a wide variety of professional offices and institutions and a broad range of light and moderate intensity commercial uses proximate to residential and more intense business districts so as to satisfy the demand for services. The district regulations are
Read it in the chapter →How this ordinance defines it
The operative definition is the local one. Codes routinely subdivide a category into tiers — “day care 2, family”, “group home 2” — and attach different permissions to each, so only Portsmouth’s own text settles what this covers.