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Article 10: Definitions
<br /> Section 10.1:Definitions
<br /> A facility licensed by the appropriate state agency, as a group care facility for individuals who are
<br /> -handicapped,aged,disabled,youthful offenders,addicted to alcohol or drugs, requiring professional
<br /> health care, adult supervision, or rehabilitation.
<br /> Remedy a violation
<br /> To bring the structure or other development into compliance with State and Orange County laws and
<br /> regulations.
<br /> Repetitive loss
<br /> Flood-related damages sustained by a structure on two separate occasions during any ten year period for
<br /> which the cost of repairs at the time of each such flood event, on the average, equals or exceeds 25%of
<br /> the market value,or the tax value in the absence of recent comparative sales, of the structure before the
<br /> damage occurred.
<br /> Research FaCility136
<br /> A facility which accommodates research and research applications. Such facilities may include
<br /> laboratcries, offices, and other facilities for research and development, as well as prototype production
<br /> facilities for product creation. Prototype production shall be limited in scale to that necessary to fully
<br /> analyze the merits of the product- Facilities may be housed in multiple structures in a cohesive,campus-
<br /> like design, provided all research and development activities are conducted wholly indoors.
<br /> Reservoir, Class I
<br /> A body of water,such as a pond or lake, confined by a dam or other barrier to be used for public water
<br /> supply from which water flows by gravity or is pumped directly to a treatment plant or to a small
<br /> intervening storage basin and thence to a treatment plant.
<br /> Reservoir, Class 11
<br /> A body of water,such as a pond or lake, confined by a dam or other barrier to be used for public water
<br /> supply from which water flows by gravity or is pumped to a Class I reservoir prior to final entrance to a
<br /> water treatment plant.
<br /> Residential Development
<br /> Buildings for residential use such as attached and detached single family dwellings, apartment
<br /> complexes,condominiums,townhouses,cottages, and their associated outbuildings such as garages,
<br /> storage buildings, and gazebos.
<br /> Residential Floor Area
<br /> The sum of areas for residential use on all floors of the building measured from the outside faces of the
<br /> exterior walls, including halls, lobbies, stairways, elevator shafts, enclosed porches and balconies, and
<br /> below-grade floor areas used for habitation and residential access.
<br /> Not countable as floor area are:
<br /> a) Open terraces, patios, atriums, or balconies
<br /> b) Carports, garages, breezeways,toolsheds
<br /> c) Special-purpose areas for common use of occupants, such as recreation rooms of social halls
<br /> d) Staff space for therapy or examination in care housing
<br /> e) Basement space not used for living accommodations
<br /> f) Any commercial or other non-residential space,
<br /> Residential Land Area
<br /> All portions of a parcel or tract of land intended to support residential development of any classification
<br /> (i.e. single-family, multi-family,etc),including accessory uses, and all land necessary to comply with the
<br /> provisions of this Ordinance. With respect to subdivisions and Conditional District projects,this term shall
<br /> 116 Research Facility is listed as a use in the Table of Permitted Uses(Section 5.2)but there is not a definition for the
<br /> term and staff believes one is necessary since it is not an immediately obvious type of use. In response to a
<br /> comment made at the November 21,2011 quarterly public hearing,the definition has been modified slightly to be
<br /> more clear.
<br /> Orange County,North Carolina—Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-31
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