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Article 10: Definitions Section 10.1: Definitions Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-10 Day Care Facility Any day care center or child care arrangement that provides day care for more than five children, not including the operator’s school age children, under the age of 13, on a regular basis of at least once per week for more than four hours but less than 24 hours per day, and those operating fewer than four hours per day that provide care for more children per adult care giver than would be permitted in an AA State licensed center, regardless of the time of day and regardless of whether the same children attend regularly. The following facilities are not included: a) Public schools; b) Non-public schools whether or not accredited by the State Department of Public Instruction, which regularly and exclusively provide a course of grade school instruction to children who are of public school age; c) Summer camps having children in full-time residence; d) Bible schools conducted for no more than three weeks during vacation periods; and e) Cooperative arrangements among parents who care only for their own children in an arrangement as a matter of convenience rather than to enable any participating parent to be employed. Day Care Home, Large240 A Day Care Facility located on a public state-maintained road, which provides day care for more than five but fewer than 16 children, within a residence. Dedication A gift, by the owner, of land for a specified purpose, or purposes. Because a transfer of property is entailed, dedication must be made by written instrument and is completed with an acceptance. Designated Public Sewer Service Area An area located within Orange County’s Primary Service Area in the Water and Sewer Management, Planning, and Boundary Agreement, that is currently served by public sewer or is expected to be served by public sewer in the near-term (e.g., 18 months; demonstrated by issuance of an advertisement for bid, or similar device, for construction of public sewer facilities). Detention Pond A engineered stormwater control consisting of a pond constructed and maintained in accordance with Appendix A of this Ordinance, which allows for pollutants to settle and provides for the gradual release of the impounded water. The detention pond is the Best Management Practice which must be used within protected watersheds when engineered stormwater controls are required. (See also, Best Management Practices and Engineered Stormwater Controls) Development Any constructed change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations, or storage of equipment or materials. Also includes any land-disturbing activity which adds to or changes the amount of impervious or partially impervious cover on a land area or which otherwise decreases the infiltration of precipitation into the soil. Development Activity In the context of property encumbered by Special Flood Hazard Area this term includes any activity defined as Development which will necessitate a Floodplain Development Permit. This includes buildings, structures, and non-structural items, including but not limited to: fill, bulkheads, piers, pools, docks, landings, ramps, and erosion control/stabilization measures. Development, Existing 240ThetermisnolongerlistedwithintheTableofPermittedlanduses.Staffisrecommendingwedeletethe definition.TherearecurrentlyopportunitiestoapplyforaCareFacility(i.e.ClassBSpecialUsePermit)inthe majorityofresidentialdistrictsaddressingthisneed. 159