For the purposes of the Zoning Ordinance, words used in the present tense shall include the future; words used in the singular shall include the plural; and the plural the singular; the word “shall” is mandatory and not discretionary, the word "may" is a permissive requirement, and the word "should" is a preferred requirement; and the word "person" includes a firm, association, organization, partnership, trust, company, or corporation as well as an individual.
Words not particularly defined herein shall be defined as found in The New Illustrated Book of Development Definitions, Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University. If not defined therein, words shall be defined as found in Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary on CD-ROM.