scheduled games), by any ages, on a physically defined sports field (natural or synthetic). Includes both scheduled athletic games associated with school programs and non-school programs. Examples include T-ball, high-school football, youth baseball, and soccer clubs. Organized sports does not include practice or other unstructured play such as pick- up games […]

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Overnight Visitors

Visitors who stay at least one night in a collective or private accommodation in the place visited. This definition includes cruise passengers who arrive in a country on a cruise ship and return to the ship each night to sleep on board even through the ship remains in port for several days. Also included in […]

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Park

An area consisting largely of open space, which may include a recreational area, play ground, playfield or similar use but shall not include a mobile home park, a campground or trailer park. An area permanently devoted to recreational uses and generally characterized by its natural, historic or landscaped features, and used for both passive and […]

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Park Model Trailer

A recreational unit that conforms to the appropriate Series of Standards for Park Model Trailers at the time of manufacture.

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Path

A cleared way for pedestrians and/or bicycles that may or may not be paved or otherwise improved.

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Path System, Community

A route constructed or under reserve which includes a path (cycle path) open to the public for the use of non-motorized traffic, such as bicycles, pedestrians and joggers and for motorized wheel chairs.

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Pavilion

A light building in a park, or other open area used as shelter, a building on a sports ground for use by players and spectators, or an ornamental building for public entertainment.

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Personal Recreation Space

Recreation space outside a building located adjacent to and directly accessible from a dwelling unit, which is provided for the exclusive use of the occupants of the dwelling unit, and includes a private patio, courtyard, garden terrace or balcony.

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