designated as open space. Such open space may include parks, lakes, walkways, trails, playground and recreational facilities, golf and sports facilities, and surface easements for drainage and other utilities over areas not within the lines
Read it in the chapter →How this ordinance defines it
The operative definition is the local one. Codes routinely subdivide a category into tiers — “day care 2, family”, “group home 2” — and attach different permissions to each, so only Chesapeake’s own text settles what this covers.
structures of the school, including, without limitation, such structures as parking lots, ballfields, playgrounds , tennis courts and related athletic areas, unless such structures are to be lighted for nighttime use and any lighting structure is
Read it in the chapter →are not normally used for occupancy or storage (for example, fences, hedges and playground equipment would not be included); provided, however, that patios, decks and other similar structures which are more than forty-two inches in
Read it in the chapter →protection, disaster evacuation, civil defense, transportation, water, sewerage, flood protection, schools, parks, forests, playgrounds , recreational facilities, airports and other public requirements; 5. To protect against destruction of or encroachment upon historic areas and working waterfront
Read it in the chapter →designee. 6. Public parks and other noncommercial active recreational uses, including playing fields, playgrounds , courts, and impervious bikeways, provided such facilities do not cover more than fifty (50) percent of the minimum required conservation land.
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