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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 facility licensed by the appropriate state agency, as a group care facility for individuals who are <br />handicapped, aged, disabled, youthful offenders, addicted to alcohol or drugs, requiring professional <br />health care, adult supervision, or rehabilitation. <br />Remedy a violation <br />To bring the structure or other development into compliance with State and Orange County laws and <br />regulations. In terms of compliance with Orange County floodplain management regulations, the term <br />shall also include reduction of the impacts of a development’s noncompliance including protecting the <br />structure or other affected development from flood damages, implementing the enforcement provisions of <br />the ordinance or otherwise deterring future similar violations, or reducing federal financial exposure with <br />regard to the structure or other development. <br />Repetitive loss <br />Flood-related damages sustained by a structure on two separate occasions during any ten year period for <br />which the cost of repairs at the time of each such flood event, on the average, equals or exceeds 25% of <br />the market value, or the tax value in the absence of recent comparative sales, of the structure before the <br />damage occurred. <br />Research Facility Without Manufacturing <br />An enclosed structure which accommodates research and research applications. Facilities may include <br />laboratories, offices, and other facilities for research and development, as well as prototype production <br />facilities for product creation. Prototype production shall be limited in scale to that necessary to fully <br />analyze the merits of the product <br />Research and Manufacturing Facility With Manufacturing <br />An enclosed structure which accommodates research and research applications as well as related light <br />industrial uses. Facilities may include laboratories, offices, other facilities for research and development, <br />and production facilities. <br />Reservoir, Class I <br />A body of water, such as a pond or lake, confined by a dam or other barrier to be used for public water <br />supply from which water flows by gravity or is pumped directly to a treatment plant or to a small <br />intervening storage basin and thence to a treatment plant. <br />Reservoir, Class II <br />A body of water, such as a pond or lake, confined by a dam or other barrier to be used for public water <br />supply from which water flows by gravity or is pumped to a Class I reservoir prior to final entrance to a <br />water treatment plant. <br />Residential Development <br />Buildings for residential use such as attached and detached single family dwellings, apartment <br />complexes, condominiums, townhouses, cottages, and their associated outbuildings such as garages, <br />storage buildings, and gazebos. <br />Residential Floor Area <br />The sum of areas for residential use on all floors of the building measured from the outside faces of the <br />exterior walls, including halls, lobbies, stairways, elevator shafts, enclosed porches and balconies, and <br />below-grade floor areas used for habitation and residential access. <br />Not countable as floor area are: <br />a) Open terraces, patios, atriums, or balconies <br />b) Carports, garages, breezeways, toolsheds <br />c) Special-purpose areas for common use of occupants, such as recreation rooms of social halls <br />d) Staff space for therapy or examination in care housing <br />e) Basement space not used for living accommodations <br />255Nowincludedaspartofthe‘HealthandPersonalCareFacility’landuseundertheMedicalUseslanduse <br />category. <br /> 179