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Article 10: Definitions <br /> Section 10.1: Definitions <br /> <br />Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-6 <br /> <br />a) Arrangements operated in the home of any child receiving care if all the children in care are <br />related to each other or no more than two additional children are in care; <br />b) Recreational programs operated for less than four consecutive months in a year; <br />c) Specialized activities or instruction such as athletics, dance, art, music lessons, horseback riding, <br />gymnastics, or organized clubs for children, such as Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, 4-H groups, or boys <br />and girls clubs; <br />d) Drop-in or short-term care provided while parents participate in activities that are not employment <br />related and where the parents are on the premises or otherwise easily accessible, such as drop- <br />in or short-term care provided in health spas, bowling alleys, shopping malls, resort hotels, or <br />churches; <br />e) Public schools; <br />f) Non-public schools described in Part 2 of Article 39 of Chapter 115C of the North Carolina <br />Statutes that are accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and that <br />operate a child care facility as defined under Child Care Facility for less than six and one-half <br />hours per day either on or off the school site; <br />g) Bible schools conducted during vacation periods; <br />h) Care provided by facilities licensed under Chapter 110, Article 7 of the North Carolina General <br />Statutes; <br />i) Cooperative arrangements among parents to provide care for their children as a convenience <br />rather than for employment; and <br />j) Any child care program or arrangement consisting of two or more separate components, each of <br />which operates for four hours or less per day with different children attending each component. <br />Child Care Facility <br />Use type offering temporary care to clients, including children, adolescents, and adults, for no more than <br />eight hours in a 24 hour period. Care can be offered regardless of the time of day and whether or not <br />operated for profit. Term Iincludes child care centers, and any other child care arrangement not excluded <br />by General Statute 110-86(2), that provides child care. <br />a) A child care center is an arrangement where, at any one time, there are three or more pre-school <br />children or nine or more school-aged children receiving child care. <br />b) A family child care home is a child care arrangement located in a residence where, at any one <br />time, more than two children, but fewer than nine children, receive child care. <br />Church <br />A structure in which persons regularly assemble for religious worship, which is maintained and controlled <br />by a religious body organized to sustain public worship. <br />Club or Lodge, Private <br />An establishment operated by a corporation or association of persons for social, recreational, fraternal or <br />charitable purposes, but which is not operated for profit or to render a service which is customarily <br />conducted as a business. <br />Cluster Development <br />A subdivision in which building lots are grouped together through a transfer of allowable density within the <br />subdivided tract. Cluster development permits more efficient development by creating lots with gross <br />land areas smaller than those required for conventional lot-by-lot development, yet maintains application <br />of normal lot density standards to the subdivided tract as a whole by requiring that land area saved by lot <br />size reductions be reserved as permanent open space and/or recreation space. <br />Cold Storage Facility <br />A facility used to warehouse perishable foods and products prior to transport. <br />Commercial-Industrial Transition Activity Node Land <br />Land near major transportation routes that could be provided with public water and wastewater services <br />and is appropriate for retail and other commercial uses; manufacturing and other industrial uses; office <br />and limited (not to exceed 25% of any Node) higher density residential uses. <br /> 154