Zoning Dictionary

Category: Sensitive Uses

Activities Sensitive to Air Discharges

Activities sensitive to reduced air quality. Includes: dwellings; care centres; hospitals; healthcare facilities with an overnight stay facility; educational facilities; marae; community facilities; entertainment facilities; and visitor accommodation.

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Activities Sensitive to Hazardous Facilities and Infrastructure

Activities sensitive to hazardous facilities and infrastructure are: visitor accommodation; care centres; hospitals; healthcare facilities; educational facilities; tertiary education facilities; community facilities; marae; retirement villages; organised sport and recreation; recreation facilities; entertainment facilities; dwellings; and boarding houses.

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Activities Sensitive to Noise

Any dwelling, visitor accommodation, boarding house, marae, papakāinga, integrated residential development, retirement village, supported residential care, care centres, lecture theatres in tertiary education facilities, classrooms in education facilities and healthcare facilities with an overnight stay facility.

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Lighting, Shielded

Means a fixture that is shielded in a manner so that light rays emitted by the fixture, either directly from the lamp or indirectly from the fixture or a reflector, are projected below a horizontal plane running through the lowest point on the fixture where light is emitted.  

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Lighting, Unshielded

Means a fixture that allows light, either directly from the lamp or indirectly from the fixture or a reflector, to be emitted above the horizontal plane running through the lowest point on the fixture where light is emitted.

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Noise Attenuation

Reduction of the level of a noise source using a substance, material, or surface, like  earth berms and/or solid concrete walls.

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Noxious

When used with reference to any use or activity in respect of any land, building or structure or a use or activity which, from its nature or from the manner of carrying on same, creates or is liable to create, by reason or destructive gas or fumes, dust, objectionable odor, noise or vibration or unsightly […]

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Quiet Area

  Areas of the City identified under the Environmental Noise (Scotland) Regulations 2006, where environmental noise quality is good and should be protected against an increase in noise. In Glasgow, Quiet Areas are exclusively...
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Separation Distance

The shortest distance between buildings on abutting lots.

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