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Article 10: Definitions 36 <br /> Section 10.1: Definitions <br /> Retail sales operation providing lawn and garden supplies and small equipment rental primarily for home <br /> landscaping. Typical products include, but not limited to, decorative stone, garden ornaments, decorative <br /> pots, container plant stock, and bagged or bulk sand, mulch and topsoil. Seasonal sales such as <br /> Christmas trees, pumpkins and flowers are permitted in the outdoor display area. <br /> General Use Zoning District <br /> The various zoning districts contained in Article 3 of this Ordinance that are not Conditional Districts. <br /> Conditions cannot be applied to general use zoning districts. <br /> Glare <br /> Light emitting from a luminaire, solar panel, glass, or other similar reflective surface with an intensity great <br /> enough to reduce a viewer's ability to see or to cause annoyance, and, in extreme cases, causing <br /> momentary blindness. <br /> Golf Course <br /> A tract of land designed and laid out for the game of golf. Golf courses include, but are not limited to <br /> courses open to the general public for a daily user fee, private courses available to members and their <br /> guests, courses proposed as single, independent uses, as well as those planned as an accessory use <br /> which is part of a residential or recreational development. <br /> A golf course development may also include the following accessory uses and building typically <br /> associated with such a facility: club house; restaurant/snack bar; barroom; prop shop; billiards; table <br /> tennis, spa/health club; racquetball, hand ball, and tennis courts; swimming pool; locker rooms; and real <br /> estate sales office. <br /> Goods, Incidental <br /> Retail goods for sale in a manner customary and subordinate to the provision of a service, eg. Beautician <br /> selling hair products. <br /> Gross Floor Area <br /> The area within the perimeter of the outside walls of a building as measured from the exterior face of the <br /> exterior walls or from the centerlines of walls separating two buildings, with no deduction for hallways, <br /> stairs, closets, thickness of walls, columns, or other interior features. <br /> Group Care Facility <br /> A facility licensed by the appropriate state agency, as a group care facility for from seven to fifteen <br /> unrelated individuals excluding supervisory personnel, who are handicapped, aged or disabled and are <br /> undergoing rehabilitation, or extended care, and are provided services to meet their specific needs. This <br /> category includes group homes for all ages, half-way houses, foster and boarding homes. The following <br /> shall not be eligible for admission to a group care facility: <br /> a) Persons addicted to or recuperating from the effects of an addiction to drugs or alcohol; <br /> b) Persons adjusting to non-prison life, including but not limited to, pre-release, work release, <br /> probationary programs and juvenile detention centers. <br /> Group Development <br /> One or more principal structures built on a single lot, tract or parcel of land and designed for occupancy <br /> by more than one separate family, firm, business or other enterprise. <br /> Habitable Rooms <br /> Rooms designed and used for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, or combinations thereof. Bathrooms, <br /> toilet compartments, closets, halls, storage rooms, laundry and utility spaces, basement recreation rooms, <br /> and similar areas are not considered habitable rooms. <br /> Hazardous Waste Management Facility <br /> A facility or any portion of a facility for the collection, storage, processing, treatment, recycling, recovery, <br /> or disposal of hazardous waste on or in land in accordance with rules adopted by the State of North <br /> Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources. <br /> Orange County, North Carolina—Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-13 <br />