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Sports and health facility means a facility where members or nonmembers pay a fee to use <br />equipment or space for the purpose of physical exercise or training. A sports and health facility may <br />include aerobics, weight training, muscular exercise programs, yoga, Pilates, court games, jogging, or <br />other similar activities. It may provide as an accessory use personal services to patrons, including but not <br />limited to therapeutic massage, tanning, saunas, and whirlpools. <br />Stable or barn, private, means a building or structure used or intended to be used for the keeping of <br />hoofed animals belonging to the occupant of the property, and kept for noncommercial purposes. <br />Stable or barn, public, means a building or structure used or intended to be used for housing of <br />horses, mules, donkeys or ponies which are owned by those other than the occupant of the property, <br />where animals may be rented for a fee for riding purposes or where riding lessons may be provided. <br />Stock farm means a parcel of land comprising an area of ten acres or more that is used to house and <br />feed any number of farm animals when such farm animals are kept for profit. <br />Stockpiling means on -site storage of ten cubic yards or more of soil and/or aggregate in a <br />concentrated state where the material is intended to be distributed throughout the site or exported from the <br />site. <br />Street means a dedicated public right-of-way not less than 50 feet in width which affords a primary <br />means of access to abutting property. <br />Street or road, private, means any private way set aside as a permanent right-of-way for vehicular <br />access 50 feet or more in width. <br />Structure means anything which is built, constructed or erected, an edifice or building of any kind, <br />or any piece of work artificially built up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner, <br />which requires a location on, below or above the ground, land or water, or attached to something having a <br />location on the ground, land or water. <br />Study and research center means one or more structures, together with the land used in connection <br />therewith, whether contiguous or standing separately, including any building used as a temporary or <br />permanent residence, or a park, nature or playground area, owned or operated by one or more nonprofit <br />charitable, scientific or educational organizations, and used primarily as a center for study, learning, <br />research or educational oriented conferences. <br />Use means the purpose or activity for which the land or building is designated, arranged or intended, <br />or for which it is occupied, utilized or maintained, and shall include the performance of such activity as <br />defined by the performance standards of this chapter. <br />Use, conditional, means those occupations, vocations, skills, arts, businesses, professions or uses <br />specifically designated in each zoning use district which, for their respective conduct, exercise or <br />performance in such designated use districts, may require reasonable but special, peculiar, unusual or <br />extraordinary limitations, facilities, or regulations in such use district for the promotion or preservation of <br />the general public welfare, health, convenience or safety in such use and in the city and, therefore, may be <br />permitted in such use district only by a conditional use permit, which is designed to meet the problem that <br />arises where certain uses, although generally compatible with the basic use classification of a particular <br />zone, should not be permitted to be located as a matter of right in every area included within the zone <br />because of hazards inherent in the use itself or special problems which its proposed location may <br />represent. <br />Use, permitted, means a use which may be lawfully established in a particular district, provided it <br />conforms with all requirements, regulations and performance standards (if any) of such districts. <br />Use, principal, means the main use of land or buildings as distinguished from subordinate or <br />accessory uses. A principal use may be either permitted or conditional. <br />92 <br />