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Article 10: Definitions
<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.
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