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<br />City Council or Council - The City Council of the City of Centerville. <br /> <br />Clear Cutting - The indiscriminate removal of trees, shrubs, or undergrowth with the <br />intention of preparing real property for non-agricultural development purposes. This <br />definition shall not include the selective removal of non-native tree and shrub species when <br />the soil is left relatively undisturbed, removal of dead trees or normal mowing operations. <br /> <br />Clinic - Any establishment where human patients are examined and treated by doctors or <br />dentists but not hospitalized overnight. <br /> <br />Club - Any establishment operated for social, recreational, or educational purposes but <br />open only to members and not the general public. <br /> <br />Cluster Housing - The grouping of single-family dwellings within specified areas while <br />maintaining the same overall allowable density in that same area. <br /> <br />Commercial Use - An occupation, employment, or enterprise that is carried on for profit by <br />the owner, lessee, or licensee. <br /> <br />Commission - The Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Centerville. <br /> <br />Commissioner - A member of the Planning and Zoning Commission. <br /> <br />Comprehensive Plan - A compilation of policy statements, goals, standards and maps for <br />guiding the physical, social and economic development of the City and including a land use <br />plan, a community facilities plan and a transportation plan which has been prepared and <br />adopted by the City of Centerville. <br /> <br />Conditional Use - A use, which because of special problems of control requires <br />reasonable limitations peculiar to the use for the protection of the public welfare and the <br />integrity of the Comprehensive Plan. <br /> <br />Conditional Use Permit - A permit, issued by the Council, in accordance with procedures <br />specified in this Ordinance as a flexibility device to enable the council to assign dimensions <br />to a proposed use or conditions surrounding it after consideration of adjacent uses and their <br />functions and the special problems which the proposed use permits. <br /> <br />Contractors Yard - An area where vehicles, equipment and/or construction materials and <br />supplies commonly used by building, excavation, roadway construction and similar <br />contractors are stored or serviced. The contractor's yard includes both areas of outdoor <br />storage and areas confined within a completely enclosed building used in conjunction with <br />a contractor's business. <br /> <br />Coverage - That portion of a lot covered by principal and accessory use structures. <br />Cul-de-sac - A local street, one end of which is closed and consists of a circular turn <br /> <br />Page 4 of 65 <br />