Zoning Dictionary

Letter: B

Biomedical Waste Treatment Facility, Off-site Potentially Infection

A facility which is not an accessory use to any hospital, clinic, convalescent or nursing home, or other generator of potentially-infectious biomedical waste that stores, processes, neutralizes, reclaims or treats potentially infectious biomedical waste by any method; including but not limited to incineration, steam, sterilization, thermal inactivation, chemical disinfection, microwaving and irradiation sterilization. This definition […]

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Bioretention

Mean a process where contaminants and sedimentation are removed from stormwater runoff by collecting stormwater into a treatment area that consists of a grass buffer strip, sand bed, ponding area, organic layer or mulch layer, planting soil, and plants for exfiltration into the underlying soils.

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Bioswale

A bioswale is a landscape element designed to capture storm water run-off from adjacent surface areas. It has inverted sloped sides that allow rainwater to drain into it and contains vegetation and mulch designed to remove pollutants before the water infiltrates into the soil.

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Blank Wall

Any wall which has no openings such as windows or doors.

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Block

All land fronting on one side of a street between the nearest streets, intersecting, meeting or crossing the aforesaid street. All of the property bounded by streets, rights-of-way, and water features, but is not divided or separated in any way by streets, rights-of-way, or water features.

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Block Face or Street Block

That portion of a block consisting of all of the lots fronting on a single street. The land fronting one side of a street between streets that intersect, meet or cross the aforesaid street. Means a group of adjacent lots or parcels whose front lot lines all face a common abutting street and that are […]

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Block Frontage

All of the property fronting on one side of a street that is between intersecting or intercepting streets, or that is between a street and a water feature, or end of a dead end street. An intercepting street determines only the boundary of the block frontage on the side of the street which it intercepts

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Blood Relative

A father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, grandfather, grandmother, great grandfather, great grandmother, grandson or granddaughter.

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Blue Space

An urban design term for visible water.

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Boarder

A person other than the lessee, tenant, owner or person related thereto, to whom meals may or may not be provided and where lodging is provided for compensation. An individual other than a member of the family occupying the dwelling unit or a part thereof who, for a consideration, is furnished sleeping accommodations and may […]

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