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Article 10: Definitions <br /> Section 10.1: Definitions <br /> <br />Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-4 <br /> <br />Anchoring <br />The fastening of the mobile home to its mobile home stand in order to prevent upset or damage due to <br />wind, erosion, flooding, or other natural forces. <br />Appeal <br />A request from a review of an administrative interpretation of any provision of this Ordinance by the Board <br />of Adjustment. <br />Applicator <br />Any person, firm, corporation, wholesaler, retailer, distributor, any local, state or federal governmental <br />agency, or any other person who applies fertilizer to the land of a consumer, or client, or to land they own, <br />or to land they lease or otherwise hold rights. <br />Area of special flood hazard <br />See “Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) Overlay District” <br />Assembly/Packaging Operation <br />Assembly and packaging of merchandise for distribution by mail or carrier. <br />Auditorium <br />A place of assembly to watch and/or to hear athletic events, musical performances, dramatic or dance <br />performances, speeches and/or ceremonies. The term is intended to include such uses as stadiums, <br />coliseums, athletic centers, theaters and arenas. <br />Bed and Breakfast Inn <br />See “Rural Guest Establishments.” <br />Base flood <br />The flood having a 1% chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. It is often referred to as <br />the 100-year flood. <br />Base flood elevation (BFE) <br />A determination as published in the Flood Insurance Study of the water surface elevations of the base <br />flood. This elevation, when combined with the “Freeboard” (see definition) establishes the “Regulatory <br />Flood Protection” (see definition) elevation. <br />Basement <br />Any area of the building having its floor sub grade (below ground level) on all sides. <br />Best Management Practices (BMPs) <br />A structural or non-structural management-based practice used singularly or in combination to reduce <br />non-point source pollution to receiving waters in order to achieve water quality protection goals. (See <br />also, Detention Pond and Engineered Stormwater Controls) (Unless otherwise specified, “BMP”, when <br />used in this Ordinance, refers to structural BMPs.) <br />Biosolids <br />Solid, semi-solid, or liquid residue (sewage sludge) generated during primary, secondary or advanced <br />wastewater treatment processes of domestic sewage that is treated to state and/or federal standards for <br />beneficial use (such as land application as fertilizer). <br /> <br />Bottomless <br />A state of nudity or semi-nudity where a person exposes to view a human bare buttock, anus, male <br />genitals, or female genitals. <br />Buffer <br />32