Annual Town Meeting as called for in the Town Charter, in the spring.

Either a subordinate use of a building, other structure or tract of land, or a subordinate building or other structure:

For the purposes of the Adult Uses section,[1] the following definitions shall apply:

A special combination of housing, personalized supportive services, and health care designed to respond to the individual needs of those who need help in activities of daily living. Care is provided in a way that promotes maximum independence and dignity for each resident and encourages the involvement of a resident's family, neighbors and friends. It is intended as an alternative to unnecessary and costly institutionalization for those elders who cannot or choose not to live alone but do not need the skilled medical care provided by a nursing home. Facilities shall provide a range of supportive services including, but not limited to, three meals a day, housekeeping services, laundry, twenty-four-hour security and staffing, maintenance and repairs, utilities, emergency call systems in each living unit, health, exercise and recreational programs, medication management, transportation, assistance with activities of daily living such as eating, bathing, dressing, grooming and walking. For purposes of Section 8.2, a "resident" is an adult who resides in an assisted living residence and who receives housing and personal services and, when the context requires or permits, such individual's legal representative.

Any entity, however organized, whether conducted for profit or not for profit, which meets all of the following criteria: (1) provides room and board; and (2) provides, directly by employees of the entity or through arrangements with another organization which the entity may or may not control or own, assistance with activities of daily living for three or more adult residents who are not related by consanguinity or affinity to their care provided; and (3) collects payments or third party reimbursements from or on behalf of residents to pay for the provision of assistance with the activities of daily living or arranges for the same. This definition shall be in accordance with MGL c. 19D.

Any structure having a roof supported by columns or by a wall (not to include trailers) for the shelter, housing, or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels, or property of any kind.

Building height in each case to be measured vertically from the average finished grade of the ground adjoining such building to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the deck line for mansard roofs, and to the average height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip, and gambrel roofs.

Also means Director of Zoning Enforcement and Inspection, Building Commissioner, Commissioner of Buildings, and Zoning Administrator; and such individuals who may be appointed to those positions from time to time by the Board of Selectmen.

A child care center as defined in MGL c. 15D, § 1A.

The word "constructed" shall include the words "built," "erected," "reconstructed," "altered," "enlarged," "moved," and "placed."

A business establishment that includes service of food, beverages, or merchandise that is provided from a drive-up or drive-through window or other similar arrangement that allows the service of a patron while the patron remains in a vehicle, whether parked or live parked. The term shall include eating establishments and service establishments such as banks, dry cleaners, pharmacies, and the like, and automotive service stations and gasoline stations and the like.

Any building used in whole or in part as a habitation for one or more persons.

Services provided by a public service corporation, as defined in MGL c. 40A, § 3, or by governmental agencies through erection, construction, alteration, or maintenance of gas, electrical, steam, or water transmission or distribution systems and collection, communication, supply, or disposal systems whether underground or overhead, but not including PWSFs. Facilities necessary for the provision of essential services include poles, wires, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar equipment in connection therewith. Specifically excluded from the definition are buildings and overhead transmission towers. A PWSF shall not be construed as an essential service.

Any number of persons living and cooking together on the premises as a single housekeeping unit, as distinguished from a group occupying a boarding house, lodging house, or hotel.

An accessory use as defined in MGL c. 15D, § 1A.

An accessory use as defined in MGL c. 15D, § 1A.

Facility for the conducting of funerals and related activities such as embalming or a crematorium.

Direct light emitted by a luminaire at a strength and at a direction that it creates a visual nuisance or a hazard by reason of reduced vision or momentary blindness.

For the purposes of Groundwater Protection District, the following definitions shall apply:

A detached dwelling designed for and occupied by one family.

Buildings which contain one or more dwelling units consisting of a room or suite of rooms, its own bath and toilet facilities, and its own kitchen facility. A building may also include central kitchen and dining facilities for providing meals to residents thereof and their guests but not to the public and may also provide lounge rooms and recreational facilities for the common use of residents and their guests. In one of such buildings, a unit may be included for occupancy by the manager of the project and his immediate family, one room of which may be used as an office, and except for the unit to be occupied and used as aforesaid by the manager, no unit in such building shall be occupied unless at least one person is 55 years of age or over. No housing for the elderly development shall contain more than 136 independent dwelling units. Children under the age of 18 years of age are prohibited from occupying or residing in any of the elderly housing dwelling units on a permanent basis.

Materials or structures on, above, or below the ground that do not allow precipitation or surface water to penetrate directly into the soil.

An establishment as defined in MGL c. 140, § 137A.

A use engaged in processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment, packaging, incidental storage, sales and distribution of goods or products. Includes bottling plant for beverages, plant for light metal fabrication or finishing (but not including heavy punch presses and drop hammers), plant for manufacturing of electrical or electronic devices, appliances, apparatus or supplies, plant for manufacturing of medical, dental or drafting instruments, optical goods, watches or other precision instruments, and plant for manufacturing of advertising displays, awnings or shades, bakery products, beverages (nonalcoholic), brushes, books, candy, clothing or other textile products, cosmetics, jewelry, ice, leather goods, or toys.

Any institution whether conducted for charity or profit which is advertised, announced or maintained for the express or implied purpose of providing three or more individuals admitted thereto with long-term resident, nursing, convalescent or rehabilitative care; supervision and care incident to old age for ambulatory persons; or retirement home care for elderly persons. Long-term care facility shall include convalescent or nursing homes, rest homes, infirmaries maintained in towns and charitable homes for the aged, as set forth in 105 CMR 150.001.

A single tract of land held in identical ownership throughout and defined by metes, bounds or lot lines in a deed or conveyance or shown on a duly recorded plan.

In all districts, the required frontage shall be measured along a straight line connecting the points of intersection of the side lot lines with the exterior line of the frontage way. Alternatively, in single residence districts, frontage or a portion thereof may be measured along a curve, provided that only 75% of the distance along a curve may be used to compute the required frontage.

The required lot width shall be measured parallel to the line along which the required frontage is to be measured, as hereinbefore specified.

For the purposes of Section 7.3, the following definitions shall apply:

Any other retail business or service establishment supplying commodities or performing personal or consumer services primarily for residents of the surrounding neighborhood, provided that such use is similar to the uses hereinbefore listed in general character, extent of business hours, number of persons or cars to be attracted, and in effect on adjacent property and improvements (but not including any use specifically listed herein in a less restricted district, nor any use whose stock in trade consists primarily of large bulky objects not normally subject to being carried away by the customer on his person or in his automobile).

For the purposes of Section 6.5, the following definitions shall apply:

Any individual, any entity, or any combination of individuals, entities, or both individuals and entities.

Any of the following personal or consumer service establishments: barber or beauty shop, collection station for laundry or dry cleaning, frozen food locker, hand or self-service laundry, photographic studio, shoe or hat repair shop, shop for custom work by a dressmaker, milliner or tailor.

Buildings designed as an architectural unit, that only contain such uses as are specifically allowed in the General Business District, provided that at least 50% of the total floor area is devoted to retail store use (in contradistinction to use as a consumer service establishment, restaurant, office, or amusement).

A lot, together with all buildings, structures, and uses thereon.

For the purposes of the Siting of Radio Telecommunications Facilities section,[2] the following definitions shall apply:

Any of the following consumer, professional or commercial service establishments: bicycle repair shop, television or household appliance repair shop, typewriter repair shop.

Those facilities used primarily for research, development and/or testing of innovative information, concepts, methods, processes, materials, or products. This can include the design, development, and testing of biological, chemical, electrical, magnetic, mechanical, and/or optical components in advance of product manufacturing. The accessory development, fabrication, and light manufacturing of prototypes, or specialized machinery and devices integral to research or testing may be associated with these uses, but excluding laboratories categorized as Level 4 by the National Institutes of Health.

A building, or portion thereof, containing tables and/or booths for at least 2/3 of its legal capacity, which is designed, intended and used for the indoor sales and consumption of food prepared on the premises, except that food may be consumed outdoors in premises designed for dining purposes, which are adjuncts to the main indoor restaurant facility.

Store for the conduct of a retail business, including but not limited to any of the following retail businesses: book, stationery or news store, cigar store, drug store, delicatessen, dry goods or variety store, florist or gift shop, fruit or grocery store, hardware store, jewelry store, meat market or wearing apparel store.

A facility where horses are boarded and cared for and where instruction in riding, jumping, and showing is offered and where horses may be hired for riding.

Special Town Meeting as called for or permitted in the Town Charter, included but not limited to the regular Town meeting scheduled for the fall.

Business or trade school, music or dance school, school for martial arts training, and the like operated by a for-profit entity.

A program as defined in MGL c. 15D, § 1A.

Any letter, figure, character, mark, plane, point, marquee sign, design, poster, pictorial, picture, stroke, stripe, line, trademark, reading matter or illuminated service, which shall be constructed, placed, attached, painted, erected, fastened or manufactured in any manner whatsoever, so that the same shall be used for the attraction of the public to any place, subject, person, firm, corporation, public performance, article, machine or merchandise, whatsoever, which is displayed in any manner outdoors including any from the foregoing which may be visible in any manner from the outdoors.

The area of the minimum rectangle in the plane of the sign necessary to totally enclose all parts of it.

As applied to signs, any visual elements that either change or alter in appearance whatsoever.

A way which is over 24 feet in right-of-way width which is dedicated or devoted to public use by legal mapping or by any other lawful procedure. A "street" includes (1) all public ways, (2) a way which the Town Clerk certifies is maintained and used as a public way, (3) a way shown on a plan approved and endorsed in accordance with the rules and regulation governing subdivision of land in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, or (4) a way having in the opinion of the Lynnfield Planning Board sufficient paved width, suitable grades and adequate construction to provide for the needs of vehicular traffic in relation to the proposed uses of the land abutting thereon or served thereby and for the installation of municipal services to serve such land and the buildings erected or to be erected thereon.

A combination of materials assembled at a fixed location to give support or shelter or for other purposes, including buildings, frameworks, tents, platforms, signs, flagpoles, masts for antennas, and the like, but expressly excluding basketball courts.

Any structure that is not habitable, has proportions of which the height is substantially greater than the largest dimension of its horizontal cross-section, is greater than 12 feet in height when attached to a building or other structure, and/or exceeds the height limit of the district within which it is constructed, whether or not attached to another structure. Examples of tower types include "lattice" (open frame, truss-type construction) and "monopole" (tubular construction, defined herein).

Shop of a carpenter, cabinetmaker, electrician, painter, paperhanger, plumber, sign painter, or upholsterer, with not more than 5,000 square feet of floor area per establishment used for work and storage.

A place where animals or pets are given medical or surgical treatment and the boarding of animals is limited to short term care incidental to the use.

A plea or finding of a violation of any law in a criminal, civil, or administrative proceeding, whether part of a plea agreement, settlement agreement or determination by an arbitrator, board, hearing officer, court, or jury.