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Radio Frequency Emissions: Any electromagnetic radiation or other communications signal emitted from an antenna or antenna-related equipment on the ground, antenna-supporting structure, building, or other vertical projection.

Receiving Watercourse: A lake, natural watercourse or other natural or manmade area into which stormwater runoff flows from a land-disturbing activity.

Recreational Vehicle: A vehicle, which is: (a) built on a single chassis; (b) 400 square feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal projection; (c) designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable by a light duty truck; and (d) designed primarily not for use as a permanent dwelling, but as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel, or seasonal use.

Recreational Vehicle (RV) Park: Land used or intended to be used, let, or rented for occupancy by vacationing transient campers traveling by automobile or otherwise, or for occupancy by tents, or other movable or temporary sleeping quarters of any kind, together with automobile parking spaces and incidental utility structures and facilities required and provided in connection with the use. This definition shall not include trailer sales lots where unoccupied trailers are parked for inspection and sale.

Recycling Center: A building or an area where the primary activity is the separation of materials prior to shipment for remanufacture into new materials. This shall not include junkyards or wrecking yards.

Recycling Drop-Off Site: A site providing containers for the collection of recyclable materials, typically an accessory use. Recyclable materials are transported from the drop off site to another location for processing.

Reference Level: The top of the lowest floor for structures within Special Flood Hazard Areas and Future Conditions Flood Hazard Areas designated as Zone AE, A, A99, AO, or X (Future).

Regulatory Flood Protection Elevation: The elevation above mean sea level to which the reference level of all structures and other development located within Special Flood Hazard Areas and Future Conditions Flood Hazard Areas must be protected.

1. In Special Flood Hazard Areas where Base Flood Elevations (BFEs) have been determined, this elevation shall be the BFE plus two feet of freeboard.

2. In Special Flood Hazard Areas where no BFE has been established, this elevation shall be at least five feet above the highest adjacent grade.

3. In Future Conditions Flood Hazard Areas this elevation shall be the Future Conditions Flood Elevation plus two feet of freeboard.

Remedy a Violation: To bring a structure or other development into compliance with the requirements of this ordinance and, when appropriate, State requirements.

Repair Shop: A structure or area where the principal activity is the repair of equipment, and which is conducted in a totally enclosed building. This does not include vehicle repair.

Repetitive Loss: Flood-related damages sustained by a structure on two separate occasions during a 10-year period for which the cost of repairs at the time of each such flood event, on the average, equals or exceeds 25% of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred.

Reservation: The withholding by a private entity of specific real estate from development pending acquisition by a public agency.

Residential District: Any zoning district with the "R" designation, (RR, RS-20, etc.), including the PDR District.

Residential Street: Streets less than one mile in length that do not connect thoroughfares or major traffic generators that typically do not collect traffic from more than 25 dwelling units; or a loop street less than 2,500 feet in length.

Restaurant: An establishment primarily engaged in the retail sale of food, where the sale of alcoholic drinks, such as beer, ale, wine, and liquor, may also occur as a secondary function. Food and alcoholic drinks are primarily consumed on the premises where sold or in a designated social district; however, the take‐out of food and drink may occur, including to patrons who remain in vehicles.

Retail Stores and Shops: Establishments selling goods to the public for consumption but not for resale, usually in small quantities, as well as services incidental to the sale of these goods including the leasing or repairing of merchandise for public consumption.

Retreat House: See “Event Venue.”

Ribbon Driveway : Also called “strip driveway,” a driveway that consists of two parallel strips of concrete, pavers, or similar all-weather material with groundcover or similar pervious material in between.

Right-of-Way: A strip of land acquired by reservation, dedication, prescription or condemnation and intended to be occupied by a street, trail, rail corridor, or public utility.

Riverine: means relating to, formed by, or resembling a river (including tributaries), stream, brook, etc.

Road: See “Street, Public” and “Street, Private.”

Roadside Stand: A structure (generally an open air structure) used for display and sale of products grown or produced on-site and the incidental sale of products from off-site. Sales are conducted on a temporary or seasonal basis.

Rural Village: An area delineated on the Future Land Use Map, within the Rural Tier, that can include residential, commercial, office, institutional, and open space/recreation land uses.

Runoff: Water from precipitation that flows off a property.