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Article 10: Definitions <br />Section 10.1: Definitions <br />Day Care <br />Any child care arrangement under which a child less than 13 years of age receives care away from his <br />own home by persons other than his parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers and sisters who are <br />not minors, guardians or full time custodians. <br />Day Care Facility <br />Any day care center or child care arrangement that provides day care for more than five children, not <br />including the operator's school age children, under the age of 13, on a regular basis of at least once per <br />week for more than four hours but less than 24 hours per day, and those operating fewer than four hours <br />per day that provide care for more children per adult care giver than would be permitted in an AA State <br />licensed center, regardless of the time of day and regardless of whether the same children attend <br />regularly. <br />The following facilities are not included: <br />a) Public schools; <br />b) Non - public schools whether or not accredited by the State Department of Public Instruction, <br />which regularly and exclusively provide a course of grade school instruction to children who are of <br />public school age; <br />c) Summer camps having children in full -time residence; <br />d) Bible schools conducted for no more than three weeks during vacation periods; and <br />e) Cooperative arrangements among parents who care only for their own children in an arrangement <br />as a matter of convenience rather than to enable any participating parent to be employed. <br />Day Care Nome, Large <br />A Day Care Facility located on a public state - maintained road, which provides day care for more than five <br />but fewer than 16 children, within a residence. <br />Dedication <br />A gift, by the owner, of land for a specified purpose, or purposes. Because a transfer of property is <br />entailed, dedication must be made by written instrument and is completed with an acceptance. <br />Designated Public Sewer Service Area <br />An area located within Orange County's Primary Service Area in the Water and Sewer Management, <br />Planning, and Boundary Agreement, that is currently served by public sewer or is expected to be served <br />by public sewer in the near -term (e.g., 18 months: demonstrated by issuance of an advertisement for bid, <br />or similar device, for construction of public sewer facilities). <br />Detention Pond <br />A engineered stormwater control consisting of a pond constructed and maintained in accordance with <br />Appendix A of this Ordinance, which allows for pollutants to settle and provides for the gradual release of <br />the impounded water. The detention pond is the Best Management Practice which must be used within <br />protected watersheds when engineered stormwater controls are required. (See also, Best Management <br />Practices and Engineered Stormwater Controls) <br />Development <br />Any constructed change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, buildings or <br />other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations, or storage of <br />equipment or materials. Also includes any land- disturbing activity which adds to or changes the amount <br />of impervious or partially impervious cover on a land area or which otherwise decreases the infiltration of <br />precipitation into the soil. <br />Development, Existing <br />In the context of Stormwater provisions of this Ordinance for projects that do not require a State permit, <br />shall be defined as those projects that are built, or those projects that at a minimum have established a <br />vested right under North Carolina zoning law as of the effective date of Orange County's Water Supply <br />Watershed Protection Ordinance, or such earlier time that other Orange County ordinances shall specify, <br />based on at least one of the following criteria: <br />Orange County, North Carolina — Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-6 <br />