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Article 10: Definitions <br /> Section 10.1: Definitions <br /> <br />Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-65 <br /> <br />Telecommunication Facilities, Wireless facility Stealth <br />A wireless support structure designed using stealth technology such that its primary purpose is, or <br />visually appears to be, something other than the support of telecommunications equipment, the apparent <br />purpose of the wireless support structure is customarily considered as accessory to a use that is allowed <br />in the zoning district, and the structure and its primary use comply with this Ordinance. <br />Telecommunication Facilities, Wireless support structure <br />A new or existing structure, such as a monopole, lattice, or guyed tower that is designed to support or <br />capable of supporting wireless facilities. A utility pole is not a wireless support structure. <br />Telecommunication Facilities, Wireless Telecommunications Facility (WTF), <br />Includes both Telecommunications Site and Personal Wireless Facility <br />A structure, facility or location designed, or intended to be used as, or used to support antennas or other <br />transmitting or receiving devises. This includes without limit wireless support structures of all types, kinds <br />and structures, including, but not limited to buildings, church steeples, silos, water towers, signs or other <br />structures that can be used as a support structure for antennas or the functional equivalent of such. If <br />further includes all related facilities and equipment such as cabling, equipment shelters and other <br />structures associated with the facility. It is a structure and facility intended for transmitting and/or <br />receiving radio, television, cellular, SMR, paging, 911, personal communications services (PCS), <br />commercial satellite services, microwave services, and any commercial wireless telecommunication <br />service not licensed by the FCC. <br />Temporary Custodial Care Unit <br />A transportable residential structure facilitating a caregiver’s provision of short or long term care for a <br />mentally or physically impaired person that is primarily assembled offsite, has no more than 1,000 gross <br />square feet, and complies with applicable standards of the North Carolina State Building Code and/or <br />Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Temporary custodial care units shall not be <br />installed on a permanent foundation and shall be classified as an accessory use to an single family <br />detached dwelling unit. Includes mobile homes and temporary health care structures. <br />Temporary Residential Mobile Home <br />A mobile home, intended for residential use for a limited period of time, for purposes of providing <br />temporary residential space during the installation of a replacement mobile home or construction of a <br />stick-built or modular residential unit on the same lot, and for 30 days after the issuance of Certificate of <br />Occupancy for the permanent unit. The temporary mobile home is not attached to a permanent or semi- <br />permanent foundation. <br />Temporary Residential Unit <br />A residential unit occupied for no more than 180 days and connected to temporary utility services. The <br />term includes recreational vehicles, travel trailers, recreational park trailers, FEMA trailers, etc. <br />Temporary Use Building <br />A building, not intended for residential use, consisting of one or more modules constructed off the ultimate <br />site of use. The building is also not attached to a permanent or semi-permanent foundation. <br />Ten-Year Transition Land <br />Land located in areas that are in the process of changing from rural to urban densities and/or intensities, <br />that are suitable for higher densities and/or intensities and could be provided with public utilities and <br />services within the first 10-year phase of the Comprehensive Plan update or where such utilities and <br />services are already present or planned. Non-residential uses implemented in accordance with small <br />area plans and/or overlay districts may be appropriate. <br />Textile Mills <br />Land uses involved with the transformation of a basic fiber, natural or synthetic, into a final product further <br />manufacturing into usable items off-site. <br /> 189