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horizontally thus necessitating a use or resale at a later date. Development that occurs well
<br /> higher expenditure for capital Banked lands have been used for beyond the existing limits of
<br /> improvements than would be development of low-and development and thus leaves
<br /> required for infill development. moderate-income housing, T.:: intervening vacant land behind.
<br /> The use of infill development, expansion of parks,and f: This bypassing of the next-in-line
<br /> among others,promotes the best development of industrial and lands at the urban fringe results
<br /> use of resources and also will commercial centers. Federal rail in the haphazard shotgun pattern
<br /> tend to have a positive impact banking law allows railroads to ti l�' of urbanization known as
<br /> upon the tax and other fiscal bank unused rail corridors for w "sprawl".
<br /> policies. future rail use while allowing
<br /> interim use as trails. ° • Level of service standard
<br /> • Infill development: ', (LOS),traffic: A scale that
<br /> Development of vacant,skipped- • Land clearing: The removal of w a.7: measures the amount of traffic
<br /> over parcels of land in otherwise vegetation from any site,parcel that a roadway or intersection
<br /> built-up areas. Local or lot except when land is cleared (i can accommodate,based on
<br /> governments are showing and cultivated for bona fide such factors as maneuverability,
<br /> increasing interest in infill agricultural or garden use in a '' driver dissatisfaction,and delay.
<br /> development as a way of district permitting such use. to Level of Service A indicates a
<br /> containing energy costs and Mowing,trimming,pruning,or relatively free flow of traffic,with
<br /> limiting costs of extending removal of vegetation to maintain little or no limitation on vehicle
<br /> infrastructure into newly it in a healthy,viable condition is movement or speed. Level of
<br /> developing areas. Infill not considered clearing. Service B describes a steady flow
<br /> development also provides an of traffic,with only slight delays in
<br /> attractive alternative to new • Land use element: A plan or vehicle movement and speed. All
<br /> development by reducing loss of scheme designating the location queues clear in a single signal
<br /> critical and resource lands to new and extent of use for agriculture, cycle. Level of Service C
<br /> development and by focusing on timber production,housing, denotes a reasonably steady,
<br /> strengthening older commerce,industry,recreation, high-volume flow of traffic,with
<br /> neighborhoods. open spaces,public utilities, some limitations on movement
<br /> public facilities,and other land and speed,and occasional
<br /> • Ingress: Access or entry point or uses as required by the(state's) backups on critical approaches.
<br /> entrance. Growth Management Act. Level of Serve D designates the
<br /> level where traffic nears an
<br /> • Intensity,land-use: The range • Landscaped visual barrier: unstable flow. Intersections still
<br /> or scale or concentration of Evergreen trees,and/or function,but short queues
<br /> findings,often measured by floor evergreen shrubs providing develop and cars may have to
<br /> area ratios or building coverage. equivalent buffering,planted to wait through one cycle during
<br /> The magnitude of activity provide a year-round dense short peaks. Level of Service E
<br /> affecting the development of screen within three years from represents traffic characterize by
<br /> densities,traffic flow, the time of planting. slow movement and frequent.
<br /> commercialism,tourism,and land (although momentary)stoppages.
<br /> use. Any ratio that assesses the • Landscaping,interior: A This type of congestion is
<br /> relative level of activity of a land landscaped area or areas within considered severe,but is not
<br /> use,including,but not limited to, the shortest circumferential line uncommon at peak traffic hours,
<br /> a floor area ratio,building defining the perimeter or exterior with frequent stopping,
<br /> coverage ratio,or impervious boundary of the parking or longstanding queues,and
<br /> surface ratio. loading area,or similar paved blocked intersections. Level of
<br /> area,excluding driveways or Service F describes
<br /> • Junkyard: A building structure, walkways providing access to the unsatisfactory stop-and-go traffic
<br /> or parcel of land,or portion facility(as applied to parking and characterized by"traffic jams"
<br /> thereof,used for collecting, loading facilities or to similar and stoppages of long duration.
<br /> storage,or sale of waste paper, paved areas). Vehicles at signalized
<br /> rags,scrap metal,rubber tires, intersections usually have to wait
<br /> bottles,or discarded material. • Landscaping,perimeter: A through one or more signal
<br /> Where such materials are a landscaped area adjoining and changes,and"upstream"
<br /> byproduct of a permitted use, outside the shortest intersections may be blocked by
<br /> such activity shall be considered circumferential line defining the the long queues.
<br /> outdoor storage. perimeter or exterior boundary of
<br /> the parking or loading area,or . • Live-work quarters: Buildings
<br /> • Kennel: Any premises,except similar paved area,excluding or spaces within buildings that
<br /> where accessory to an driveways or walkways providing are used jointly for commercial
<br /> agricultural use,where domestic access to the facility(as applied and residential purposes where
<br /> animals,such as dogs and cats, to parking and loading facilities or the residential use of the space is
<br /> are boarded,trained,or bred. to similar paved areas). secondary or accessory to the
<br /> primary use as a place of work.
<br /> • Kiosk: A freestanding structure • Large Retail Project: Any new
<br /> upon which temporary commercial retail building,whose • Loading space: An off-street
<br /> information and/or posters, total gross leasable area equals space on the same lot with a
<br /> notices,and announcements are or exceeds 25,000 square feet, building or group of buildings for
<br /> posted,or a freestanding building specifically mercantile uses, temporary parking of a
<br /> with one or more open sides from and/or shopping center uses. commercial vehicle while loading
<br /> which commercial activities are and unloading merchandise or
<br /> conducted. • Leapfrog development: New materials.
<br /> development separated from
<br /> • Land banking: The purchase of existing •development by • Lot: A parcel of land occupied or
<br /> land by a local government for substantial vacant land. intended for occupancy by a use
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