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from land by drains,grading,or • Easement: A grant by a property ________, linen,and organized social <br /> other means that include runoff owner to the use of land by the activities. <br /> controls to minimize erosion and public,a corporation,or persons <br /> sedimentation during and after for specific purposes as the c • Elderly housing,lifecare or <br /> construction or development,the construction of utilities,drainage 7.7i continuing care services: <br /> means for preserving the water ways and roadways. These were the traditional church <br /> supply,and the prevention or <br /> alleviation of flooding. <br /> or social welfare organization run <br /> Easement,access: An retirement centers where <br /> easement created for the residents turn their entire assets <br /> • Drip line: An imaginary vertical • <br /> purpose of providing vehicular or in exchange for housing, <br /> line that extends from the pedestrian access to a property. o ,•�• personal care,convenience care, <br /> outermost branches of a tree's and some health care. Recently, <br /> canopy to the ground. • Eave: The projecting lower ;,� some of these centers developed <br /> edges of a roof overhanging the other financial arrangement <br /> • Driveway,common: A driveway wall of a building. (instead of turning over all <br /> shared by adjacent property (Jj assets)for those who want these <br /> owners and privately owned and • Elderly housing: A multiple- a';t services. Other terms used for <br /> maintained. family structure,controlled by u; such establishments are: <br /> either a public body,institutional endowment facilities,founder's <br /> • Driveway,cross access: A body,or nonprofit corporation,80 care facilities,continuing care <br /> service drive providing vehicular percent of whose occupants shall retirement centers,etc. <br /> access between two or more be 65 years of age or over,or a <br /> continuous sites so the driver multiple-family structure where • Elderly housing,residential <br /> need not enter the public street each unit is occupied by at least care facility: A facility that <br /> system. one person who is 55 years of provides primarily nonmedical <br /> age or over and is retired,and resident services to seven or <br /> • Duplex: A structure containing where the rental arrangement more individuals in need of <br /> two dwelling units,each of which includes a requirement that all personal assistance essential for <br /> has direct access to the outside. members of each household sustaining the activities of daily <br /> consume at least one meal per living,or for the protection of the <br /> • Dwelling: A building or part of a day in a congregate dining facility individual,excluding members of <br /> building,containing living, contained within the multiple- the resident family or persons <br /> sleeping,housekeeping family structure employed as facility staff,on a <br /> accommodations,and sanitary 24-hour a day basis. <br /> facilities for occupancy by one or • Elderly housing,assisted <br /> more families. A building,or living: Services in these • Elderly/retirement housing: A <br /> structure of portion thereof, establishments include residential complex containing <br /> designed for occupancy by one assistance with daily activities, multifamily dwellings designed for <br /> family for residential purposes as such as dressing,grooming, and principally occupied by <br /> a single housekeeping unit. In no <br /> case shall a motor home,trailer <br /> bathing,etc. These are also senior citizens. Such facilities <br /> referred to as board and care may include a congregate meals <br /> coach,automobile chassis,tent, establishments. program in a common dining <br /> or portable building be area,but exclude institutional <br /> considered a dwelling. • Elderly housing,congregate care such as medical or nursing <br /> care facility: Funded through care and are distinguished from <br /> • Dwelling,multifamily: A the 1978 Congregate Housing life care retirement centers as <br /> dwelling or group of dwellings on Services Act,many of these elsewhere defined. <br /> one lot,containing separate living establishments served meals and <br /> units for three or more families, other services in low-income and • Employee parking area: The <br /> having separate or joint federally subsidized housing. portion of total required parking at <br /> entrances,and including Now,many establishments a development used by on-site <br /> apartments,group homes,row provide such services to other employees. Unless specified in <br /> house,and condominiums;also nonsubsidized housing facilities the city's zoning/building code, <br /> multiple dwellings and the services they offer employee parking shall be <br /> include housekeeping,laundry, calculated as follows: <br /> • Dwelling,single-family: A transportation,recreational commercial: 30 percent(devoted <br /> structure designed for occupancy programs,and other convenient to employees); <br /> by one family. A building stores. A facility for long-term Office/professional: 85 percent; <br /> designed exclusively for and residence exclusively by persons Industrial/manufacturing: 90 <br /> occupied exclusively by one 60 years of age or older,and percent. <br /> family. which shall include,without <br /> limitation,common dining and • Endangered species: A species <br /> • Dwelling,three-family: A social and recreational features, of animal or plant is considered to <br /> building designed exclusively for special safety and convenience be endangered when its <br /> or occupied exclusively by no features designed for the needs prospects for survival and <br /> more than three families living of the elderly,such as emergency reproduction are in immediate <br /> independently of each other in call systems,grab bars and jeopardy from one or more <br /> three separate dwelling units. handrails,special door hardware, causes. <br /> cabinets,appliances, <br /> • Dwelling unit: A single unit passageways,and doorways • Extraction: A contribution or <br /> providing complete,independent <br /> living facilities for one or more <br /> designed to accommodate payment required as an <br /> wheelchairs,and the provision of authorized precondition for <br /> persons,including permanent social services for residents receiving a development permit; <br /> provisions for living,sleeping, which must include at least two of usually refers to mandatory <br /> eating,cooking,and sanitation. the following: meal services, dedication(or fee in lieu of <br /> transportation,housekeeping, <br /> 9 <br />