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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 10-18
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<br />The distance measured along the designated front lot line or public or private right-of-way or easement,
<br />as determined by the Planning Director, which affords vehicular access to the property between the
<br />points of intersection of the side lot lines with such right-of-way or easement. For the purposes of this
<br />definition, businesses have only one frontage.
<br />Frontage, Tenant
<br />Each lineal foot, or major portion thereof, measured along the main entry of a tenant space within a non-
<br />residential complex.
<br />Full Cutoff Fixture
<br />See Outdoor Lighting, Full Cutoff Fixture.
<br />Functionally Dependent Facility
<br />A facility, which cannot be used for its intended purpose unless it is located in close proximity to water,
<br />such as a docking, or port facility necessary for the loading and unloading of cargo or passengers,
<br />shipbuilding, or ship repair. The term does not include long-term storage, manufacture, sales, or service
<br />facilities.
<br />Garden Center
<br />Retail sales operation providing lawn and garden supplies and small equipment rental primarily for home
<br />landscaping. Typical products include, but not limited to, decorative stone, garden ornaments, decorative
<br />pots, container plant stock, and bagged or bulk sand, mulch and topsoil. Seasonal sales such as
<br />Christmas trees, pumpkins and flowers are permitted in the outdoor display area.
<br />General Use Zoning District
<br />The various zoning districts contained in Article 3 of this Ordinance that are not Conditional Districts.
<br />Conditions cannot be applied to general use zoning districts.
<br />Glare
<br />Light emitting from a luminaire, solar panel, glass, or similar reflective surface with an intensity great
<br />enough to reduce a viewer’s ability to see or to cause annoyance, and, in extreme cases, causing
<br />momentary blindness.
<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
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