Zoning Dictionary

Letter: L

Lodge

A tourist establishment containing five or more guest rooms served by a common entrance while additional guest rooms may have a separate entrance directly from outside the building. Accessory uses may include rental cabins, accommodation for permanent staff and one or more beverage rooms, dining rooms or recreational facilities for use by the guests.

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Lodger

A person who resides with a family, is not related, and receives room, or room and board.

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Lodging Unit

Living quarters for a family that do not contain independent kitchen facilities, provided, however, that dwelling units occupied by transients on a rental or lease basis for periods of less than one week shall be construed to be lodging units even though they contain independent kitchen facilities.

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Logging

The removal or cutting of logs from harvestable timber for commercial purposes, either by selective, strip or clear-cutting operations.

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Long-term Care Facility

An institution or a distinct part of an institution which is licensed or approved to provide health care under medical supervision for twenty-four or more consecutive hours to two or more patients who are not related to the governing authority or its members by marriage, blood or adoption.

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Lot

A parcel or contiguous parcels of land in one ownership. A parcel of land with frontage on a street or road whether or not occupied by a building or structure that is in one ownership. A parcel of land fronting on a street, separate in ownership from any abutting land. A single area of land, […]

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Lot Area

The total horizontal area within the lot lines of a lot, excluding the horizontal area of such lot usually covered by water or marsh, or beyond the rim of a river bank or watercourse, or between the top and toe of the cliffs or embankment having a slope of thirty degrees or more from the […]

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Lot Area, Net

Shall mean the total horizontal area within the property lines of a lot or parcel of land after all streets and other dedications have been made.

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Lot Coverage

The percent of the lot area covered by buildings or structures excluding parking areas, driveways and walkways but including structures and buildings constructed appertaining to the lot. That percentage of the lot area covered by the perpendicular vertical projection of the area of all buildings onto a horizontal plane. That percentage of the lot area […]

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Lot Depth

The average distance between the front and rear lot lines and, in the case of a triangular lot, the perpendicular distance from the front line to the apex of the angle formed by the intersection of the side lot lines. The horizontal distance between the mid points of straight lines connecting the foremost points of […]

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