Chapter 26 - City of Punta Gorda

(41) CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY [CO]
A certificate allowing the occupancy or use of a building and certifying
that the structure or use has been constructed or will be used in
compliance with this Ordinance and all other applicable regulations.
(42) CHILD CARE FACILITY – SEE DAY CARE CENTERS
(43) CIVIC USES
Uses intended to serve as public gathering places. Such uses include
governmental offices, post offices, and non-profit or charitable clubs and
organizations.
(44) CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT
Cluster development means the grouping of buildings in order to
conserve land resources and provide for innovation in the design of the
project including minimizing stormwater runoff impacts. This term
includes nonresidential development as well as single-family residential
and multi-family developments.
(45) CLUSTER HOUSING
A development design technique that concentrates buildings in specific
areas on a site to allow remaining land to be used for recreation,
common open space, or the preservation of historically or
environmentally sensitive features.
(46) COLONNADE
A series of regularly spaced columns supporting an entablature and
usually one side of a roof structure.
(47) COMMERCIAL USE
All retail sales or wholesale business establishments marketing goods
and services. Examples include retail shops, restaurants,
hotels/motels/inns, convenience stores, etc.
(48) COMMERCIAL VEHICLE
Includes any motor vehicle designed or used principally for carrying
things other than passengers and includes a motor vehicle to which has
been added a cabinet box, platform, rack or other equipment for the
purpose of carrying merchandise or equipment other than the person or
effects of the passengers.
(49) CONGREGATE HOUSING
Any Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services licensed
building or buildings, section of a building, or distinct portion of a
building, residence, private home, boarding home, home for the aged, or
other place, whether operated for profit or not, which undertakes through
its ownership or management to provide, for a period exceeding 24
hours, housing, food service, and one or more personal services for adult
resident clients, not related to the owner or administrator by blood or
marriage, who require such services.
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