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Tavern - A commercial establishment wherein alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises; a bar, a saloon; provided, however, that a place wherein both food and alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on premises and within which the total receipts from the sale of food exceed the total receipts from the sale of alcoholic beverages shall be a restaurant.

Technical Review Committee (TRC) - An advisory board that reviews development proposals within Jefferson County. The TRC identifies, negotiates and resolves technical issues and conflicting agency requirements to enable DPDS staff to approve plans as delegated by the Planning Commission.

Telecommunications Facility -The lot, tract, or parcel of land that contains the telecommunications antenna, its support structure, any accessory buildings, and parking, and may include other uses associated with an ancillary to telecommunications transmission.

Telephone Exchange Building -A building and its equipment used or to be used for the purpose of facilitating transmission and exchange of telephone messages between subscribers.

Temporary Outdoor Lighting -the specific illumination of an outside area or object by any man-made device located outdoors that produces light by any means for a period of less than 15 days, with at least 180 days passing before being used again.

Temporary Activities - Temporary activities are characterized by their short term or seasonal nature and by the fact that permanent improvements are not made to the site. Temporary activities include: temporary carnivals and fairs, temporary parking lots, temporary circus, temporary rodeo, temporary “Haunted House”, and temporary “Show House”.

Theater -A building or Part of a building where the principal use is the showing of motion pictures, or of dramatic, musical or live performances.

Top of Bank - The point on a stream bank at which the presence and action of surface water is so continuous as to leave a distinctive mark such as erosion, destruction or prevention of terrestrial vegetation, predominance of aquatic vegetation, or other easily recognizable characteristics.

Tract -A parcel of land greater than 40,000 square feet in area, the deed of which was recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Jefferson County Court.

Traditional Form Districts - The following form districts shall be considered traditional form districts: Town Center Form District, Traditional Neighborhood Form District, Traditional Marketplace Corridor Form District, Traditional Workplace Form District and Village Form District “Center”.

Traffic Calming Techniques - Street alignment, barriers, and other physical measures to reduce traffic speeds and/ or cut-through volumes, in the interest of safety, livability, and other public purposes.

Trailer, Automobile - see "Utility Trailer."

Training School – a school providing training for industrially related and/or construction related vocations.

Transit Compatible Development -A development that makes provisions for transit in the design of the site plan. The design may include provisions for bus turning radii, pavement that can support the weight of transit vehicles, limiting conflicts between pedestrians and transit vehicles and between general traffic and transit vehicles, and facilitating walking between buildings and transit stops. Other factors that may be considered include review of internal roadway and parking area, building placement, garage clearances, as well as recommendations on bus zones, shelters, awnings lighting fixtures and other improvements.

Transparent -A material that admits light without appreciable diffusion or distortion so that objects beyond are entirely visible. Examples include: clear glass and Plexiglas.

Tree -Any self-supporting woody plant of a species which normally grows, or is capable of growing, to an overall height of a minimum of fifteen feet in the north central region of Kentucky. This term includes canopy trees and understory trees, but does not include shrubs, ground cover or containerized trees and nursery stock trees for resale in licensed nurseries.

Tree Canopy -The area directly beneath the branches of a tree and within its dripline.

Tree Canopy Protection Area (TCPA) – An area of tree canopy preserved to meet the requirements of Chapter 10, Part 1 Tree Canopy.

Tree Encroachment -Any intentional or unintentional act which may reasonably be expected to cause a decline in the health of a tree, including:

1. damage to the root system by machinery, storage or materials or soil compaction.
2. substantially changing the natural surface grade within the dripline.
3. excessive paving or building within the dripline

Tree Preservation Areas (TPAs) – represent those portions of the development site to be left undisturbed during development of roadways, utilities and similar infrastructure. TPAs are not permanent preservation areas; clearing, grading and/or removal of trees in TPAs is allowed at the time of individual building or home construction.

Tree Removal -Any intentional or unintentional act which may reasonably be expected to cause a tree to decline and die, including: severing the trunk; excessive pruning of the trunk or branching system; mechanical damage to the branching system; mechanical damage to the bark and cambium layer; damage to the root system by machinery, storage of materials or soil compaction; substantially changing the natural surface grade within the dripline; excessive paving or building within the dripline; substantially changing the natural drainage patterns of the building site in a manner reasonably expected to kill the tree; and direct or indirect application of toxic substances or fire to the tree or its root system.

Tree, Type A - A large tree that will reach a mature height of over fifty (50) feet. (See Preferred Plant List)

The Preferred Plant List is Appendix 10A.

Tree, Type B -A medium tree that will reach a mature height of approximately twenty-five (25) to fifty (50) feet. (See Preferred Plant List)

Tree, Type C -A small tree that will reach a mature height of approximately ten (10) to twenty-five (25) feet. (See Preferred Plant List)

Tree, Understory -Any self-supporting woody plant of a species which normally achieves an overall height at maturity of 15-35 feet and a minimum crown spread of 15 feet, and which can grow beneath larger Canopy Trees.

Tree Well - A planting area for street trees, surrounded by paving; the tree well normally is situated in the sidewalk, between the curb and the edge of right-of-way.

Truck Sales/ Repair - A building or portion thereof, other than a private or storage garage, designed or used for equipping, servicing, repairing, hiring, selling, or storing motor-driven vehicles, other than passenger automobiles and trucks and vans less than 19 feet and less than 2 tons.

Truck. - A motor vehicle which is designed primarily for the movement of property or special purpose equipment, or a motor vehicle that is designed to carry more than ten (10) persons. Truck includes vehicles commonly called trucks, pick-ups, delivery vans, buses, motor homes and other similar vehicles. Truck is intended to cover the vehicles defined as trucks and buses by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Trucks are divided into three (3) categories as follows:

1. Light Truck Light trucks are trucks and similar vehicles with single rear axles and single rear wheels.
2. Medium Truck Medium trucks are trucks and similar vehicles, other than truck trailers, with single rear axles and dual rear wheels. Truck tractors are in the Heavy Truck category.
3. Heavy Truck. Heavy trucks are trucks, including truck tractors, and similar vehicles with two or more rear axles.

Turfgrass -Continuous coverage of the ground surface by a grass species maintained by mowing.

Two-Family Dwelling -see "Dwelling, Two Family."