Landing Strip
A strip of ground used or capable of being used for the landing and take-off of aircraft.
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Zoning Dictionary
Category: Transportation/Roads/Vehicles
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Lane
A public or private right-of-way which affords a secondary means of access to the lots abutting thereon. A subsidiary thoroughfare providing access from within a lot, primarily from parking or loading spaces to a public street. A subsidiary public thoroughfare for the sole use of pedestrians and connecting public streets, open space or public buildings. […]
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Level of Service, Traffic
A scale that measures the amount of vehicle traffic that a roadway or intersection can accommodate, based on such factors as maneuverability, driver dissatisfaction, and delay. Level of service a. Indicates a relatively free flow of traffic, with little or no limitation on vehicle movement or speed. Level of service b. Describes a steady flow […]
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Light Rail Line
A public rail transit line that usually operates at grade level and that provides high capacity, regional level transit service. A light rail line is designed to share a street right-of-way although it may also use a separate right-of-way or easement
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Living Street
A mixed-use pedestrian street that may provide social space, greenspace and play areas. In many cases, living streets allow low speed vehicle access with the clear rule that pedestrians have absolute priority. Traffic calming is often implemented that is pedestrian friendly.
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Major Arterial Road
A highway or public roadway the purpose of which is to expedite the movement of through traffic to major traffic generators and from community to community, and primarily, to serve the adjacent land, to collect and distribute traffic from freeways and expressways to less important arterial roads or directly to traffic destinations.
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Maneuvering Space
An open space in a parking area which is immediately adjacent to a parking space, is used for and/or is necessary for turning, backing, or driving forward a motor vehicle into such parking space but is not used for the parking or storage of motor vehicles. The space entirely on private property required for maneuvering […]
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Motor Home
A self-propelled vehicle capable of being used for the temporary living, sleeping, eating or accommodation of persons.
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Motor Vehicle
An automobile, truck, motorcycle and any other vehicle propelled or driven otherwise than by muscular power, but does not include the cars of electric or steam railways, or other motor vehicles running only upon rails, or a motorized snow vehicle, traction engine, farm tractor, self-propelled implement of husbandry or road building machine.
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