Zoning Dictionary

Letter: A

Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance

An ordinance requiring that certain public facilities, mainly utilities and roads, must be in place, planned for, or provided as a precondition of development permission.

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Adjacent

means to lie near, close to, or in the vicinity of.

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Adjacent Land

Land contiguous to an identified natural feature or function or resource.

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Adjoining

means to touch, abut, or border on, as distinguished from adjacent.

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Administrative Office

An establishment primarily engaged in overall management and general supervisory functions such as executive, personnel, finance, legal, and sales activities, performed in a single location or building for other branches or divisions of the same company.

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Adult Bookstore

A commercial establishment which has devoted a substantial or significant portion of its business to the sale, rental or any form of consideration, of any one or more of the following: Books, magazines, periodicals or other printed matter, photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, video tapes, or other video reproductions, slides, or other visual representation […]

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Adult Cabaret

Any place or establishment which features dancers, go-go dancers, exotic dancers, male or female impersonators or similar entertainers or any live entertainment and which excludes minors or from which minors are prohibited by stature or ordinance, and whether or not any such business is licensed to sell alcoholic beverages. A nightclub, bar, restaurant, or similar […]

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Adult Care Residential Facility

A dwelling or similar building of a residential character which is used or intended to be used to provide housing and care for five or fewer unrelated ambulatory persons who are eighteen years of age or older and who are elderly, physically ill or inform, physically handicapped, mentally retarded or who have a mental handicap […]

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Adult Congregate Living Facility

Any building or buildings, section of a building, or distinct part of a building, residence, private home, boarding home, home for the aged, or other place, whether operated for profit or not, which undertakes through its ownership or management to provide, for a period exceeding 24 hours, housing, food service, and one or more personal […]

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Adult Day Care Centre

That portion of a residence wherein the owner or occupier of the residence provides accommodations for adults, for temporary care on a daily basis without overnight accommodations. A facility where, for a portion of a twenty-four (24) hour day, functionally-impaired adults that are not related to the owner or operator of the facility are supervised […]

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