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1305.04 Definitions improvement. This term includes structures that have incurred "substantial damage," regardless of the actual repair work performed. The term does not, however, include either: • Any project for improvement of a structure to correct existing violations of state or local health, sanitary, or safety code specifications which have been identified by the local code enforcement official and which are the minimum necessary to assure safe living conditions. • Any alteration of an "historic structure," provided that the alteration will not preclude the structure's continued designation as an "historic structure." For the purpose of this Ordinance, "historic structure" shall be as defined in 44 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 59.1. • Thrift Store. A business for which the stock of goods is primarily used and may include the following operational characteristics: Receipt of used items directly from the public at the business location. Processing, conditioning, cleaning, or repair of used or returned items for resale. Storage of used items on site for processing, resale, or disposal. Receipt of goods through purchase, consignment, or donation. (added 2/29/16) • Tower. Any pole, spire or structure, or any combination thereof, to which an antenna is attached, or which is designed for an antenna to be attached, and all supporting lines, cables, wires and braces; including but not limited to a free-standing radio (including ham radio and private radio transmitting) or television receiving antenna, a windmill, and a wind -power generator. • Townhouse. A single-family dwelling, which maintains private ingress and egress, contains no independent dwellings above or below it, and is attached to other similar dwellings by a common wall. • Use. The purpose for which land or premises or a building thereon is designated, arranged or intended, or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained. • Use, accessory. A use which is incidental to the principal use of the lot on which it is maintained or conducted. • Use, principal. The primary or predominant use for which the lot and structure, if any located thereon, is conducted or maintained. • Use, principal multiple -operation. A business or industrial operation which consists of two or more distinguishable uses, all of which are dependent upon each other, but none of which is predominately or clearly the principal use and all of which are generally compatible with the permitted allowable uses in the district. 22