As used in these regulations, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
A way or means of approach to provide vehicular or pedestrian entrance to or exit from a property.
Any driveway, street, curb cut, turnout or other means of providing for the movement of vehicles to or from the public/private roadway network.
For the purposes of stormwater management, structural or nonstructural and managerial techniques that are recognized to be the most effective and practical means to prevent or reduce non-point source pollutants from entering receiving waters in accordance with Stormwater Management Volumes I and II prepared by the MA Department of Environmental Protection and MA Office of Coastal Zone Management, as most recently revised.
A service drive providing vehicular access between two or more contiguous sites so the driver need not enter the public street system.
An opening in a restrictive median which provides for the specific movements and physically restricts other movements. Directional median opening for two opposing left or "U-turn" movements along a road segment are considered one directional median opening.
A commercial facility which provides a service directly to a motor vehicle or where the customer drives a motor vehicle onto the premises and to a window or mechanical device through or by which the customer is serviced without exiting the vehicle. This shall not include the selling of fuel at a gasoline filling station or the accessory functions of a car wash facility such as vacuum cleaning stations.
The distance between connections, measured from the closet edge of pavement of the driveway or curb cut to the next closest edge of the pavement along the public/private roadway.
Any restaurant serving the majority of its food in disposable containers, packages, or other similar wrapping, for consumption on or off the premises.
A driveway connecting two or more contiguous sites to the public/private street systems.
A level area 30 feet in depth at -1% grade at the intersection of the access connection and the public way.
Any lot having at least two contiguous sides abutting upon one or more streets, provided the interior angle at the intersection of such two sides is less than 135°.
A physical barrier in the roadway that separates traffic traveling in opposite directions, such as a concrete barrier or landscaped island.
An area of stacking spaces and driving lane provided for vehicles waiting for drive-through service, which is physically separated from other traffic and pedestrian circulation on the site.
An area within a stacking lane for vehicles waiting to order and/or finish a drive-through transaction.