Zoning Dictionary

Letter: T

Trailer, Travel or Tent

Any trailer which is designed to be temporarily utilized for living, shelter and sleeping accommodation, with or without cooking facilities and which has running gear and towing equipment permanently attached and a current license and is not permanently affixed to the ground. A vehicular portable structure designed for short-term occupancy to be used for travel, […]

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Train Station

The use of land, or building, or structure for loading and unloading freight and passengers on and off trains including ticket offices, restaurant, luggage checking facilities and similar uses.

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Transfer of Development Rights (TDR)

A voluntary, incentive- based program that allows landowners to sell development rights from their land to a developer or other interested party who then can use these rights to increase the density of development at another designated location.

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Transient Sales Lot

Any area that is used exclusively for the sale of or taking of orders for any merchandise where such sales or order-taking are not part of the operation of an established business or where no permanent physical structures or facilities are used as integral parts of the sales or order-taking operations.

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Transit-oriented development (TOD)

A planning and design strategy that promotes urban development that is compact, mixed-use, pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly, and closely integrated with mass transit by clustering jobs, housing, services, and amenities around public transport stations. A mixed-use area of residential and commercial uses designed to maximize access to public transit, incorporating design elements that require a certain […]

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Transition Design

The practice of designing things that take a significant period of time to achieve, requiring a number of steps.

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Transitional Care Home

A facility in which individuals live for a short period while receiving physical, social or psychological therapy and counseling to assist them in overcoming physical or emotional problems.

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Transitional Housing

A building where housing linked to supportive services is offered, usually for a period of up to 24 months, to facilitate movement to permanent housing for persons with low incomes who may have one or more disabilities, and may include adults, emancipated minors, families with children, elderly persons, young adults aging out of the foster […]

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Transitional Lot

A specified lot or lots, adjoining a specified lot, or lots in another district.

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Transitional Use

Uses or structures permitted under the zoning ordinance, which, by their nature or level and scale of activity, act as a transition or buffer between two or more incompatible uses.

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