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Newtown City Zoning Code

§ B70-2.12

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A. 
"LIGHT OFFICE" means those office spaces that are used to support not-for-profit and charitable organizations or off-site professional uses.
[Added 8-10-2016, effective 8-22-2016[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also redesignated former Subsections A through D as Subsections B through E, respectively.
B. 
"LOCAL RESIDENTIAL STREET" -- see "Street, local residential".
C. 
"LOT" shall mean a parcel of land, of any size or shape, occupied by one principal building or devoted to one principal use and containing the permitted accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to such principal building or use, and including such open spaces as are required under the provisions of these Regulations. Where land is undeveloped "lot" shall mean all contiguous land owned by the same owner or owners except subdivision lots owned by a person not required to obtain reapproval of the subdivision pursuant to 2.17 of the Newtown Land Subdivision Regulations effective October 1967. The mere recording or filing of a map in the Town Clerk's Office shall not constitute the creation of a lot.
D. 
"LOT, CORNER" -- a corner lot shall mean a lot bounded on two or more sides by intersecting streets, the street lines of which intersect with each other at less than 150 degrees.
E. 
“LOT COVERAGE." The entire area of a lot covered by buildings, storage, loading, impervious surfaces, driveways, sidewalks and parking areas.
[Added 4-10-2019, effective 4-22-2019]
F. 
"LOT FRONTAGE" shall mean the distance between the sidelines of a lot measured along the streetline, or in the case of a corner lot, measured between the sideline on one side and the streetline on the other. For purposes of this definition, the streetline of a temporary turnaround (as used in the Newtown Land Subdivision Regulations) shall be the streetline which would exist if the street were extended and the temporary portion of the turnaround eliminated.