In this subtitle, the following words have the meanings indicated:
(1) “Activity space” means a public or private area designed for strolling, gathering, playing, cultural activity, community activity, or other social event, and may include features such as a village green, plaza or square, courtyard, pocket park, rooftop garden, usable lawn or terrace, pool area, playground, ballfield, and other similar spaces.
(i) “Activity space, private” means an area designed for the exclusive use of residents in an individual development or defined customers or clients in a commercial or office site.
(ii) “Activity space, public” means an area that is designed for public activities on sites with non-residential uses. These areas are intended for the shared use of the public, site occupants, and site residents.
(iii) “Activity space” does not mean required public sidewalks and pedestrian or bicycle facilities, unless designed as integrated components of an on-site or adjacent activity space, driveways, parking spaces, passenger drop-offs, or loading areas.
(2) “Community amenity” means a feature in a public activity space that improves the community’s aesthetic, character, or quality of life, including public art, monuments, decorative fountains, multi-modal transportation amenities or facilities, bikeshares, picnic tables and benches, parks or other recreational facilities, educational or directional kiosks, or amenities listed in the “Suggested Proffers” section of the Odenton Town Center Master Plan.
(3) “Green area” means pervious areas including lawns, planters, green roofs, landscaped areas, forest and sensitive preservation areas, buffers, nonstructural stormwater management facility areas, planted parking lot strips and islands, floodplains, streams, wetlands, tree pits, exterior planted areas that contribute to creating green relief, infiltration or evapotranspiration; and other similar areas regardless of usability or accessibility.
(4) “Odenton Town Center" means the area established by the Odenton Town Center Master Plan, which was formerly titled as the Odenton Growth Management Area.
(5) “Site” means any lot or parcel of land, or combination of lots or parcels of land that are contiguous and being developed as part of a common subdivision or site development plan.
(Bill No. 84-23)