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Caliper: The diameter of plant material, measured at six inches above grade for calipers of up to four inches, and 12 inches above grade for larger calipers.

Campground : A commercial recreational facility developed to accommodate the use of travel trailers, motorized homes, tents, cabins, or other similar device or facility used for temporary occupancy, with or without facilities for the exclusive use of its occupants. This definition shall not include manufactured homes, manufactured home parks or subdivisions, or the storage of recreational equipment or vehicles.

Canopy: A roof-like cover extending over an outdoor area for the purpose of sheltering individuals or equipment from the weather.

Cardinal Direction: One of the four principal compass points: north, south, east, or west.

Care Center – Adult Care Center: A facility where an individual, agency, or organization provides supervision or care for more than six adults in a place other than their usual place of abode.

Care Center – Child Care Center: A program where three or more children less than 13 years old receive care on regular basis of at least once a week for more than four hours from persons not related to the children in care.

Care Center – Child Care Center in Residence: A child care center located within a residence and regulated by the State as a center located in residence (CLIR).

Care Center – Preschool: An educational establishment that offers early childhood education prior to the start of required education at the primary school level.

Cemetery: A place used or to be used and dedicated or designated for interment of human remains or pet animal remains.

Certificate of Compliance: A statement, signed by an administrative officer, setting forth that a building, structure, or use complies with this Ordinance and Building Codes and that the same may be used for the purposes stated on the permit.

Changeable Copy: The characters, letters, or illustrations of a sign that change, either manually or electronically, without altering the sign.

Chemical Storage Facility: means a building, portion of a building, or exterior area adjacent to a building used for the storage of any chemical or chemically reactive products.

Chicken: Poultry or fowl of the species Gallus gallus/G. gallus domesticus. The species includes many different breeds of chicken.

Chicken Coop: A structure for the sheltering of chickens.

Chicken Pen: An enclosure that is connected to and/or surrounding a chicken coop for the purpose of allowing chickens to leave the coop while remaining in an enclosed predator-safe environment.

Clerestory Window: A window set in a roof structure or high in a wall (above eye-level), typically used for daylighting.

Clinic: Establishments where humans receive treatment of illnesses or pregnancy, or examinations by a doctor, dentist, optician, psychologist, or other similar medical professional on an out-patient basis.

Club or Lodge: A building or site used by a non-profit membership organization for recreational or social purposes.

Cluster Box Unit (CBU): A centralized grouping of individually locked and keyed mailboxes meeting the specifications of the United States Postal Service.

Cluster Development: A residential subdivision that concentrates development on a portion of a site, leaving the remainder in open space. Cluster developments achieve the land use intensity objectives by virtue of limits to overall density rather than minimum lot sizes.

Collector Street: A local street which serves as a connector street between local residential streets, commercial development and the thoroughfare system; such streets typically collect traffic from 250 to 400 dwelling units.

Co-Living: A dwelling unit where individuals reside by leasing a bedroom, the collective individuals do not qualify as a family as defined in this Ordinance, and where bathrooms may be shared but the common spaces and kitchen are shared. No individually leased rooms maintain separate cooking facilities. This definition does not include a fraternity or sorority, or a hotel, bed and breakfast inn, or other overnight accommodation.

Collocation: The placement or installation of wireless facilities on existing structures including electrical transmission towers, water towers, buildings, and other structures capable of structurally supporting the attachment of wireless facilities in compliance with applicable codes.

Columbarium: A structure or building substantially exposed above ground intended to be used for the interment of the cremated remains of a deceased person or animal.

Commercial Dormitory: A structure specifically designed for a long term stay by students of a college, university, or non-profit organization for the purpose of providing rooms for sleeping purposes. One common kitchen and some common gathering rooms for social purposes may also be provided.

Commercial Speech: Any expression related solely to the economic interests of the speaker and its audience, or as otherwise defined by a court of competent jurisdiction.

Committed Elements: See Elements, Commitments.

Commitments: Elements submitted as part of a development plan associated with a zoning map change, which are binding and establish the level of development allowed absent further zoning action except as otherwise allowed or required under this Ordinance. Formerly known as "committed elements."

Common Signage Plan: A plan delineating unifying characteristics for signs associated with a development project or complex.

Completion of Construction or Development: No further land-disturbing activity is required on a phase of a project except that which is necessary for establishing a permanent ground cover.

Comprehensive Plan: The overall development plan for the community which has been officially adopted to provide long-range development policies including all specified individual elements thereof among which are the plans for land intensities; land subdivision; circulation; and community facilities, utilities and services.

Conditional Letter of Map Revision (CLOMR): A formal review and comment issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as to whether a proposed project complies with the minimum NFIP floodplain management criteria, and direction on revisions that will need to be made to the NFIP maps and/or study upon completion of the project.

Condominium: A form of property ownership whereby the owner gains ownership of an interior space within a building. The building structure, the land under the building, and all of the surrounding land is commonly owned by all the inhabitants on a proportional basis.

Conference Center: See “Event Venue.”

Congregate Living Facility: A residential use which undertakes, for a period exceeding 24 hours, care, housing, food service and one or more personal services for persons not related to the owner or administrator.

Contractors: Individuals or firms engaged in the construction of buildings, either residences or commercial structures, as well as activities such as paving, highway construction, and utility construction.

Convalescent Center or Nursing House: A facility that provides nursing services and custodial care on a 24 hour basis for three or more unrelated individuals who for reasons of illness, physical infirmity, or advanced age require such services.

Convenience-Oriented Use: An establishment that provides frequently or recurrently needed items for household use.

Convenience Store: A retail store with a floor area of less than 5,000 square feet that sells groceries and may also sell gasoline but not including vehicle service stations (limited or full).

Corner Tower Element: A corner tower element is an accentuated vertical element located on a building corner at a street intersection allowed to be taller than the rest of the building.

Correctional Facilities: Publicly or privately operated facilities housing persons awaiting trial or persons serving a sentence after being found guilty of a criminal offense.

Crop: Cultivated plants or agricultural produce, such as but not limited to grain, vegetables, or fruit.

Cul-de-sac: A short street having only one end open to traffic and the other being permanently terminated with a vehicular turn-around provided.

Current Conditions Hydrology: The flood discharges associated with the land-use conditions existing within the drainage area of a watercourse at the time a flood study of the watercourse was conducted. Current conditions flood discharges and historical flood study information are published in the Flood Insurance Study.