Zoning Dictionary

Letter: M

Median

A paved or planted area separating a street or highway into two or more lanes of opposite direction of travel.

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Medical Clinic

A building or structure where two or more members of the medical profession, dentists, chiropractors, osteopaths, and physicians or occupational therapists provide diagnosis and treatment to the general public without overnight accommodation and shall include such uses as reception areas, offices, coffee shop, consultation rooms, x-ray and minor operating rooms and a dispensary, providing that […]

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Medical Practitioner

A doctor, dentist, chiropractor, chiropodist, optometrist, oculist but shall not include a veterinarian.

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Medical Waste

That portion of potentially-infectious biomedical waste that is generated from the operation of medical programs, offices or facilities.

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Medical Waste, Infectious

That portion of potentially infectious biomedical waste which contains pathogens (living agents capable of producing disease) with sufficient virulence (disease producing power) and quantity so that exposure to the waste by a susceptible host could result in an infectious disease.

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Medical/Dental Clinic

A business office used extensively by members of the medical or dentistry professions.

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Metal Products Factory

A factory for forging, rolling, stamping or drawing (either cold or hot), casting, fabricating, grinding, turning, machining, heat-treating, galvanizing, plating, coating, annealing or other fabrication or processing of structural steel, boilers, tanks, drums or cans, machines, motors or large parts, including railway, automotive, agricultural or electrical equipment, hardware or tools, other ferrous or ferro-alloy metal […]

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Metallic Mineral

Minerals which have a high specific gravity and a metallic lustre from which metals (such as copper, nickel, or gold) are derived.

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Metes and Bounds

A system of describing and identifying land by measures (metes) and limits (bounds).

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Mezzanine

An intermediate level between the floor and ceiling of any story, and covering less than thirty-three and one-third per cent of the floor area immediately beneath. To access the rest of this content, you must purchase a...
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