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PERSONAL SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT — An office, store or other place of business catering to the personal needs of a customer, such as normally conducted by a barber, beautician, tailor or dressmaker. PLANNED COMMERCIAL RECREATION DEVELOPMENT — The development of a parcel of land for recreational use operated for gain in a planned unit concept whereby the area may contain diverse recreational facilities, together with accessory service uses, such as food, lodging, amusement, specialized related rental sales and parking facilities. PRIVATE GARAGE — An accessory building or portion of a main building used for the storage of self- propelled vehicles used by the occupants of the premises, including space for not more than one passenger vehicle used by others. PROFESSIONAL OFFICE — When operated as a permitted accessory use in a residence district, a room or rooms on the same lot as the residence of a professional doctor, dentist, engineer, architect or other recognized professional, used as a place of business for such profession in a manner clearly accessory to the dwelling use of the lot. PUBLIC UTILITY USES — [Added 4-9-1997 by L.L. No. 2-1997] A. A private business, person or persons, often a monopoly, which provide services so essential to the public interests as to enjoy certain privileges, such as eminent domain, which are subject to governmental regulations, such as the fixing of rates and standards of service, including regulation by the New York State Public Service Commission, the Federal Communications Commission or other such agency. Characteristics of a public utility include: (1) The essential nature of the service offered must be taken into account when regulations seek to limit expansion of facilities which provide the service; (2) Operation under a franchise, subject to some measure of public regulation; and (3) Logistic problems, such as the fact that the product of the utility must be piped, wired or otherwise served to each user and the supply must be maintained at a constant level to meet minute-by-minute need, and the user has no alternate source, and the supplier commonly has no alternate means of delivery. B. Public utility services shall include electric, gas, water, sewer, fuel oil and telephone services. SEASONAL BASIS — The conducting of a use for a period not exceeding eight months in any calendar year. SETBACK — The least distance from any building to the front lot line or the adjacent boundary of the existing or platted street or highway or right-of-way, whichever is greater.[Amended 12-8-1998 by L.L. No. 2-1998; 8-14-2007 by L.L. No. 4-2007] SIGN — Any advertisement, announcement, direction or communication produced in whole or in part by the construction, erection, affixing or placing of a structure on any land or on any other structure or produced by painting on or posting or placing any printed, lettered, pictured, figured or colored material on any structure or surface, but not including signs placed or erected by the Town of Wales, the County of Erie or the State of New York for the purpose of showing street names or traffic directions or regulations or for other public purposes. SIGN AREA — The area defined by the frame or edge of a sign. Where there is no geometric frame or edge of the sign, the "area" shall be defined as a projected, enclosed, four-sided (straight sides) geometric shape which most closely outlines said sign. SITE PLAN — A plan of a lot or subdivision on which is shown topography, location of all buildings, structures, roads, rights-of-way and boundaries, all essential dimensions and bearings and any other information deemed necessary by the Town Board. 6