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Wall Sign: A sign attached parallel to and extending not more than eighteen (18) inches
from the wall of a building. This definition includes painted, individual letter, and
cabinet signs, and signs on a mansard. Window Sign: A sign installed inside a window and intended to be viewed from the
outside. Special Permit Granting Authority: Authority to issue specific special permits as designated by this
By-Law. Story: That part of a building comprised between a floor and the floor or roof next above. Story, Basement: The lower most story of which any portion of the floor is below the exterior grade. Street: A way which is over twenty-four (24) feet in right-of-way width which is dedicated or devoted
to public use by legal mapping or by any other lawful procedure. A street includes all public ways, a
way which the Town Clerk certified is maintained and used as a public way, a way shown on a plan
approved and endorsed in accordance with the "Subdivision Rules and Regulations in Easton,
Massachusetts" and a way having in the opinion of the Easton Planning & Zoning Board sufficient
width, suitable grades and adequate construction to provide for the needs of vehicular traffic in relation
to the proposed uses of the land abutting thereon or served thereby and for the installation of municipal
services to serve such land and the buildings erected or to be erected thereon. Structure: A combination of materials assembled at a fixed location that is safe and stable to give
support or shelter, such as a building, bridge, trestle, tower, framework, retaining wall, tank, tunnel,
tent, stadium, reviewing stand, platform, bin, sign, fence, flagpole, swimming pool, shelters, sheds, or
the like. Structure, Nonconforming: A structure lawfully existing at the effective date of this by-law or any
subsequent amendment thereto, which does not conform to one or more provisions of this by-law.