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practiced on a regular basis for regardless of the condition of _ completed by real or perceived
<br /> compensation;may include the other properties in the environmental contamination.
<br /> training of apprentices under neighborhood.
<br /> regulations of the board. • Buffer: A strip of land,fence,or
<br /> • Block: An area of land bounded co border of trees,etc.,between one
<br /> • Bed-and-Breakfast(B&B): A by a street,or by a combination x use and another,which may or
<br /> transient lodging establishment,
<br /> generally in a single-family
<br /> dwelling and/or detached
<br /> of streets and public parks, may not have trees and shrubs
<br /> cemeteries,railroad rights-of "�' planted for screening purposes,
<br /> way,exterior boundaries of a (0 designed to set apart one use
<br /> guesthouses,primarily engaged subdivision,shorelines of
<br /> (.0
<br /> area from another. An
<br /> in providing overnight or waterways,or corporate appropriate buffer may vary
<br /> otherwise temporary lodging for boundaries. -, depending on uses,districts,
<br /> the general public and mayPQ .0 size,etc.,and shall be
<br /> provide meals for compensation. • Board of adjustment: A local c, determined by the appropriate
<br /> body,appointed by the city local board.
<br /> • Berm: An earthen mound council,whose responsibility is to PR
<br /> designed to provide visual hear appeals from decisions of • Buffer strip: A portion of a lot
<br /> interest on a site,screen the director of planning and or a land area used to visually
<br /> undesirable views,reduce noise, development and to consider ia..k separate one use from another
<br /> or fulfill other such purposes. A requests for variances and through the use of vegetation,
<br /> man-made mound of earth in exceptions. screening and distance;to shield
<br /> excess of two feet in vertical or obstruct noise illumination,
<br /> height used to shield or buffer • Boarding house: A single- visual,or other incompatibilities
<br /> properties from adjoining uses, family dwelling where more than or nuisances. A buffer is
<br /> highways,or noise,or to control two,but fewer than six rooms are measured from the common
<br /> the direction of surface water provided for lodging for definite property line of the different uses.
<br /> flow. A mound or embankment of periods of times. Meals may or
<br /> earth,usually two to six feet in may not be provided,but there is • Buffer yard: A unit of land,
<br /> height. one common kitchen facility. No together with a specified type and
<br /> meals are provided to outside amount of planting thereon,and
<br /> • Best Management Practices: guests. any structures which may be
<br /> Conservation practices or required between land uses to
<br /> systems of practices and • Borrow pit: An area from which eliminate or minimize conflicts
<br /> management measures that: (a) soil or other unconsolidated between them.
<br /> control soil loss and reduce material are removed to be use,
<br /> water-quality degradation caused without further processing,as fill • Buffer zone: An area of land
<br /> by nutrients,animal waste, for activities such as landscaping, separating two distinct land uses
<br /> toxins,and sediment; (b) building construction,or highway that acts to soften or mitigate the
<br /> minimize adverse impacts to construction and maintenance. effects of one land use on the
<br /> surface water and groundwater Any place or premises where dirt, other.
<br /> flow,circulation patters,and to soil,sand,gravel,or other
<br /> the chemical,physical,and material is removed below the • Build out: Development of land
<br /> biological characteristics of grade of surrounding land,for to its full potential.
<br /> wetlands;and(c)includes any purpose other than that
<br /> allowing proper use and storage necessary and incidental to site • Buildable area: The area of a
<br /> of fertilizers/pesticides. grading or building construction. lot remaining after the minimum
<br /> yard and open space
<br /> • Big-box retail: A singular retail • Boundary: A line,which may or requirements of the zoning
<br /> or wholesale user who occupies may not follow a visible feature, ordinance have been met.
<br /> no less than 75,000 square feet that defines the limits of a
<br /> of gross floor area,typically geographic entity such as a • Building,unsafe: All buildings
<br /> requires high parking to building block,block numbering area, or structures that have any or all
<br /> area ratios and has a regional census tract,county,or place. of the following defects shall be
<br /> sales market. Regional deemed dangerous buildings: A.
<br /> retail/wholesale sales can • Breakaway Wall: A wall that is Whenever the building or
<br /> include,but are not limited to, not part of the structural support structure or any portion thereof,
<br /> membership warehouse clubs of the building and is intended because of(1)dilapidation,
<br /> that emphasize bulk sales, through its design and deterioration,or decay;(2)faulty
<br /> discount stores,and department construction to collapse under construction;(3)the removal,
<br /> stores. specific lateral loading forces movement,or instability of any .
<br /> without causing damage to the portion of the ground necessary
<br /> • Billboard: A billboard is any off- elevated portion of the building or for the purpose of supporting
<br /> site sign and governed by those the supporting foundation such building;(4)the
<br /> sections regarding off-site signs. system. deterioration,decay,or
<br /> inadequacy of its foundation;or
<br /> • Blight: Unsightly condition • Breezeway: A structure for the (5)any other cause,is subject to
<br /> including the accumulation of principal purpose of connecting structural failure under its design
<br /> debris,litter,rubbish,or rubble; the main building or buildings on usage. B. Whenever the
<br /> fences characterized by holes, a property with other main building or structure has been so
<br /> breaks,rot,crumbling,cracking,
<br /> peeling or rusting;landscaping
<br /> buildings or accessory buildings. damaged by fire,wind,
<br /> earthquake,or flood,or has
<br /> that is dead,characterized by • Brownfield: Abandoned,idled, become(1)an attractive
<br /> uncontrolled growth or lack of or underused industrial and nuisance to children;(2)a harbor
<br /> maintenance,or damaged;and commercial facilities where for vagrants,criminals,or
<br /> any other similar conditions of expansion or redevelopment is immoral persons;or as to(3)
<br /> disrepair and deterioration enable persons to resort thereto
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