Zoning Dictionary

Letter: I

Imageability

The quality of a place that makes it recognizable and memorable. A place has high imageability when specific physical elements and their arrangement evoke distinct images or positive feelings. Imageability is a measure of how easily a physical object, word or environment will evoke a clear mental image in the mind of any person observing […]

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Impervious Area

Impervious area An area with a surface which prevents or significantly retards the soakage of water into the ground. Includes: roofs; paved areas including driveways and sealed/compacted metal parking areas, patios; sealed and compacted metal roads; and layers engineered to be impervious such as compacted clay. Excludes: grass and bush areas; gardens and other vegetated […]

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Impervious Surfaces

Any material, such as concrete, asphalt, brick, or metal, constructed or erected on landscaped or natural buffer areas which impedes the percolation of water into the ground.

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Impounding Yard

A place to which disabled motor vehicles, and motor vehicles or other mobile equipment impounded for a breach of the law, may be taken or towed and stored temporarily until reclaimed, but does not include an automobile service station, gas bar, public garage, junk yard, salvage yard or wrecker’s yard.

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Improved Public Road

A road or highway under the jurisdiction of the Corporation or a private road within a registered Plan of Condominium which is maintained so as to allow normal vehicular access to adjacent properties and which, in the case of a Township Road, is a road for which the Township receives construction and maintenance subsidies from […]

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In-Vessel Composting

A process in which compostable material is enclosed in a drum, silo or similar structure where the environmental conditions are controlled and the compostable material is aerated and mechanically agitated to allow for accelerated decomposition.

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Incineration Facility

The use of land or buildings for the disposal of waste by burning.

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Incinerator

A device used to burn waste substances and in which all the combustion factors – temperature, retention time, turbulence and combustion air, can be controlled. Means a combustion unit that uses controlled flame combustion for the thermal destruction of solid waste, including municipal waste, industrial waste, hazardous waste, special medical waste, or sewage sludge. Any […]

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Increase in Intensity

An increase in the concentration of activity on a property including an increase in gross floor area or the number of dwelling units, expanded hours of operation, provision of additional services, and the addition of the sale of alcoholic beverages. In the case of nonconforming uses, any increase above and beyond the status quo is […]

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Indigeneous Species

Organisms that occur naturally in a particular area instead of being introduced directly or indirectly by human activity.

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