Zoning Dictionary

Letter: P

Post-carbon Economy

An economy where renewable energy sources will ultimately replace fossil fuels as the primary energy source in economic activities. Improved technology, greater efficiency, lower costs and use of renewable energy sources will help in the reduction of carbon fuel usage to achieve a post carbon economy.

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Potentially Contaminated Land

Land: a) used or known to have been used for industry or mining; b) used or known to have been used for the storage of chemicals, gas, waste or liquid fuel (other than minor above-ground storage that is ancillary to another use of the land); or c) where a known past or present activity or […]

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Practicable

Capable of being done after taking into consideration cost, existing technology, and logistics in light of overall project purposes.

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Pre-Fabricated Home

A building which is capable of being occupied exclusively as a dwelling and which is comprised of pre-fabricated components which are manufactured off-site, transported and erected on a lot.

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Preservation, Building

Retaining the use and the exterior portion of an existing structure without substantial alteration. A change of the architectural style or scale of the structure or a change in the predominant use of the structure shall be deemed to be a substantial alteration.

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Primary Metals Plant

A smelter, blast furnace, cupola, foundry, mill or other factory used for the production of primary iron or steel, including pig-iron, ferro-alloys and rolled products, or of babbitt metal or other primary non-ferrous metals.

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Primary Processing

The washing, cleaning, screening, sifting, sorting, grading and crushing of raw material grown or extracted in or from the earth but excludes any manufacturing, fabricating, assembling or production of goods or other materials from or out of such raw material.

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Principal or Main Building

Any building which is carried on the principal purpose for which the building lot is used and shall include a barn or silo used on conjunction with a farm. A building which: a) occupies the major or central portion of a lot, b) is the chief or main building on a lot, or c) constitutes, […]

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Print Shop

A retail establishment that provides duplicating services using photocopy, blueprint, and offset printing equipment, including collating of booklets and reports.

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Printing Establishment

An establishment used for blueprinting, engraving, stereotyping, electro-typing, printing or typesetting, and shall include a duplicating shop and a letter-shop.

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