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Article 10: Definitions <br /> Section 10.1: Definitions <br /> <br />Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-60 <br /> <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) <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. Activities may be permitted as a <br />School: Technical, Trade, and Skill Training or School: Performing Arts, Sports, and Recreation land <br />uses depending on the specific proposal. <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 />All divisions of a tract or parcel of land into two or more lots, building sites or other divisions for the <br />purpose of sale or building development (whether immediate or future) and includes all division of land <br />involving the dedication of a new street or a change in existing streets. <br />Subdivision, Exempt <br />a) The combination or recombination of portions of previously subdivided and recorded lots if the <br />total number of lots is not increased and the resultant lots are equal to or exceed the standards of <br />the County, including private road justification standards, as detailed within this Ordinance. <br />b) The division of land into parcels greater than 10 acres if no street right-of-way dedication is <br />involved. <br />c) The public acquisition by purchase of strips of land for widening or opening streets. <br />d) The division of a tract in single ownership of the entire area of which is no greater than two acres <br />into not more than three lots, if no street right-of-way dedication is involved and if the resultant <br />lots are equal to or exceed the standards of the County as shown by its subdivision regulations. <br />Subdivision, Major <br />Any division of land that is not classified as an Exempt or Minor subdivision. <br />Subdivision, Minor <br />A division of a tract of land that does not: <br />a) Create more than five lots for conventional design options, or more than 12 lots for flexible <br />development, including the residual acreage, from any one tract of land in any 24 month period; <br />b) Dedicate or improve any new public street other than widening an existing public street; <br />c) Extend public water and/or sanitary sewerage systems other than laterals to serve individual lots; <br />d) Necessitate the installation of drainage improvements which would require easements through <br />one or more lots to serve other lots; and <br /> 187