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BOOK P� Supermarket: "Any full line, self service grocery store with sales volume of $2 idillion or more annually." The Guide Book further defines an even larger grocery store (over 30,000 square feet) as a "superstore". Thus, "The Progressive Grocer" defines supermarket as a type and subset of grocery store, with a supermarket characterized as having $2 million or more in annual sales. According to testimony at the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting by the appellant's planning consultant, this sales volume would roughly equate to a 4,204 square foot store, based -on $11.38. per square foot. The applicant has cited definitions of "grocery (store)" and "supermarket" from two dictionaries (see attachment #1). The definitions are consistent with the definitions in other common dictionaries that staff uses. Listed below are the definitions for grocer, grocery store, and supermarket from Websters Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary: Grocer: a dealer in staple food stuffs, meats, produce and dairy products and usually household goods. Grocery Store: 1. Commodities sold by a grocer, 2. A grocer's store. SuperMarket: a self service retail market selling foods and household merchandise. These definitions, including the appellant's, indicate that the same type of merchandise is sold at grocery stores 'and supermarkets, and that the uses are essentially the same. Definitions indicate that supermarkets are large grocery stores, which is precisely staff's point. "Supermarkets" may logically be defined as a type of grocery store (a large grocery store). •COMPARISON OF "GROCERY STORE" AND "SUPERMARKET" USES It was staff's intent, in using the term "grocery store" when drafting the zoning code, to include supermarkets. That is why the term supermarkets does not appear in the zoning code. In essence, it would be redundant to list the same use twice. Since "supermarket" is not a specifically listed use category, however, staff went through the procedure set -out in the LDRs to determine the most similar use to "supermarket". According to the LDRs, such a determination shall be made based upon a review of the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code, a source which is used as a general framework for the zoning code. Other factors which may be considered shall be characteristics such as: traffic generation, parking requirements, noise, compatibility to surrounding uses, lighting, hours of operation, intensity, visual impacts, and type of traffic. Staff's determination was made based upon a review of the SIC code and a comparison of these criteria and other logical factors. •SIC Review The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) (attachment #5) is a system for classifying establishments by type of economic activity. The SIC manual groups, by 4 digit SIC number, those types of establishments that primarily engage in the same activity (use). The SIC code is one of the most extensive compilations of industry classification available. Since the SIC code was used as a general framework -and reference tool for developing the zoning code, the SIC code is also used in interpreting the county's zoning code. July 12, 1994 F-7 L 6 M _I