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Rehabilitative Care Facility - A facility licensed by the appropriate state agency, as a <br />group care facility for individuals who are handicapped, aged, disabled, youthful <br />offenders, addicted to alcohol or drugs,. requi ring. professional health care, adult <br />supervision, or rehabilitation. <br />Residential Floor Area - Residential floor area shall st from as the outum faces <br />areas for residential use on all floors of the building measured <br />of the exterior walls, including halls, lobbies, stairways, elevator shafts, enclosed <br />porches and balconies, and below -grade floor areas used for habitation and <br />residential access. <br />Not countable as floor area are: <br />1) Open terraces, patios, atriums, or balconies <br />2). Carports, garages, breezeways, toolsheds <br />3) Special- purpose areas for common use of occupants, such as recreation <br />rooms of social halls <br />4) Staff space for therapy or examination in care housing <br />5) Basement space not used for living accommodations <br />6) Any commercial or other, non - residential space. <br />Residential Land Area - Residential land area shall be construed as all land for <br />residential development and related uses, including open space, within the district in <br />the case of PD -H zoning, or o lot or tract where <br />Such lands shallrbecorlstrued to include streets locations <br />are controlled by these regulations. <br />entirely within, residential portions of the development, common open space, and <br />lands accepted for dedication for public purposes. Residential land area shall be <br />included in residential land area. (as for example, in the case of a multi - family building <br />with ten percent of its floor area in accessory commercial and service uses). <br />Amended <br />t Plan - A document and map, submitted as a part of a Mayor <br />11/5/03 Resources Managemen <br />Subdivision, Class A Special Use Permit application or a Major Subdivision, Planned <br />Development Atlas Amendment with SUP application, that sets forth, in detail, the <br />location of and the proposed methods for: <br />1) protection of natural resources (i.e. habitat maintenance, existing vegetation, and <br />mitigation of environmentally sensitive areas), ro osed <br />2) ownership and maintenance of open spaces (common open space, p p <br />conservation easements, and landscape buffers) <br />3) provision of services (solid waste management to include recycling, storm water <br />management (temporary and permanent), irrigation systems to include the <br />source of water, <br />4) the handling of land clearing debris. <br />Restaurant - An establishment whose principal business is the sale of food and <br />beverages to the customer in a ready -to- consume state, and whose design or <br />principal method of operation includes one or -both of the following: <br />a) Customers, normally provided with <br />employee individual rdCOUnter a ds <br />and /or beverages by a restaurant P Y e at the same table o <br />which said items are consumed. <br />b) A cafeteria style setting is provided where food, and /or beverages are <br />consumed within the restaurant structure. <br />22 -25 <br />