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Academic School
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Animal Hospital
An establishment designed to provide medical care to animals and which may have the capability of providing on-site overnight care and boarding but does not include outdoor kennels or runs.
Apartment
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 A room or suite of rooms in a building intended or designed for use as a single dwelling unit, provided with separate cooking and sanitary facilities.
Art Dealer
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An establishment engaged in the sale of works of art.
Artisan, Craftsman and Photograph Studio
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The workshop or studio of an artist, craftsperson, sculptor or photographer, which workshop is primarily used for on-site production of unique custom goods through the use of hand tools or small-scale equipment, and only incidentally used, on an infrequent basis if at all, as an accessory gallery or for incidental sales.
ATM Facility
Automotive Collision Shop
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An establishment primarily engaged in the major repair of Automobiles and other non-Commercial Motor Vehicles, including the straightening of body parts, painting, welding, installation or repair of equipment or parts on motorized vehicles such as mufflers, brakes, tires, radios, transmissions, glass, and engines or engine parts and short-term outdoor storage of Automobiles and other non-Commercial Motor Vehicles until such repairs are performed, but excluding dismantling or salvage.
Automotive Convenience Store
An establishment primarily engaged in gasoline, diesel fuel, and oil sales at retail (with no Automobile repair facilities) and the retail sale of a limited line of goods that generally includes tobacco products, milk, bread, soda, snacks, and similar household convenience goods for customers. Such establishment may include an accessory automatic carwash.
Automotive Customizing Shop
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An establishment that primarily provides indoor after-sales services for Automobiles (including the attendant retail sales of accessories for such Automobiles), such as installation, conversion, and modifications to the interior or exterior of Automobiles, and may include indoor automotive detailing or dent removal.
Automotive Customizing Shop, including the outdoor display of customized vehicles for sale
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An establishment that primarily provides indoor after-sales services for Automobiles (including the attendant retail sales of accessories for such Automobiles), such as installation, conversion, and modifications to the interior or exterior of Automobiles, and may include indoor automotive detailing or dent removal.
Automotive Sales, New
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An establishment primarily engaged in the sale and/or lease of new Automobiles, including incidental outdoor display, parking, and indoor servicing of vehicles available for sale or lease. Such a use also may include the sales of used Automobiles as a subordinate use.
Automotive Sales, Used
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An establishment primarily engaged in the sale of used Automobiles, including incidental outdoor display, parking, and indoor servicing of such vehicles available for sale.
Automotive Sales, Used, not Including the Incidental outdoor display or parking, or indoor servicing of vehicles
An establishment primarily engaged in the sale of used Automobiles, including incidental outdoor display, parking, and indoor servicing of such vehicles available for sale.
Automotive Service Store
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An establishment primarily engaged in the sale and replacement or servicing of spark plugs, oil, water hoses, brake fluids, batteries, distributors, tires, brakes, fuel pumps, or other automotive parts or accessories for Automobiles. An Automotive Service Store may perform minor repairs of Automobiles and may have short-term outdoor storage of such vehicles until such repairs are performed, but excluding dismantling or salvage.
Automotive Washing Facility
An establishment engaged in washing and cleaning of Automobiles and related light equipment. Typical uses include self-service service and full-service car washes.
Banquet Facility
An establishment available for lease by private parties to accommodate functions, including, but not limited to, banquets, weddings, anniversaries, and similar celebrations or events, including accessory facilities thereto. Banquet Facilities may serve alcohol and have Outdoor Dining as an accessory use.
Bed and Breakfast Inn
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An establishment operated in a private residence or portion thereof, consisting of between one (1) and twelve (12) guest rooms, which provides temporary accommodations to overnight guests for a fee and which is occupied by the operator of such establishment.
Church
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A church, synagogue, temple, mosque, or other facility that has a Principal Use of religious worship of any denomination.
Clubs and Civic Lodge
An organization of persons for special purposes or for the promulgation of sports, arts, literature, politics, or other common goals, interests, or activities, characterized by membership qualifications, dues, or regular meetings, excluding clubs operated for profit and/or Churches.
Commercial Motor Vehicle Dealer
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An establishment engaged in the business of buying, selling, exchanging or offering to negotiate, negotiating, or advertising the sale of a Commercial Motor Vehicles, including the outdoor display of vehicles, distribution of parts, and indoor service.
Commercial Motor Vehicle Repair
An establishment primarily engaged in the indoor repair or customization of Commercial Motor Vehicles, including the straightening of body parts, painting, welding, installation, or repair of equipment or parts on motorized vehicles such as mufflers, brakes, tires, radios, transmissions, glass, and engines or engine parts and short-term outdoor storage of Commercial Motor Vehicles until such repairs are performed, but excluding dismantling or salvage.
Community Center
A facility owned by a public or not-for-profit entity, that is designed for indoor and outdoor group activities, including meeting or recreational rooms, pools, ballfields, and playgrounds.
Condominium
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Construction Equipment Dealer
An establishment primarily engaged in the sale and/or rental of construction equipment, power systems, and parts, and the outdoor display and indoor service of such equipment; which may include a truck and trailer rental facility affiliated with and subordinate to the Construction Equipment Dealer on the same property.
Convention Center
A facility used for business or professional conferences and seminars, often associated with a Hotel.
Day Care Facility
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A building operated by an establishment who holds itself out as providing child care for more than four (4) children during the daytime, for compensation or otherwise, except those operated by a school system or in connection with an establishment which provides child care as a convenience for its customers or its employees, but a day care facility shall not include any private or religious organization academic preschool or kindergarten, a home school, a weekly Sunday or Sabbath school, a vacation Bible school or child care made available while the parents or guardians are attending worship services, or other meetings and activities conducted or sponsored by a religious organization. A Day Care Facility shall not be located in a dwelling.
Distilleries
An establishment that produces alcoholic beverages on-site and generally includes an accessory tasting room. A tasting room allows customers to taste samples of products manufactured on-site and purchase related sales items.
Dock For Watercraft Vehicles
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Dwelling, Multifamily
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A building or portion thereof designed exclusively for three (3) or more families.
Dwelling, Single-Family
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A detached building containing one (1) dwelling unit, provided, however, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Code to the contrary, for the purposes of this Chapter a Group Home and Foster Home shall be included in the definition of a single-family home.
Dwelling, Single-Family Attached
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Two (2) single-family dwellings sharing common wall areas, each dwelling having its own lot.
Dwelling, Two-Family
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A building designed for or occupied exclusively by two (2) families living independently of each other and being on a single lot.
Emergency Service Facility
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A facility for public organizations/entities that provide public safety services by addressing different emergencies, including Police, Fire, and Ambulance.
Entertainment Facility or Theater
A building or part of a building devoted to showing motion pictures or dramatic, musical or live performances. For the purposes of this Chapter, Adult Theater, Adult Arcade, and Adult Cabaret as defined in Section 456.010: Definitions, shall not be included in the definition of Entertainment Facility or Theater. Entertainment Facilities or Theaters may serve alcoholic beverages with at least fifty percent (50%) of the gross income derived from the sale of prepared meals or food consumed on the premises.
Farmers Market
An establishment where local farmers sell fruits and vegetables and often meat, cheese, and bakery products directly to customers. A Farmers Market may be indoors and/or outdoors and typically consisting of booths, tables, or stands for the sale of products.
Farming
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The use of a lot for the production, keeping, or maintenance, for sale or personal use, of plants and animals, including, but not limited to: forages and sod crops; grains and seed crops; dairy animals and dairy products; poultry and poultry products; livestock, including beef cattle, sheep, swine, horses, ponies, mules, or goats, or any mutations or hybrids thereof, including the breeding and grazing of any or all of such animals; bees and apiary products; trees and forest products; fruits of all kinds; vegetables; nursery; floral, ornamental and greenhouse products; and structures necessary for processing, treating, maintaining, or storing of same; but excluding feed lots, stockyards, food canning plants, and animal slaughterhouses and buildings use for the sale of products on-site.
Financial Institutions
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A State or Federally chartered bank, savings association, credit union, or industrial land company located in a building which provides for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue of money, extension of credit, or facilitating the transmission of funds, which may include accessory drive-through service on the same premises but does not include Pawnshops and Small Loan Businesses.
Fitness Instruction Studio
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An establishment offering instruction, including, but not limited to: dance, ballet, yoga, martial arts, personal training, and gymnastics.
General Service Contractor
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A person whose principal business involves specialized residential or non-residential construction, repair, improvement or service of real property. A General Service Contractor may display and store products for sale indoors.
Golf Courses, not including practice driving ranges
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Government Administrative Building
A building in which government affairs, predominantly administrative, professional, clerical, or other services, are performed and which is designed to serve patrons at the site. Typical uses include, Police sub-stations, United States post offices, and City Hall.
Grocery Store, Convenience
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An establishment that:
1. Offers a diverse variety of unrelated, non-complementary food and non-food commodities, such as beverages, dairy, dry goods, fresh produce, and other perishable items, frozen foods, household products, and paper goods;
2. May provide beer, wine, and/or liquor sales for consumption off the premises;
3. May prepare minor amounts of food on site for immediate consumption;
4. Markets the majority of its merchandise at retail prices;
5. May not have an accessory Restaurant Use; and
6. May not exceed five thousand (5,000) square feet.
Grocery Store, General
An establishment that:
1. Offers a diverse variety of unrelated, non-complementary food and non-food commodities, such as beverages, dairy, dry goods, fresh produce, and other perishable items, frozen foods, household products, and paper goods;
2. May provide beer, wine, and/or liquor sales for consumption off the premises;
3. May prepare minor amounts of food on site for immediate consumption;
4. Markets the majority of its merchandise at retail prices; and
5. May have an accessory Restaurant and/or florist use.
Healing Arts Establishment
An establishment providing health treatments or therapy generally not performed by a medical doctor or physician such as physical therapy, massage, acupuncture, aromatherapy, audiology, and homeopathy.
Health Club
An establishment that is open to members and guests and that provides facilities for at least two (2) of the following: aerobic exercises, running and jogging, exercise equipment, fitness classes, game courts, and swimming facilities and that also includes amenities such as saunas, showers, and lockers.
Hotels and Extended Stay Hotel
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HOTEL
An establishment that:
1. Offers temporary lodging in rooms, for thirty (30) consecutive days or less in a calendar year, and charges guests on a per night basis;
2. May include restaurants, meeting, multi-function, or banquet rooms, and other accessory uses and services, including, without limitation, newsstands, gift shops, and similar incidental uses conducted entirely within the principal building;
3. May include one (1) manager’s quarter for the on-duty manager adjacent to the lobby area; which may include a kitchen or cooking facility but may not exceed the area of a typical guestroom within the hotel or be utilized as a temporary or permanent residence; and
4. Does not provide a kitchen or cooking facilities within the rooms.

HOTEL, EXTENDED STAY
An establishment that:
1. Offers temporary lodging in rooms which are advertised, designed, intended or routinely utilized for weekly or monthly occupancy; and typically charges guests on a weekly or monthly basis;
2. May include restaurants, meeting, multi-function, or banquet rooms, and other accessory uses and services, including, without limitation, newsstands, gift shops, and similar incidental uses conducted entirely within the principal building;
3. May include one (1) manager’s quarter for the on-duty manager adjacent to the lobby area; which may include a kitchen or cooking facility but may not exceed the area of a typical guestroom within the hotel or be utilized as a temporary or permanent residence; and
4. Provides kitchen or cooking facilities for the preparation of food by guests in at least thirty percent (30%) of the rooms or units.
Industrial, Heavy
A use engaged in the basic processing, fabrication, and manufacturing of materials or products predominantly from extracted or raw materials, or storage and/or use of heavy machinery and/or construction vehicles/equipment. Heavy Industrial may not include: facilities producing explosives or flammable gases or liquids, facilities for animal slaughtering, tanning, meatpacking or rendering, sulphur plants, rubber reclamation plants or cement plants, steel or any other metal mills, foundry or smelters, and those general uses which may be obnoxious or offensive by reason of emission of odor, dust, smoke or noise.
Industrial, Light
A use engaged in the manufacture, predominantly from previously prepared materials, of finished products or parts, including processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment, packaging, incidental storage, sales, and distribution of such products, but excluding basic industrial processing.
Liquor Store
An establishment engaged in the retail sale of packaged alcoholic beverages, such as ale, beer, wine, and liquor for consumption off the premises, with sampling permitted on site with an approved license.
Loft
A dwelling located above the first floor of a non-residential use such as a store or office.
Medical Facility
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A facility that provides medical and allied health services to an individual by physicians and other health care professionals licensed by a State-sanctioned Board overseeing the provision of medically oriented outpatient services. Medical facilities include, laboratories, diagnostic centers, and outpatient treatment facilities such as urgent care clinics.
Medical Marijuana Cultivation Facility
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A facility licensed by the State of Missouri to acquire, cultivate, process, store, transport and sell Marijuana to a Medical Marijuana Dispensary Facility, Medical Marijuana Testing Facility, Medical Marijuana-Infused Products Manufacturing Facility.
Medical Marijuana Dispensary Facility
A facility licensed by the State of Missouri to acquire, store, sell, transport, and deliver Marijuana, Marijuana-Infused Products, and drug paraphernalia used to Administer Marijuana as provided by the State of Missouri solely pursuant to the terms of Article XIV, Section 1 of the Missouri Constitution to a Qualifying Patient, a Primary Caregiver, another Medical Marijuana Dispensary Facility, a Medical Marijuana Testing Facility, or a Medical Marijuana-Infused Products Manufacturing Facility.
Medical Marijuana Testing Facility
A facility certified by the State of Missouri to acquire, test, certify, and transport Marijuana.
Medical Marijuana Transportation Facility
A facility certified by the State of Missouri to store and transport Marijuana.
Medical Marijuana-Infused Products Manufacturing Facility
A facility licensed by the State of Missouri to acquire, store, manufacture, transport, and sell Marijuana-Infused Products to a Medical Marijuana Dispensary Facility, a Medical Marijuana Testing Facility, or to another Medical Marijuana-Infused Products Manufacturing Facility.
Medical Office
A building with one (1) or more physicians, dentists, chiropractors, optometrists, or other health practitioners providing medical services in a specific area of health care, organized as a single business entity, and lawfully established for medical consultation to persons on an outpatient basis. This term, includes, but is not limited to, mental health care, addiction counseling, chiropractic, and optical services; and physical therapy offices, clinics, and facilities.
Museum
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An establishment devoted to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, or artistic value.
Nursery
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An establishment where flowers, shrubbery, vegetables, trees, and other horticultural and floricultural products are grown, propagated, and may be sold on-site.
Office, General
A building with one (1) or more establishments providing executive, management, administrative or professional services, but not Medical Offices or Medical Facilities, or the sale of merchandise, except as accessory to a permitted Principal Use. Typical uses include real estate, insurance, property management, investment, employment, travel, advertising, law, architecture, design, engineering, accounting, and similar offices.
Outdoor Storage Area of Vehicles Associated with a Dealership That is Not located on the Same Premises. Valid for One (1) Year From Approval of the Board of Aldermen.
Parking Structure
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Any building containing motor vehicle parking that is a Principal Use, with or without any additional Uses.
Personal and Business Service Shop
Shops primarily engaged in providing services generally involving the care of the person or such person’s apparel or rendering services to business establishments such as laundry or dry-cleaning tailoring, beauty or barber shops, employment service, mailing or copy and printing shops, shipping stores, and sign shops.
Pet Grooming Facility
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An establishment primarily engaged in the cleaning, bathing, brushing, and cutting of hair of household pets. Pet grooming facilities do not include outdoor kennels, medical care, or overnight care.
Pet Supply Store
An establishment primary engaged in the sale of pet supplies, which may include the accessory indoor sale or adoption of pets, pet grooming, and/or veterinarian clinic or hospital, but does include outdoor kennels or runs.
Pharmacy
An establishment where prescription drugs are compounded, dispensed, or sold by a pharmacist and where prescription drug orders are received or processed in accordance with the pharmacy laws as defined by Chapter 338 of the Missouri Revised Statutes. A Pharmacy may engage in general light retail sales and may include accessory drive-through service on the premises.
Pharmacy, not exceeding 2,000 square feet in building size
An establishment where prescription drugs are compounded, dispensed, or sold by a pharmacist and where prescription drug orders are received or processed in accordance with the pharmacy laws as defined by Chapter 338 of the Missouri Revised Statutes. A Pharmacy may engage in general light retail sales and may include accessory drive-through service on the premises.
Public Library
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Public Park
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Any public area created, established, designated, maintained, provided, or set aside by the City for the purpose of public rest, play, recreation, enjoyment, assembly, and all buildings, facilities, and structures located thereon or therein.
Public Utility Facility
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An electrical substation including but not limited to transmission substations, distribution substations, collector substations, converter substations, and switching stations. Towers, poles, and traffic signal controllers shall not be considered Public Utility Facilities. See TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITY defined in Section 491.030: Application Procedures; Timing.
Railroad Switching Yard
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An area consisting of railroad track used for the storage, sorting, and loading and unloading of railcars and locomotives.