Cumulatively, those thoroughfares that by virtue of their preexisting pedestrian supportive qualities, or their future importance to pedestrian connectivity, are held to the highest standards prescribed by this TND district. See definition of “B-grid”. (Synonym: primary grid.)

An outbuilding with an accessory unit.

An apartment not greater than four hundred forty (440) square feet sharing the same lot and utility connections with a principal building; it may or may not be within an outbuilding. See section 16.16.230.11, table 8 and table 15 of this chapter. (Synonym: casita.)

A thoroughfare of high vehicular capacity and low to moderate speed, acting as a short distance connector between urban centers, and usually equipped with a landscaped median.

A regularly spaced and aligned row of trees usually planted along a thoroughfare or path.

A residential unit sharing a building and a lot with other units and/or uses; may be for rent, or for sale as a condominium.

The interior part of a building contained within its roof structure.

A facility which provides collision repair services, including body frame straightening, replacement of damaged parts, and painting; a facility for the repair of automobiles, noncommercial trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, rental vehicles, or boats, including the sale, installation, and servicing of equipment and parts. This use includes muffler shops, auto repair garages, tire sales and installation, wheel and brake shops, body and fender shops, and similar repair and service activities, but excludes dismantling or salvage.

Cumulatively, those thoroughfares that by virtue of their use, location, or absence of preexisting pedestrian supportive qualities, may meet a standard lower than that of the A-grid. See definition of “A-grid”. (Synonym: secondary grid.)

A single-story structure connecting a principal building to an outbuilding. See section 16.16.230.11, table 15 of this chapter.

A manager or owner occupied lodging type offering one to twelve (12) bedrooms, permitted to serve breakfast in the mornings to guests.

A dedicated lane for cycling within a moderate speed vehicular thoroughfare, demarcated by striping.

A thoroughfare suitable for the shared use of bicycles and automobiles moving at low speeds.

A bicycleway running independently of a vehicular thoroughfare.

A device (including, but not limited to, letters, words, numerals, figures, emblems, pictures or any part or combination) used for visual communication and intended to attract the public that projects perpendicular from a building or is hung beneath a canopy.

The aggregate of private lots, passages, rear alleys and rear lanes, circumscribed by thoroughfares.

The aggregate of all the building facades on one side of a block.

An area previously used primarily as an industrial site.

See definition of “Bus rapid transit”.

A rubber tire system with its own right-of-way or dedicated lane along at least seventy percent (70%) of its route, providing transit service that is faster than a regular bus.

A roofed structure, usually having three (3) walls, located near a street and designed primarily for the protection and convenience of the bus passengers.

Characterizing an application proposal or component of an application for a building scale plan that complies with the standards of the TND district and is permitted and processed administratively, without public hearing.

A pedestrian connector, open or roofed, that passes between buildings to provide shortcuts through long blocks. Development on adjacent lots are required to enfront the callejon.

A local, rural and suburban thoroughfare of low to moderate vehicular speed and capacity. This type is allocated to the more rural transect zones (T-1 to T-3). See section 16.16.230.11, table 2A of this chapter.

A civic space dedicated to the burial of the dead, including mausoleums, necessary sales, and maintenance of such facilities and may include interment and civic gatherings.

An establishment that provides regular shelter, care, activity, and supervision (with or without academic interaction) for no more than five (5) children.

The term defining not-for-profit organizations dedicated to arts, culture, education, recreation, government, transit, and municipal parking.

A building operated by not-for-profit or government organizations dedicated to arts, culture, education, recreation, government, transit, and municipal parking, or for use approved by the town council.

Parking structure or parking lot within a quarter mile of the site that it serves.

An outdoor area dedicated for public use. Civic space types are defined by the combination of certain physical constants including the relationships among their intended use, their size, their landscaping and their enfronting buildings. See section 16.16.230.11, table 11 of this chapter.

Designation for public sites dedicated for civic buildings and civic space.

A community type structured by a standard pedestrian shed oriented toward a common destination such as a general store, meeting hall, schoolhouse, or church. CLD takes the form of a small settlement standing free in the countryside. See section 16.16.230.11, table 12, item A of this chapter. (Synonym: hamlet, conservation land development, cluster.)

The land use development code.

A public, parochial, or private institution that provides education instruction to students and may or may not include living quarters, recreation facilities, dining rooms, restaurants, heating plants, and other incidental facilities for students, teachers, and employees. The institution is authorized by the state to award associate, baccalaureate, or higher degrees but not including colleges or trade schools operated for profit.

The term collectively defining workplace, office, retail, and lodging functions.

An area of focused community activity, usually defining the approximate center of a pedestrian shed. It may include, without limitation, one or more of the following: a civic space, a civic building, a commercial center, or a transit station, and may act as the social center of a neighborhood.

A planted private frontage wherein the facade is set back from the frontage line. It is visually continuous with adjacent yards. See section 16.16.230.11, table 7 of this chapter.

A regulatory category defining the physical form, density, and extent of a settlement.

Aggregation of three (3) to five (5) homes in a single development envelope, with shared courtyards and parking areas. The enclosure may be a combination of walls and the buildings themselves. This may result in a side yard or rear yard type.

A facility used for service organizations, business and professional conferences, and seminars limited to accommodations for conference attendees. The accommodation can include sleeping, eating, and no recreation. A conference center is not designed to be only utilized by the general public for overnight purposes.

The form of a building, based on its massing, private frontage, and height.

A facility designed to accommodate conventions, conferences, seminars, product displays, recreation activities, and entertainment functions, along with an accessory function included [including] temporary outdoor display, and food and beverages preparation and service for on-premises consumption; or

A commercial facility used for assemblies or meetings of the members or representatives of groups, including exhibition space. This term does not include banquet halls, clubs, lodges, or other meeting facilities of private or nonprofit groups that are primarily used by group members.

A linear geographic system incorporating transportation and/or greenway trajectories. A transportation corridor may be a linear transect zone.

An edge yard building type. A single-family dwelling, on a regular lot, often shared with an accessory building in the back yard.

A building that occupies the boundaries of its lot while internally defining one or more private portals. See section 16.16.230.11, table 7 of this chapter. (Synonym: courtyard house.)

The consolidated review committee.

The edge of the vehicular pavement that may be raised or flush to a swale. It usually incorporates the drainage system. See section 16.16.230.11, tables 2A and 2B of this chapter.

The number of dwelling units within a standard measure of land area.

The velocity at which a thoroughfare tends to be driven without the constraints of signage or enforcement. There are four (4) ranges of speed: very low (below 20 miles per hour); low (20-25 miles per hour); moderate (25-35 miles per hour); high (above 35 miles per hour). Lane width is determined by desired design speed. See section 16.16.230.11, table 2C of this chapter.

Lands other than those in T-1 natural transect.

The placement of a building on its lot. See section 16.16.230.11, tables 7 and 15 of this chapter.

A retail or service [establishment] whose character is dependent on providing a driveway approach or parking spaces for motor vehicles so as to serve patrons while in the motor vehicle rather than within a building or structure; or

An establishment accommodating the patron’s automobile from which the occupants may purchase retail goods or receive a service or in which products purchased from the establishment may be consumed; or

An establishment that dispenses products or service to patrons who remain in vehicles.

A vehicular lane within a lot, often leading to a garage.

A building designed as a signal [single] structure, containing two (2) separate living units, each of which are designed to be occupied as a separate permanent residence.

A building that occupies the center of its lot with setbacks on all sides. See section 16.16.230.11, table 7 of this chapter.

The amount of parking required for mixed use after adjustment by the shared parking factor. See section 16.16.230.11, table 9 of this chapter.

The measurement of the inside turning radius taking parked cars into account. See section 16.16.230.11, table 15 of this chapter.

An assemblage of equipment for purpose other than generation or utilization, through which electric energy in bulk is passed for the purposes of switching or modifying its characteristics to meet the needs of the general public, provided that in residence districts an electric substation shall not include rotating equipment, stores of materials, trucks repair facilities, housing repair crews, or office of place of business. An assemblage of equipment and appurtenant facilities designed for voltage control of electricity in amounts one hundred fifteen thousand (115,000) volts or more. A premises which may or may not contain buildings, where the interconnection and usual transformations of electrical service take place between systems. An electric substation shall be secondary, supplementary, subordinate, and auxiliary to the main system. Structures and appurtenant facilities used [for] the distribution of electric energy in voltage less than one hundred fifteen thousand (115,000) volts.

A public, parochial, or private institution that provides education instruction to students. This does not include trade or business schools or colleges but serves students between the kindergarten and high school levels.

An exterior wall of a building not along a frontage line. See section 16.16.230.11, table 15 of this chapter. See definition of “Facade.”

Any structural element that breaks the plane of a vertical or horizontal regulatory limit, extending into a setback, into the public frontage, or above a height limit.

To place an element along a frontage, as in “porches enfront the street”.

A building meant for exhibiting, showing or presenting objects of public interest.

A sign not exceeding three feet (3') in height and which may extend the entire facade of a building.

The exterior wall of a building that is set along a frontage line. See definition of “Elevation.”

A building used for fire equipment and firefighters.

A mixed use unit consisting of a commercial and residential function. The commercial function may be anywhere in the unit. It is intended to be occupied by a lessee or owned as a condominium.

A structure or architectural feature meant for discharging a jet or stream of water by mechanical means.

The area between a building facade and the vehicular lanes, inclusive of its built and planted components. Frontage is divided into private frontage and public frontage. See section 16.16.230.11, tables 2A and 7 of this chapter.

A lot line bordering a public frontage. Facades facing frontage lines define the public realm and are therefore more regulated than the elevations facing other lot lines. See section 16.16.230.11, table 15 of this chapter.

The use or uses accommodated by a building and its lot, categorized as restricted, limited, or open, according to the intensity of the use. See section 16.16.230.11, tables 8 and 10 of this chapter.

A building or part thereof used for human funeral services and arranging and managing funerals. Such buildings may contain space and facilities for embalming and the performance of other services used in preparation of the dead for burial, the performance of autopsies and other surgical procedure, the storage of caskets, funeral urns, and other related funereal vehicles and facilities. Where a funeral home is permitted, a funeral chapel shall also be permitted. Typical uses include funeral homes or mortuaries. A building used for the deceased for burial and display of the deceased and rituals connected therewith before burial or cremation.

Any lot or parcel of land or portion thereof used partly or entirely for storing or dispensing flammable gas, or flammable gas into the fuel tanks of motor vehicles; or

That portion of property where flammable or combustible liquids or gases used as fuel are stored or dispensed from fixed equipment into the fuel tanks of motor vehicles. Such an establishment may offer for sale at retail other convenience items as a clearly secondary activity and may include a freestanding automatic car wash.

A building used for the storage of grain which does not have a door or other entranceway into a dwelling unit.

An area that consists of open or wooded land or farmland that has not been previously developed.

A building used for growing plants all or part of which are sold at retail or wholesale.

An open space corridor in largely natural conditions which may include trails for bicycles and pedestrians.

An area previously used primarily as a parking lot. Shopping centers and shopping malls are typical greyfield sites. (Variant: grayfield.)

An edge yard building type. A single-family dwelling on a very large lot of rural character, often shared by one or more accessory buildings. (Synonym: country house.)

See definition of “CLD or clustered land development”. (Synonym: cluster, settlement.)

Uses engaged in the basic processing and manufacturing of materials or products predominately from extended or raw materials, or a use engaged in storage of, or manufacturing or processed [processing], flammable, or explosive materials, or storage or manufacturing processes that potentially involve hazardous conditions.

A public, parochial, or private institution that provides education instruction to students. This does not include trade or business schools or colleges but typically serves the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades.

A rural and suburban thoroughfare of high vehicular speed and capacity. This type is allocated to the more rural transect zones (T-1, T-2, and T-3).

Nonretail commercial enterprises. The work quarters should be invisible from the frontage, located either within the house or in an outbuilding. Permitted activities are defined by the restricted office category. See section 16.16.230.11, table 8 of this chapter.

A licensed institution that provides primary health services and medical or surgical care to persons, primarily inpatients, suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity, and other abnormal physical or mental conditions, and including as an integral part of the institution, related facilities such as laboratories, outpatient facilities, or training facilities.

A building in which lodging is provided and offered to the public for compensation, and which is open to transient guests.

An edge yard building type, usually a single-family dwelling on a large lot, often shared with an accessory building in the back yard. (Synonym: single.)

New development on land that had been previously developed, including most greyfield and brownfield sites and cleared land within urbanized areas. (Verb: to develop such areas.)

A lodging type, applicant occupied, offering twelve (12) to fifty (50) bedrooms, permitted to serve breakfast in the mornings to guests. See section 16.16.230.11, table 8 of this chapter.

The production of agricultural products which are watered by artificial or other means. Livestock grazing is permitted.

The boarding, breeding, raising, grooming, or training of four (4) or more dogs, cats or other household pets of any age not owned by the owner or occupant of the premises, and/or for commercial gain.

A freestanding structure upon which temporary information and/or posters, notice, and announcements are posted, or a freestanding building with one or more open sides from which commercial activities are conducted.

A range of depth of a lot within which certain elements are permitted. Also see definition of “Lot layer”. See section 16.16.230.11, table 15 of this chapter.

A public facility for the use, but not sale, of literary, musical, artistic or reference materials. A public, nonprofit facility in which literary, musical, artistic or reference material such as, but not limited to, books, manuscripts, computers, recordings, or films are kept by use by or loaning to patrons of the facility but are normally offered for sale.

A building or group of buildings used for the manufacturing, compounding, processing, packing, storage, assembly, and/or treatment of finished or semifinished products from previously prepared materials, which activities are conducted wholly within an enclosed building. Finished or semifinished products may be temporarily stored outdoors pending shipment.

A light industrial facility is capable of operation in such a manner as to control the external effects of the manufacturing process, such as smoke, noise, soot, dirt, vibration, odor, etc. A machine shop is included in this category. Also included is the manufacturing of apparel, electrical appliances, electronic equipment, camera and photographic equipment, ceramic products, cosmetics and toiletries, business machines, fish tanks and supplies, food, paper (but not the manufacture of paper from pulpwood), musical instruments, medical appliances, tools or hardware, plastic products (but not the processing of raw materials), pharmaceuticals or optical goods, bicycles, and any other products of a similar nature.

A private frontage type that is a below grade entrance or recess designed to allow light into basements. See section 16.16.230.11, table 7 of this chapter. (Synonym: light court.)

A pedestrian shed that is elongated along a mixed use corridor such as a main street. A linear pedestrian shed extends approximately one-fourth (1/4) mile from each side of the corridor for the length of its mixed use portion. The resulting area is shaped like a lozenge. It may be used to structure a TND. (Synonym: elongated pedestrian shed.)

A building specifically designed to mask a parking lot or a parking structure from a frontage.

The retail sale of beer, wine, and other alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption.

A structure used for the performing arts for an audience. Such establishments may include related services such as food and beverage sales and other concessions.

A mixed use unit consisting of a commercial and residential function. The commercial function may be anywhere in the unit. It is intended to be occupied by a business operator who lives in the same structure that contains the commercial activity. See definition of “Work-live”.

An establishment which keeps, feeds, or raises livestock. These include piggeries, dairies, dairy and beef cattle ranching, feedlots, chicken, turkey, and other poultry farms, rabbit farms, apiaries, and aviaries.

Premises available for daily and weekly renting of bedrooms. See section 16.16.230.11, tables 8 and 10 of this chapter.

A pedestrian shed that is an average one-half (1/2) mile radius or two thousand six hundred forty feet (2,640'), used when a transit stop (bus or rail) is present or proposed as the common destination. A long pedestrian shed represents approximately a ten (10) minute walk at a leisurely pace. See definition of “Pedestrian shed”.

A parcel of land accommodating a building or buildings of unified design. The size of a lot is controlled by its width in order to determine the grain (i.e., fine grain or coarse grain) of the urban fabric.

The total of all impervious surfaces within a lot area, expressed as a percentage of the lot, including, but not limited to, buildings, garages, sidewalks, hardscape, driveways, parking areas, or any other surface that does not absorb water. See section 16.16.230.11, table 12, item F of this chapter.

A range of depth of a lot within which certain elements are permitted. Also see definition of “Layer”. See section 16.16.230.11, table 15, item D of this chapter.

The boundary that legally and geometrically demarcates a lot.

The length of the principal frontage line of a lot.

The primary outdoor gathering place for a community. The main civic space is often, but not always, associated with a civic building. See section 16.16.230.11, table 11, item C or D of this chapter.

Premises available for the creation, assemblage and/or repair of artifacts, using table mounted electrical machinery or artisanal equipment, and including their retail sale.

A facility operated by one or more physicians, dentists, chiropractors or other licensed practitioners of the healing arts for the examination and treatment of persons solely on an outpatient basis.

A building available for gatherings, including conferences, that accommodates at least one room equivalent to a minimum of ten (10) square feet per projected dwelling unit within the pedestrian shed in which it is located.

Multiple functions within the same building through superimposition or adjacency, or in multiple buildings with multiple functions located within the same lot.

A device (including, but not limited to, letters, words, numerals, figures, emblems, pictures or any part or combination) used for visual communication and intended to attract the public that does not to exceed four feet (4') in height and that advertises the name of a single business, mall or multi-tenant premises.

A theater for showing movies or motion pictures.

A building having public significance by reason of its architecture or former use or occupancy or a building serving as a repository for a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities or objects of interest, or works of art, and arranged, intended, and designed to be used by members of the public, for viewing, with or without an entry fee, and which may include as an accessory use the sale of goods to the public as gifts or for their own use.

An establishment primarily selling frequently needed or recurrently needed goods for household consumption, such as packaged food and beverages and limited household supplies and hardware but not including the sale and dispensing of motor vehicles fuels.

All developable land within a site including thoroughfares but excluding land allocated as civic zones.

A pedestrian shed adjusted for average walk times along thoroughfares. See section 16.16.230.11, table 15 of this chapter.

Premises available for the transaction of general business but excluding retail, artisanal and manufacturing uses. See section 16.16.230.11, table 8 of this chapter. (Synonym: office building.)

A structure used for the retail sale of produce or other foodstuffs primarily outside or in an enclosed structure, for more than ninety (90) days in any calendar year. This term shall not include motor vehicles sales facilities, garden supply or landscaping center, lumberyard, building supply or home improvement center, or Christmas tree lot.

A civic space that remains undeveloped as a natural preserve or may be preserved for civic space. See section 16.16.230.11, table 11 of this chapter.

An accessory building, usually located toward the rear of the same lot as a principal building, and sometimes connected to the principal building by a back building. See section 16.16.230.11, table 15 of this chapter.

An open or partially enclosed facility used primarily for spectator sports, entertainment events, expositions, and other public gatherings such as music, lectures, or other presentations. Typical uses include convention and exhibition halls, sports areas, and amphitheaters.

A building containing one or more stories of parking above grade.

A civic space type that is a natural preserve available for unstructured recreation. See section 16.16.230.11, table 11 of this chapter.

A local urban thoroughfare of low speed and capacity. See section 16.16.230.11, tables 2A and 2B of this chapter.

A facility or location where the principal use is the handling, receiving, or transfer of passenger traffic, and may include as an accessory use the loading, unloading, storing, receiving, assembling, dispatching, weighing, consolidating, classifying, switching, distribution, movement, or transfer of freight, as well as all equipment and facilities uses to accomplish the foregoing activities.

A pedestrianway traversing a parque comunal or rural area, with landscape matching the contiguous open space, ideally connecting directly with the urban sidewalk network.

An area that is centered on a common destination. Its size is related to average walking distances for the applicable traditional neighborhood plan. Pedestrian sheds are applied to structure neighborhoods. See definition of “Standard pedestrian shed”, “Linear pedestrian shed”, or “Network pedestrian shed”. (Synonym: walkshed, walkable catchment.)

The element of the public frontage which accommodates street trees, whether continuous or individual.

A civic space designed and equipped primarily for the recreation of children. See section 16.16.230.11, table 11 of this chapter.

A civic space type designed for civic purposes and commercial activities. A plaza is located in the more urban transect zones, generally paved and spatially defined by building frontages.

A civic space type designed for unstructured recreation and civic purposes. It is spatially defined by building frontages and consisting of paths, lawns and trees, formally disposed. See section 16.16.230.11, table 11 of this chapter.

Protection centers operated by a governmental agency, including, temporary detention facilities, and the open or enclosed parking of patrol vehicles, but excluding correctional institutions.

A private frontage wherein the facade is aligned close to the frontage line with a traditionally treated flat roofed ground level colonnade, between six feet (6') and ten feet (10') deep, and paved to match the sidewalk, if it abuts a sidewalk. See section 16.16.230.11, table 7 of this chapter.

The main building on a lot, usually located toward the frontage. See section 16.16.230.11, table 15 of this chapter.

The main point of access for pedestrians into a building.

On corner lots, the private frontage designated to bear the address and principal entrance to the building, and the measure of minimum lot width. Prescriptions for the parking layers pertain only to the principal frontage. Prescriptions for the first layer pertain to both frontages of a corner lot. See definition of “Frontage”.

The privately held layer between the frontage line and the principal building facade. See section 16.16.230.11, tables 7 and 15 of this chapter.

A sculpture or similar object that is sited as a focal point and is intended for the enjoyment of the general public.

The area between the curb of the vehicular lanes and the frontage line. See section 16.16.230.11, tables 2A and 2B of this chapter.

A private frontage conventional for retail use wherein the facade is a portal that overlaps the sidewalk, while the facade at sidewalk level remains at the frontage line.

A portable structure for the merchandising or sale of food or foodstuffs from a nonpermanent location. The structure shall be less than one hundred (100) square feet in area.

A thoroughfare designed for high vehicular capacity and moderate speed, traversing an urbanized area. Ramblas are usually equipped with slip roads buffering sidewalks and buildings.

A vehicularway located to the rear of lots providing access to service areas, parking, and outbuildings and containing utility easements. Rear alleys should be paved from building face to building face, with drainage by inverted crown at the center or with roll curbs at the edges.

A vehicularway located to the rear of lots providing access to service areas, parking, and outbuildings and containing utility easements. Rear lanes may be paved lightly to driveway standards. The streetscape consists of gravel or landscaped edges, has no raised curb, and is drained by percolation.

A building that occupies the full frontage line, leaving the rear of the lot as the sole yard. See section 16.16.230.11, table 7 of this chapter. (Variant: row house, townhouse, apartment house.)

A line prescribed for the full width of a facade, above which there is a step back of a minimum distance, such that the height to this line (not the overall building height) effectively defines the enclosure of the enfronting public space. See section 16.16.230.11, table 6 of this chapter.

Land within a three (3) mile radius from the municipal limits of the town.

A zoning map or set of maps that show the transect zones, civic zones, and special districts if any, of areas subject to, or potentially subject to, regulation by the TND district.

A site used by a religious group primarily or exclusively for religious worship and related religious service, including a place of worship, retreat site or religious camp.

Characterizing premises available for long term human dwelling.

A public facility located next to a thoroughfare at which drivers and passengers can rest or eat without exiting onto other thoroughfares.

A structure in which the principal use is the preparation and sale of food and beverages. A commercial establishment where food and beverages are prepared, served, and consumed primarily within the principal building and where food sales constitute more than eighty percent (80%) of the gross sales receipts for food or beverages.

Characterizing premises available for the sale of merchandise. See section 16.16.230.11, tables 8 and 10 of this chapter.

Frontage designated on a regulating map that requires or recommends the provision of a shopfront, encouraging the ground level to be available for retail use.

An accessory structure for a seasonal retail sale grown or produced food or retail on the lot.

A single-family dwelling that shares a party wall with another of the same type and occupies the full frontage line. See definition of “Rear yard building”. (Synonym: townhouse.)

The extent of potential urban growth as determined by existing geographical determinants. The rural boundary line is permanent.

A structure specifically designed for a long term stay by students, or nonprofit organization for the purpose of providing rooms for sleeping purposes. One common kitchen and some common gathering rooms for social purposes may also be provided.

On corner lots, the private frontage that is not the principal frontage. As it affects the public realm, its first layer is regulated. See section 16.16.230.11, table 15 of this chapter.

The area of a lot measured from the lot line to a building facade or elevation that is maintained clear of permanent structures, with the exception of encroachments listed in subsection 16.16.230.10.D of this chapter. See section 16.16.230.11, table 12, item G of this chapter. (Variant: build-to line.)

An accounting for parking spaces that are available to more than one function. See section 16.16.230.11, table 9 of this chapter.

A private frontage conventional for retail use, with substantial glazing and an awning, wherein the facade is aligned close to the frontage line with the building entrance at sidewalk grade. See section 16.16.230.11, table 7 of this chapter.

A group of commercial establishments planned, constructed, and managed as a total entity with consumer and employee parking provided on-site, provision for goods delivery separated from consumer access, aesthetic considerations and protection from inclement weather.

A facility with five (5) or more stores for rental goods and services, which are structurally designed in an integrated fashion around or both sides of a promenade, walkway, concourse, or courtyard. Primary individual store entrances front into a promenade. The mall may include offices and satellite or unattached structures that are served by the mall network. This definition applies only to a facility in which eighty-five percent (85%) or more of the gross floor area is accessed from enclosed, or court yards.

A building that occupies one side of the lot with a setback on the other side. This type can be a single or twin depending on whether it abuts the neighboring house. See section 16.16.230.11, table 7 of this chapter. (Synonym: side yard house.)

The paved section of the public frontage dedicated exclusively to pedestrian activity.

A residential facility in which furnished rooms are rented on a weekly or monthly basis and which provides common facilities and services for laundry, cleaning, and meals.

An outer vehicular lane or lanes of a thoroughfare, designed for slow speeds while inner lanes carry higher speed traffic, and separated from them by a planted median. (Synonym: access lane, service lane.)

A contiguous parcel or parcels of ten (10) acres or more that is subject to a regulating map or maps and may include new transect zones, civic zones and thoroughfares with appropriate transitions to abutting areas. It is prepared by the applicant in consultation with the planning and zoning department.

An area that, by its intrinsic function, disposition, or configuration, cannot or should not conform to one or more of the normative community types or transect zones specified by the TND district. Special districts may be mapped and regulated at the regional scale or the community scale.

A building that is not subject to residential, commercial, or lodging classification. See section 16.16.230.11, table 7 of this chapter.

A civic space that is designed and developed for structured recreation. See section 16.16.230.11, table 11 of this chapter.

An open, closed, or partially enclosed facility intended for spectator sports or other commercial recreation.

A building in which horses or cattle are sheltered.

A pedestrian shed that is an average one-fourth (1/4) mile radius or one thousand three hundred twenty feet (1,320'), about the distance of a five (5) minute walk at a leisurely pace. See definition of “Pedestrian shed”.

A building setback of a specified distance that occurs at a prescribed number of stories above the ground. See section 16.16.230.11, table 6 of this chapter.

A habitable level within a building.

A freestanding wall built along the frontage line, or coplanar with the facade. It may mask a parking lot from the thoroughfare, provide privacy to a side yard, and/or strengthen the spatial definition of the public realm. (Synonym: streetwall.)

Alteration to a building that is valued at more than fifty percent (50%) of the replacement cost of the entire building, if new.

A parking area for motor vehicles where there is no gross building area below the parking area and no gross building area or roof above it.

A low or slightly depressed natural area for drainage.

A term used in the concept of community building to refer to social surroundings separate from the two (2) usual social environments of home and workplace. Criteria for a third place include the following: highly accessible, proximate for many within walking distance, involve regulars, and inexpensive food and drink are important. Coffee shops and cafes are often used as a neighborhood’s third place.

A way for use by vehicular and pedestrian traffic and to provide access to lots and open spaces, consisting of vehicular lanes and the public frontage. See section 16.16.230.11, table 2C and table 15, item A of this chapter.

See definition of “Rear yard building”. (Synonym: row house.)

A public, parochial, or private institution that provides education instruction to students for industrial, clerical, managerial, or artistic skills.

A community type structured by a pedestrian shed oriented toward a common destination consisting of a mixed use center or corridor, and in the form of a medium sized settlement near a transportation route. See section 16.16.230.11, table 12, item A of this chapter. (Synonym: village, neighborhood.)

A map or series of maps more [sic] that meet the requirements of the traditional neighborhood development district zoning classification. A traditional neighborhood plan must be approved by town council resolution prior to the rezoning of any lands to the transect zones of the TND district.

A cross-section of the environment showing a range of different habitats. The rural-urban transect of the human environment used in the TND district is divided into five (5) transect zones. These zones describe the physical form and character of a place, according to the density and intensity of its land use and urbanism.

One of several areas on a zoning map regulated by the TND district. Transect zones are administratively similar to the land use zones in conventional codes, except that in addition to the usual building use, density, height, and setback requirements, other elements of the intended habitat are integrated, including those of the private lot and building and public frontage. See section 16.16.230.11, table 1 of this chapter.

The business of repairing, overhauling, removing, adjusting, replacing, assembling, or disassembling parts of any motor vehicle.

A building or establishment where the following activities may occur: general repair, engine rebuilding, reconditioning of motor vehicles, collision repair, painting, general maintenance, and where no more than two (2) abandoned vehicles shall be stored on the premises.

Any building or portion thereof used for the repair or replacement of engines, transitions [transmissions], differentials, drive trains, or any part thereof, in addition to the replacement of parts, service, and incidental repairs to motor vehicles.

The curved edge of a thoroughfare at an intersection, measured at the inside edge of the vehicular tracking. The smaller the turning radius, the smaller the pedestrian crossing distance and the more slowly the vehicle is forced to make the turn. See section 16.16.230.11, tables 2C and 15 of this chapter.

The extent of potential urban growth as determined by the projected demographic needs of a region. The urban boundary line may be adjusted from time to time.

Collective term for the condition of a compact, mixed use settlement, including the physical form of its development and its environmental, functional, economic, and sociocultural aspects.

Generally, developed. Specific to the smartcode, developed at T-3 (suburban) density or higher.

See section 16.08.020.3 of this title.

A private frontage type wherein the facade is set back from the frontage line to provide a yard and is separated from the sidewalk with a wall. The wall maintains street spatial definition. Setbacks and walls vary per T-zone. See section 16.16.230.11, table 5B of this chapter.

A ruling that would permit a practice that is not consistent with a specific provision of this TND district.

A ruling by the CRC allowing a dimensional deviation from the standards of the TND district provided that the deviation is within the percentage limitation of subsection 16.16.230.4.B of this chapter.

A determination by motion or resolution of the town council relating to the design, location or other features of a civic space or civic building (see section 16.16.230.4 of this chapter).

Any system of wires, poles, rods, reflection disks, or similar devices used for the transmission or reception of electronic waves when which system is external to or attached to the exterior structure. Antennas shall include devices having active elements extending in any direction, and directional beam type arrays having elements carried by and disposed from a generally horizontal boom that may be mounted upon and rotated through a vertical mast or tower interconnecting the boom and antenna support, all of which elements are deemed to be part of the antenna. Antennas shall include cellular on wheels (COWs) and cellular on light trucks (COLTs) facilities as well as dispatch carries for specialized mobile radio (SMR) services and enhanced SMR (ESMR).

A mixed use unit consisting of a commercial and residential function. It typically has a substantial commercial component that may accommodate employees and walk-in trade. The unit is intended to function predominantly as workspace with incidental residential accommodations that meet basic habitability requirements. See definition of “Live-work”. (Synonym: live-work.)

Characterizing a thoroughfare that has two-way traffic but only one effective travel lane because of parked cars, necessitating slow movement and driver negotiation.

The official map or maps that are part of the zoning ordinance and delineate the boundaries of individual zones and districts. See definition of “Regulating map”.