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Article 10: Definitions
<br /> Section 10.1: Definitions
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<br />Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-17
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<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 />Guest Ranch
<br />A rural lodge providing overnight accommodations for transient guests seeking a vacation experience
<br />characteristic to that of a rural ranch; onsite facilities may include lodge or cabin accommodations, dining
<br />facilities, barns, dance hall and recreational facilities, including but not limited to riding rings, trails, fishing
<br />holes and swimming facilities.
<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.
<br />Health Services
<br />Establishments of licensed practitioners, or licensed persons independently practicing a profession,
<br />primarily engaged in rendering medical, surgical and other health related and allied personal care
<br />services in the health field including, but not limited to: acupuncturists, chiropractors, dentists, dental
<br />hygienists, dietitians, dialysis centers, family planning, homeopaths, inhalation/respiratory therapists,
<br />mental health, midwife/doula offices, naturopaths, optometrists, outpatient surgical centers,
<br />registered/licensed practical nursing offices, physical occupation and speech therapists, physicians, and
<br />podiatrists (e.g. physicians, physical therapists).
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