The following definitions shall be applicable in the TND District. When there are conflicts between the terms used herein and definitions as provided elsewhere in the Code of Zoning Codes, the provisions of this district shall take precedence. Terms used throughout this district shall take their commonly accepted meaning unless otherwise defined in this Zoning Codes. Terms requiring interpretation specific to this district are as follows:
(1) "A" Street. A street which is designed with, or otherwise characterized by, features that promote the safety, comfort, and convenience of pedestrians, and does so in a relatively exceptional way. Such streets typically feature sidewalks at least five feet wide, narrow streets, buildings pulled up close to the street, no front yard off-street parking, pedestrian-scaled lighting, on- street parking, landscaped medians, articulated building walls, aligned building facades, a building entrance on the street, modest turning radii, trash receptacles remote from the sidewalk, and outdoor mechanical equipment on the side, rear or roof of buildings.
(2) Alley. A vehicular passageway providing secondary and/or service access to the sides or rear of building lots.
(3) Artisanal Use. The manufacture and sale of artifacts utilizing only hand- held and/or table-mounted electrical tools. Such a use must be contained within a completely enclosed building.
(4) Block. The gross area of lots and adjacent alleys, circumscribed by streets.
(5) Civic Building. A building, either publicly or privately owned, located on a civic lot used for any permitted or required civic use.
(6) Colonnade. A roof or building structure, extending over the sidewalk, open to the street and sidewalk except for supporting columns or piers. Awnings are permitted within the TND but are not considered colonnades. Colonnades shall not cause roof drainage into the public right-of-way.
(7) Cornice Line. A molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition. A cornice line shall project a minimum of 2 inches from the front elevation of the structure.
(8) Drive-through. Establishments which provide services or sales that are extended mechanically or personally to customers who do not exit their motorized vehicle. Such facilities include banking facilities, restaurants, food sales, dry cleaning, express mail services and other services. Not included in this definition are auto fuel pumps and depositories which involve no immediate exchange or dispersal to the customer, such as mailboxes, library book depositories and recycling facilities.
(9) Edge Area. A continuous open area which defines and buffers the edge of a TND and each neighborhood proper. Edge areas shall be preserved in perpetuity to buffer adjacent land uses, preserve natural areas, and provide linked greenway corridors.
(10) Formal landscaping. Street trees or shrubs that form an aligned street wall parallel to the street. When used, brick-paved sidewalks or tree grates may be required to be constructed using engineered soil to accommodate root growth for long-term tree stability and infrastructural compatibility. This tree arrangement forms an intimate, comfortable, dignified public place along a corridor. The arrangement is often useful to visually "narrow down" a corridor when facing buildings on a street are set too far apart or are of insufficient height to establish a comfortable street width to building height ratio of 3:1 to 1:1.
(11) Front Porch An un-air conditioned roofed structure attached to the front and along a side walked street side of the unit, having a minimum depth of 6 feet and a minimum width of 12 feet. Except for insect screening and supporting columns, front porches shall not be enclosed above the minimum railing height allowed by the Standard Building Code. All or a portion of the front porch may encompass a ramp providing handicap access. Front porches may encroach up to 10 feet beyond the build-to line.
(12) Frontage. That side of a lot abutting a street right-of-way. When a lot abuts more than one street, it is that side that abuts the more primary street or the street designed for the highest pedestrian volume. For a corner lot, all sides abutting a street shall be considered frontage.
(13) Lodging Use. Buildings providing food service and bedrooms for rent or lease.
(14) Lodging Use, Limited. The provision of no more than 4 bedrooms for rent or lease. Food service may be included between the hours of 6:00 am to 11:00 am. The maximum length of stay shall not exceed 14 days.
(15) Lot or Building Lot. A separately platted portion of private land, not including the specified sidewalk area.
(16) Meeting Hall. A building designed for public assembly.
(17) Neighborhood Proper. The built-up area planned for development within a TND, including blocks, streets, squares, and parks, but excluding adjacent edge areas and through streets.
(18) Office Use, Limited. The transaction of business or the supply of professional services, employing no more than eight (8) persons.
(19) Outbuilding. A detached accessory use building on a residential lot, for residential, parking, or storage use only.
(20) Park. A public open space whose area is delineated by the surrounding building frontage lines within the neighborhood proper. Parks shall be surrounded by building frontage lines on at least 50 percent of the park's perimeter.
(21) Pedestrian Pathways. Interconnecting paved walkways that provide pedestrian passage through blocks running from street to street. For the purposes of this district, pathways are not sidewalks.
(22) Plaza. An open space area within a town center on which many or all Shopfront lots front. Plazas shall be limited to parking, landscaping, and permanent architectural and/or water oriented features.
(23) Private Open Space. That space on each building lot that is for the private use of the inhabitants of such lot. Said space shall be unenclosed except for being fenced or walled, and open to the sky except for roofed porches. Atriums, gardens, garden courts, walks, patios, and other similar spaces shall count as private open space. Up to one third of the private open space area may be a roof terrace.
(24) Screening wall. A wall made of fieldstone, brick, stucco, wrought-iron (or equivalent to wrought-iron), or wood picket excluding round industrial railing and chain link fence.
(25) Square. An outdoor public civic tract whose area is defined by streets or adjacent buildings. Squares shall include streets on at least three sides. Squares shall be surrounded by Shopfronts, Rowhouses, or Civic Use lots on at least 60 percent of their perimeter. No more than 40 percent of the square may be used for parking.
(26) Streetedge. The vertical face formed by building facades, street trees, and screening walls which is aligned along a street and forms a comfortable people-scaled space.
(27) Street Vista. A view through or along a street centerline which is at least 600 feet in length.
(28) Through Street. A major collector or arterial street which serves more than one neighborhood, or carries traffic between neighborhoods proper.
(29) Town Center. An optional and accessory use to the TND providing for larger scale commercial Shopfront Uses in buildings that front a plaza.
(30) Vertical integration. Mixed, dissimilar land uses are contained within the same building usually on different floors of a multi-story building. By contrast, a horizontal integration represents a mix of land uses that are near each other but in separate buildings.
(Ord. 41-01. Passed 8-20-01.)