Off-premise parking lot. See “Parking lot (off-premise)”.

Office means a room or group of rooms used for conducting the affairs of a business, profession, service, industry or government, and generally furnished with desks, tables, files and communication equipment.

Open space means any portion of a zoning lot or area of land or water that is open and unobstructed from the ground to the sky, including areas maintained in a natural and undisturbed character.

Ordinary maintenance means work not requiring a building permit done to prevent deterioration of a building or structure, or decay of or damage to a building or structure or any part thereof, by restoring the building or structure as nearly as practicable to its condition prior to such deterioration, decay or damage.

Outdoor restaurant. See “Eating and drinking establishment – Outdoor restaurant”.

Outdoor storage means the use of a lot or parcel of land where raw materials, finished goods, vehicles or watercraft, other than those kept in a junkyard, are stored. This definition includes self-service storage facilities which also provide outside storage limited to boats, trailers or other vehicles.

Overlay district means a zoning designation specifically delineated on the Official Zoning Map establishing land use requirements that may supercede, or are in addition to, the standards set forth in the underlying zoning district.

Parking area mean any public or private land area designed and used for parking motor vehicles, including parking lots, garages, private driveways and allowed or legally designated areas of public streets.

Parking lot (commercial) means premises designed and used exclusively for the parking of vehicles for a fee.

Parking lot (off-premise) means a parking facility designed to serve a specific other use but which cannot be located on the same lot with the use it serves.

Performance standards mean a set of criteria or limits relating to certain characteristics that a particular use or process may not exceed.

Permeable parking area means a maintained parking area other than concrete or asphalt constructed in such a way as to allow the absorption of storm water, thus reducing the amount of storm water runoff occurring on site.

Places of worship means any church, temple, synagogue, mosque or other similar place where religious worship is conducted for groups of people or other similar activities.

Playground means an active recreation area with a variety of facilities, including equipment for younger children as well as court and field games.

Premises means a lot or parcel, or a lot or parcel and the structures and improvements thereon.

Principal use means the primary purpose, activity or function for which a parcel or building is used.

Printing and copying means a facility which provides printing and duplicating services on a small scale for the business community, using equipment similar to that which might typically be found in some offices. Such facility does not offer typesetting and printing capabilities beyond desktop publishing.

Printing (general) means a facility which offers printing capabilities using large scale equipment, which may include typesetting of all kinds, photomechanical and bindery operations.

Property means one or more lots or combinations of lots of record in single ownership or which is in separate ownership but is used as a unified entity, such as a shopping center.

Property line means those lines described in the legal description of the applicant's deed.

Property owner means any person who owns fee simple title to a given area of land.

Public art or public works of art mean the creative application of skill and taste by artists to production of permanent tangible objects according to the aesthetic principles, including but not limited to, paintings, sculptures, site specific installations, engravings, carvings, frescos, mobiles, murals, collages, mosaics, statues and bas-reliefs. Public art or public works of art shall also include the creative application of skill and taste by artists according to aesthetic principals to the architectural embellishment of a building or structure.

However, the following shall not be considered "public art or public works of art":

(1) Reproductions, or unlimited copies of original art work;

(2) Art objects which are mass produced;

(3) Works that are decorative, ornamental or functional elements of the architecture or landscape design, except when commissioned from an artist as an integral aspect of a structure or site;

(4) Architectural rehabilitation or historical preservation.

Public or semi-public use means a use that is intended to serve the entire community, such as public parks and open space, recreation facilities, transportation or public works facilities, churches, schools, government buildings, utility substations and the like, that fit into the primary and secondary uses shown in the R/OS Recreation/Open Space, the INS Institutional, T/U Transportation/Utility or P Preservation land use category description in the Comprehensive Plan.

Pushcart vending. See Section 6.7.