Shaping Orange County's Future Final Full Report

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Definitions of Key Concepts Note: This section does not attempt to define all terms used in the report. In addition, key terms like Community - Building and Sustainability have pages devoted to their description and are not included here. If a term is described to a level of detail in the document, it is not included in this listing. Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance (APFO): A zoning and /or land development regulation with the goal of synchronizing development with the availability of public facilities needed to support that development. The location, amount, type or mix of development is a product of the County and municipal comprehensive plans and zoning ordinances. Adequate Public Facilities Ordinances (APFO's) pace growth by affecting the timing of development to ensure that it is matched with the availability of public facilities as noted by ajointly- prepared Capital Improvement Plan. Affordable Housing: Housing that can be purchased at a cost between 2.5 to 3 times a household's total annual income. Rental housing is considered affordable if a household spends no more than 30% of total household income on rent including utilities (HUD 2000 Standards). In Orange, Durham and Wake Counties, most affordable housing programs focus on families at 80% and below of median income. Auto - Limited Zones: Areas where pedestrian traffic and transit access is encouraged, and use of personal automobiles is likewise discouraged via limited parking, narrow or "cobblestone" streets, or other measures. This could be a block of a downtown area, a portion of a campus, or other areas — to be identified depending on access and transportation needs. Compact Mixed -Use (CMU) Developments: CMU's would focus development within areas targeted for growth in the municipalities and their ETJ areas. These would be located in areas best served by urban services and would be comprehensive and "internal" in nature, including housing, commercial activities, civic and social components, and light industry (where appropriate). Design standards would be used to ensure that the CMU is appropriate in scale and nature to its surroundings, it would include a mix of housing types, values and styles. CMU's should generally be within a 15- minute walk to commercial areas, have easy walking and bike access, and be "people- friendly ", enhancing the sense of community among those living and working in a CMU. Development: The process of creating new land use activity on previously undeveloped land, for the purpose of housing, population, and other non - residential uses. Eco- Industrial Park: A eco- industrial park is a community of manufacturing and service businesses with enhanced environmental and economic performance through collaboration in managing environmental and resource issues. Eco - industrial parks embody sustainable community economic development by bringing together ideas such as industrial ecology, pollution prevention, sustainable design, architecture and construction, and company partnering. 109