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The use of a building, structure or lot for the following public functions which are under the auspices of a public body: elementary and secondary schools, fire halls, parks and recreation facilities, sewer and water pumping stations and reservoirs owned by the municipality. A use providing for federal, provincial, state and municipal offices, yards, golf […]
Division of uses or activities into groups or subgroups for regulatory purposes. The Zone requirements imposed on a particular piece of property. A subsequent change in a classification is called a re-classification.
A shopping facility whereby a customer can buy or order goods from a store’s website and collect them from a local branch.
A building or part of a building used for the medical, dental, surgical or therapeutical treatment of human beings, but does not include a public or private hospital or a professional office of a doctor located in his residence. A place used for the care, diagnosis and treatment of sick, ailing, infirm or injured persons […]
An association of persons, whether incorporated or not, united by some common interest, meeting periodically for cooperation or conviviality. Club shall also mean, where the context requires, premises owned or occupied by members of such association within which the activities of the club are conducted.
A development design technique that concentrates buildings in specific areas on a site to allow the remaining land to be used for recreation, common open space, and preservation of environmentally sensitive features.
A development design technique that locates buildings in limited areas on a site to allow the remaining land to be used for a variety of open space purposes.
A grouping of individual lots or sites in close proximity, each of which or the majority of which has less land area than required for isolated individual lots, with the additional area in the cluster subdivision being devoted to open space, recreation space, car spaces and access facilities in addition to required yards.
The grouping of structures, courts, cul-de-sacs, or short streets, more closely than in conventional residential plans, in order to preserve natural site amenities and open space.
A stretch of coast, typically bounded by rock headlands, where there is no significant net loss of sediment by waves and currents.
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