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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.
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