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Article 10: Definitions 106 <br /> Section 10.1: Definitions <br /> Study Area, °affic Impact <br /> The area in which a traffic impact analysis will be made and extending approximately one half mile along <br /> roadways adjacent to a development project and in both directions from all access points or to a major <br /> intersection along these roadways. <br /> subdivider <br /> Any person or persons, firm or corporation subdividing land within the jurisdiction of this Ordinance. <br /> Subdivision <br /> All divisions of a tract or parcel of land into two or more lots, building sites or other divisions for the <br /> purpose of sale or building development (whether immediate or future) and includes all division of land <br /> involving the dedication of a new street or a change in existing streets. <br /> Subdivision, Exempt <br /> a) The combination or recombination of portions of previously subdivided and recorded lots if the <br /> total number of lots is not increased and the resultant lots are equal to or exceed the standards of <br /> the County, including private road justification standards, as detailed within this Ordinance. <br /> b) The division of land into parcels greater than 10 acres if no street right-of-way dedication is <br /> involved. <br /> c) The public acquisition by purchase of strips of land for widening or opening streets. <br /> d) The division of a tract in single ownership of the entire area of which is no greater than two acres <br /> into not more than three lots, if no street right-of-way dedication is involved and if the resultant <br /> lots are equal to or exceed the standards of the County as shown by its subdivision regulations. <br /> Subdivision, Major <br /> Any division of land that is not classified as an Exempt or Minor subdivision. <br /> Subdivision, Minor <br /> A division of a tract of land that does not: <br /> a) Create more than five lots for conventional design options, or more than 12 lots for flexible <br /> development, including the residual acreage, from any one tract of land in any 24 month period; <br /> b) Dedicate or improve any new public street other than widening an existing public street; <br /> c) Extend public water and/or sanitary sewerage systems other than laterals to serve individual lots; <br /> d) Necessitate the installation of drainage improvements which would require easements through <br /> one or more lots to serve other lots; and <br /> e) At the option of the applicant, involve vesting of the subdivision for a period greater than one <br /> year. <br /> Substantial damage <br /> Damage of any origin sustained by a structure during any one year period whereby the cost of restoring <br /> the structure to its before-damaged condition would equal or exceed 50% of the market value of the <br /> structure before the damage occurred. See definition of"substantial improvement." Substantial damage <br /> also means flood-related damage sustained by a structure on two separate occasions during a ten-year <br /> period for which the cost of repairs at the time of each such flood event, on the average, equals or <br /> exceeds 25% of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred. <br /> substantial improvement <br /> Any combination of repairs, reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, or other improvement of a structure, <br /> taking place during any one year period whereby the cost of which equals or exceeds 50% of the market <br /> value of the structure before the start of construction of the improvement. This term includes structures, <br /> which have incurred substantial damage, regardless of the actual repair work performed. The term does <br /> not, however, include either any correction of existing violations of State or Orange County health, <br /> sanitary, or safety code specifications which have been identified by the Orange County code <br /> enforcement official and which are the minimum necessary to assure safe living conditions, or any <br /> alteration of a historic structure provided that the alteration will not preclude the structure's continued <br /> designation as a historic structure. <br /> Orange County, North Carolina—Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-55 <br />