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Article 10: Definitions <br /> Section 10.1: Definitions <br /> <br />Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-40 <br /> <br />A temporary or seasonal commercial activity that occurs on a bona fide farm and which is expected to <br />attract more than 20 people at any given time. <br />Salvage yard77 <br />Property used for the storage, collection, and/or recycling of any type of equipment whatsoever, whether <br />industrial or non-commercial, and including but not limited to vehicles, appliances and related machinery. <br />Saw Mill <br />A facility where off-site logs or timber are sawn, planed or otherwise processed into lumber or other wood <br />products; not including the processing of timber for use on the same parcel of property. <br />School – Preparatory <br />Land use(s) engaged in furnishing academic courses and associated course work designed to satisfy <br />curriculum requirements/standards established by the State of North Carolina Department of Education <br />including pre-school through 12th grade/pre-college activities provided by either public or private <br />institutions. The term includes pre-school, kindergarten, elementary/secondary and high schools, schools <br />for the mentally and/or physically disabled (pre-school through high school), military academies (pre- <br />school through high school), schools for the deaf or visually impaired, and alternative schools. <br />School – Technical, Trade, and Skill Training <br />Land use(s) engaged in offering a variety of technical, trade, vocational and skills training further defined <br />below: <br />A. Community College: A non-residential institution, also known as a junior college, typically <br />supported in part by local government funds providing higher education and lower-level tertiary <br />education to students and granting certificates, diplomas, and/or associate degrees. A <br />Community College may also offer non-degree track specific continuing education courses. <br />B. Continuing Education: Short or part-time educational courses including, but not limited to: <br />brewing, diction, exam and tutoring services, language including English as a second language <br />courses, math, personal development, professional continuing education, reading, self-defense, <br />and survival training. <br />C. Performing/Fine Arts: Instruction/training in the arts including, but not limited to: art/artisans <br />(except commercial and graphic) instruction, dance instruction including studios, drama/theater, <br />music, fine art schools, photography, sculptors, and other performing arts. <br />D. Sports and Recreation: Instruction/training in athletic activities to groups of individuals including, <br />but not limited to: cheerleading, gymnastics, martial arts, sports (i.e. baseball, basketball, bowling, <br />football, golf, hockey, tennis, soccer) instruction, professional sports instructors not participating <br />in sporting events, skiing, and swimming/scuba instruction. <br />E. Trade: Also known as Vocational Schools, offering vocational and technical training in a variety of <br />subjects and trades, which may or may not include the use of simulators and simulation methods. <br />Activities include, but are not limited to: acupuncture, apprenticeship training programs, aviation <br />and flight training, bartending, broadcasting, brokerage, computer training including repair, <br />cosmetology/barber, culinary arts/cooking schools, glass blowers, graphic acts, dental technician, <br />driving instruction including automotive, trucks and heavy equipment, electronic equipment repair, <br />health aide training, hospitality management, massage/physical therapy, mechanic, medical <br />technician including transcription, modeling, nursing, personal fitness training, photography, <br />police training, real estate, security guard, silversmiths, weaving, and wood and leather crafting. <br />Semi-Cutoff Fixture <br />An outdoor fixture shielded or constructed in such a manner that it emits no more than 5% of its light <br />above the horizontal plane of the fixture, and no more than 20% of its light ten degrees below the <br />horizontal plane of the fixture. <br />Senior Center <br /> <br />77 Use is recommended to be combined with the existing Junkyard land use.  <br /> 196