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Chapter 919: Definitions <br /> <br /> Page 919-13 <br />Restaurant: A business where meals or prepared food, including beverages and confections, are <br />served to customers for consumption on or off the premises. Such a facility may include indoor <br />and outdoor seating and/or drive through services. At least 50 percent of the gross revenue shall <br />be obtained directly through the sale of food. <br />Restaurant, Convenience Food: A restaurant in which customers place orders at a counter and <br />the meal is typically delivered before they sit at a table. These facilities often include drive-up <br />window service. <br />Restaurant, Drive-In Service. A restaurant in which customers stay in their cars and are served <br />food in the parking lot. Commonly known as a “drive-in.” <br />Retail Business: An establishment primarily engaged in the sale of goods and materials to the <br />general public not otherwise specifically defined in code. <br />Root Zone: The area inside the drip line of a tree that contains its roots. <br />Runway: Any surface of the airport which is specifically designated and used for the landing <br />and/or take-off of aircraft. <br />Salvage Yard, Vehicle: A business in which inoperable motor vehicles are stored outdoors <br />while they await dismantling, crushing or stripping for parts. <br />Sanitary Sewer System: Pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, and force main, and all other <br />construction, devices, appliances, or appurtenances used for conducting sewage or industrial waste <br />or other wastes to a point of ultimate disposal. <br />Sediment Control: Measures and methods employed to prevent sediment from leaving the site. <br />Sediment control practices include but are not limited to silt fences, sediment traps, earth dikes, <br />drainage swales, check dams, subsurface drains, pipe slope drains, storm drain inlet protection, <br />and temporary or permanent sedimentation basins. <br />Self-Storage Facility: A building or group of buildings that contains equal or varying sizes of <br />individual, compartmentalized, and controlled access stalls or lockers for the storage of residential <br />or commercial customer’s goods or wares. <br />Semi-Public Use: The use of land by a private, nonprofit organization to provide a public service <br />that is ordinarily open to some persons outside the regular constituency of the organization. <br />Seniors Housing: A multiple-family structure or cluster of detached single-family structures <br />designed for and restricted to occupants who are at least 55 years of age. The facility may include <br />common areas for the congregation of occupants for activities or meals. The facility may include <br />independent living, assisted living and/or memory care housing and related facilities. <br />Setback: The horizontal distance between a structure and the perimeter of the parcel on which it is <br />located. A setback is a minimum distance and not the same as a Build-to Line, but houses along a <br />street are expected to match the average of adjacent houses’ front yard setbacks. <br />Shore Impact Zone: Land located between the ordinary high water level of a public water and a <br />line parallel to it at a setback of 50 percent of the structure setback. <br />Shoreland: Land located within the following distance from public waters: 1,000 feet from the <br />ordinary high water level of a lake, pond or flowage; and 300 feet from a river or stream, or the <br />landward extent of a floodplain designated by ordinance on a river or stream, whichever is <br />greater. The limits of Shorelands may be reduced whenever the waters involved are bounded by <br />topographic divides which extend landward from the waters or lesser distances and when <br />approved by the Commissioner.