Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
Article 10: Definitions <br /> Section 10.1: Definitions <br /> <br />Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-55 <br /> <br />Street, Local <br />A street used or designed primarily to provide access to abutting properties. It serves or is designed to <br />serve at least ten but not more than 25 dwelling units and is expected to or does handle between 75 and <br />200 trips per day. <br />Street, Loop <br />A street used as a means for local traffic to leave and enter other streets without turning around, but <br />providing access only to abutting properties. These streets are less than one mile in length and have no <br />collector characteristics. <br />Street, Marginal Access <br />A minor street which is parallel to and adjacent to an arterial street, and which provides access to abutting <br />properties and protection from through traffic. Marginal access streets may also be referred to as "service <br />roads". <br />Street, Minor <br />A street used or designed primarily to provide access to abutting properties. It serves or is designed to <br />serve not more than nine dwelling units and is expected to or does handle up to 75 trips per day. <br />Street, Private <br />A vehicular way, built to the private street standards of Orange County, not intended for public use or <br />public dedication and which serves a limited number of lots. It is maintained by private property owners <br />and intended for use by those private property owners. <br />Street, Public <br />A street which has been accepted for permanent maintenance by the State of North Carolina. <br />Street, Subcollector <br />A street used or designed to provide access to abutting properties, but is also designed to be used or is <br />used to connect minor or local streets with collector or arterial streets. Including residences indirectly <br />served through connecting street, it serves or is designed to serve at least 26 but not more than 100 <br />dwelling units and is expected to or does handle between 200 and 800 trips per day. <br />Structure <br />Any walled and roofed building, a manufactured home, or a gas or liquid storage tank, that is built or <br />constructed principally above ground, constructed or erected to a height of 30 inches or more, including <br />but not limited to load bearing walls, columns, beams or girders. <br />Studio (Arts and Crafts) 78 <br />Room or building where an art is taught, practiced or studied, or where a craft or product is manually <br />produced. Typical studio users include artists, musicians, dancers, gymnasts, photographers, sculptors, <br />wood and leather craftsmen, glass blowers, weavers, and silversmiths. <br />Study Area, Traffic 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 /> <br />78 Activities are now captured under the Schools – Technical, Trade, and Skill Training land use under the Child and  <br />Adult Care and Educational Facilities land use category.  <br /> 198