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Article 10: Definitions <br /> Section 10.1: Definitions <br /> <br />Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-56 <br /> <br />Telecommunication Facilities, Wireless facility Stealth <br />A wireless support structure designed using stealth technology such that its primary purpose is, or <br />visually appears to be, something other than the support of telecommunications equipment, the apparent <br />purpose of the wireless support structure is customarily considered as accessory to a use that is allowed <br />in the zoning district, and the structure and its primary use comply with this Ordinance. <br />Telecommunication Facilities, Wireless support structure <br />A new or existing structure, such as a monopole, lattice, or guyed tower that is designed to support or <br />capable of supporting wireless facilities. A utility pole is not a wireless support structure. <br />Telecommunication Facilities, Wireless Telecommunications Facility (WTF), <br />Includes both Telecommunications Site and Personal Wireless Facility <br />A structure, facility or location designed, or intended to be used as, or used to support antennas or other <br />transmitting or receiving devises. This includes without limit wireless support structures of all types, kinds <br />and structures, including, but not limited to buildings, church steeples, silos, water towers, signs or other <br />structures that can be used as a support structure for antennas or the functional equivalent of such. If <br />further includes all related facilities and equipment such as cabling, equipment shelters and other <br />structures associated with the facility. It is a structure and facility intended for transmitting and/or <br />receiving radio, television, cellular, SMR, paging, 911, personal communications services (PCS), <br />commercial satellite services, microwave services, and any commercial wireless telecommunication <br />service not licensed by the FCC. <br /> <br />Temporary Health Care Structure <br />A transportable residential structure facilitating a caregiver’s provision of care for a mentally or physically <br />impaired person that is primarily assembled offsite, is limited to one occupant, has no more than 300 <br />gross square feet, and complies with applicable standards of the North Carolina State Building Code. <br />Temporary health care structures shall not be installed on a permanent foundation. Temporary health <br />care structures are classified as an accessory use to single family detached dwellings. <br />Temporary Residential Mobile Home <br />A mobile home, intended for residential use for a limited period of time, for purposes of providing for <br />custodial care under a Class B Special Use Permit or providing temporary residential space during the <br />installation of a replacement mobile home or construction of a stick-built or modular residential unit on the <br />same lot, and for 30 days after the issuance of Certificate of Occupancy for the permanent unit. The <br />temporary mobile home is not attached to a permanent or semi-permanent foundation. <br />Temporary Use Building <br />A building, not intended for residential use, consisting of one or more modules constructed off the ultimate <br />site of use. The building is also not attached to a permanent or semi-permanent foundation. <br />Ten-Year Transition Land <br />Land located in areas that are in the process of changing from rural to urban densities and/or intensities, <br />that are suitable for higher densities and/or intensities and could be provided with public utilities and <br />services within the first 10-year phase of the Comprehensive Plan update or where such utilities and <br />services are already present or planned. Non-residential uses implemented in accordance with small <br />area plans and/or overlay districts may be appropriate. <br />Tourist Home <br />A building or group of attached or detached buildings containing, in combination, three to nine lodging <br />units for occupancy for daily or weekly periods, with or without board, and primarily for occupancy by <br />transients, as distinguished from rooming houses, in which occupancy is primarily by residents rather than <br />transients. <br />Traffic Generation: Low <br />Uses which generate an average of less than 200 vehicle trips per day. <br />13