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Commercial Amusement, Outdoor means uses that provide commercial amusement outdoors, including, but not limited to: athletic field, park, stadium, or arena, commercial; baseball field/park; farmers' market; golf course or golf driving range; miniature golf course; model airplane center or go-cart track; motorcycle race track ; outdoor markets, limited to farm products and new merchandise; pool (commercial); or other uses that the Director of Planning interprets to be functionally similar to a use in this list.

Commercial Uses means a use category that includes uses engaged in the provision of goods, services, and repair activities to retail consumers and, to a lesser extent, other businesses. Uses in this use category include: Bank, Credit Union, and Financial Services ; Brewpub , Microbrewery, Microdistillery, or Microwinery ; Building Materials and Hardware Sales ; Fuel Sales ; Grocery ( Food Sales ); Heavy Machinery Sales and Rentals ; Home Furnishing Store ; Kennel ; Manufactured Home Sales and Storage ; Hotel or Motel ; Office, General ; Pawn Shop ; Personal Service ; Recreational Vehicle Parks and Campgrounds ; Repair Service ; Restaurant ; Retail Sales ; Self-Storage, Mini-Warehouse; Sexually Oriented Business; Smoke Shop or Tobacco Store ; Studio (Arts,...

Common Destination means an area of focused community activity, usually defining the approximate center of a Pedestrian Shed . It may include without limitation one or more of the following: a Civic Open Space ; a Civic Building ; a Commercial center; a Third Place ; a Meeting Hall ; or a transit station and may act as the social center of a neighborhood.

Common Ownership means the collective ownership of a property by two or more persons . The property is not held in any one person 's name in particular, but in the names of all the persons .

Community Garden means an area of land managed and maintained to grow and harvest food or horticultural products for personal or group consumption or for off-site sale or donation.

Concept Plan means an initial submittal describing a Planned Unit Development project.

Contiguous means "touching" or "in contact."

Contractor's Shop and/or Service Yard means an area used to store and maintain construction equipment and other materials customarily used in the trade carried on by the construction contractor. This definition includes building materials, storage ; contractor plan or storage yard ; roofing contractor's shop ; septic tank service; insulation applicator business; pest control service; and refrigeration service. This definition excludes temporary contractor's storage associated with the site of an on-going construction project.

Contributing Building, Structure, or Site means a building , structure , or site that is part of a local, state, or federal historic registry, and that retains a significant amount of its physical integrity, whether exposed or concealed, and character-defining features, or that is associated with significant people or events.

Cornice means a projecting horizontal decorative molding along the top of a wall or building .

Correctional Institution means a facility providing housing and care for individuals legally confined for violations of law. This definition includes prison, jail, or other place of incarceration.

Crescent means a bulbous additional right-of-way dedication where two streets intersect creating a crescent shape, which allows for vehicle turning movement and/or access to the lots abutting the right-of-way . Lots fronting onto a crescent shall follow the same minimum front setback requirement as lots fronting onto a cul-de-sac .

Cul-de-sac means a bulbous street or passage closed at one end, the design of which shall adhere to the City of Lubbock Engineering Minimum Design Standards and Specifications .

Dancing means to move the body, especially the feet, in rhythm, ordinarily to music.

Dedication Deed means a legal instrument that designates property, usually within a subdivision , with a particular legal description. It also designates the boundaries of land reserved for public use, such as streets or alleys , is signed by the owner (s) and primary lienholder(s) of the property being platted and identifies easements for particular purposes such as utilities . A plat accompanies and illustrates the legal description and right-of-way dedications from the dedication deed (or Dedicatory Certificate).

Design Engineer means the professional engineer responsible for the design of water, sewer, paving and/or drainage improvements.

Developer means a person who causes land to be divided into a subdivision or a person who submits an application to the City for a land development project.

Development means any manmade change in improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures , mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation, drilling operations or storage of equipment or materials.

Development Application means a written or digital request to receive approval of a development review procedure listed in Article 39.07 , Development Review Procedures.

Development Lot means a parcel or abutting parcels of land, that have definite boundaries, which is improved as a single unit of use.