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Glossary of Terms

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In-Kind

  • In-kind is defined as a replacement with the same material type, design, dimension, texture, detailing, and exterior appearance.

Inclusionary Housing Project

Individual with a Disability

  • For the purposes of Reasonable Accommodation (Sec. 13B.5.5.), as defined under the Acts, individual with a disability is any person who has a physical or mental impairment that limits one or more major life activities, anyone who is regarded as having that type of impairment or, anyone who has a record of that type of impairment.

Indoor Recreation

  • Pursuant to Sec. 5D.4.2. (Indoor Recreation), indoor recreation is defined as any indoor use providing sports, fitness, leisure, amusement, or recreational facilities. Indoor recreation includes the following uses when fully indoors: sports courts, health clubs, spas, fitness, martial arts, and dance studios, gymnasiums, aquatics centers, bowling alleys, billiard halls, gaming arcades, ice skating and roller rinks, skate parks, play facilities, and amusement rides.

Indoor Recreation: Commercial

Indoor Recreation: Public

Industrial Homework

Instructional Services

  • Pursuant to Sec. 5D.6.6. (Instructional Services), instructional services are defined as any establishment primarily engaged in offering avocational or recreational educational courses to adults or children for the purposes of play, amusement, or relaxation, including education offered for the intent of teaching the fundamentals, skills, or techniques of a hobby or activity. Includes establishments offering programs in art, cooking, drama, driving, language, music, sewing, tutoring, or other similar forms of self-improvement. For vocational and other educational uses, see Sec. 5D.3.9. (School).

Integrated Parking

  • Integrated parking is defined as a parking structure within or attached to a building that is primarily used for a non-parking uses, such as residential or commercial uses. For a parking structure to be considered an integrated parking structure, the motor vehicle use area in a building shall not be greater than the floor area of the building.

Intensification of Use

  • Pursuant to Sec. 14.1.15.B.6.b. (Intensification of Use), intensification of use is defined as work that increases the intensity of a use, such as an increase in dwelling units, seating capacity, or the number of people in care.

Interim Lodging Unit Housing Project

  • Interim lodging unit housing project is defined as the physical re-purposing or adaptation of an existing lodging unit, for use as supportive housing or transitional housing for persons experiencing homelessness or those at risk of homelessness.

Interior

  • Interior is defined as all enclosed and covered areas included within surrounding exterior walls of a building.

Interior Wall

  • Interior wall is defined as any wall which is within the building envelope and that is not separating the building's interior from its exterior.

Inundation

  • Inundation is defined as ponded water, or water in motion, of sufficient depth to damage property due to the presence of the water or to the deposit of silt.