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osn?aoas ~-' <br />Salvage ym•d means property used for the storage collection and/or recycling, of anv type of <br />equipment whatsoever whether industrial or non-commercial, and including but not limited to <br />vehicles, appliances and related machinery. <br />Solid waste disposal facility means anv facility involved in the disposal of solid waste, as <br />defined in NCGS 130A-290(a){35). <br />Solid waste disposal site defined as in NCGS 130A-290(a)(36). <br />Special flood Isazm•d ae•ea (SFHA) means the land in the floodplain subiect to a one {1%) <br />percent or greater chance of being flooded in any given year as determined in Section 3.2 of this <br />Ordinance. <br />Start of Construction <br />~ . ~ R_ :-• n_____,,.. n,.+ r_u r o-, ~eot includes substantial improvement, and means the date the <br />buildingvpermit was issued, provided the actual start of construction; repair, reconstruction, <br />rehabilitation, addition placement, or other improvement was within 180 days of the permit date. The <br />actual start means either the first placement of permanent construction of a structure (including a <br />manufactured home) on a site, such as the pouring of slabs or footings, installation of piles, construction <br />of columns, or any work beyond the stage of excavation; or the placement of a manufactured home on a <br />foundation. Permanent construction does not include land preparation, such as cleazing, grading, and <br />filling; nor does it include the installation of streets and/or wallcways; nor does it include excavation for <br />a basement, footings, piers, or foundations or the erection of temporary forms; nor does it include the <br />installation on the property of accessory buildings, such as garages or sheds not occupied as dwelling <br />units or not part of the main structure,. For a substantial improvement, the actual start of construction <br />means the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor, or other structural part of the building, whether or <br />not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the building. <br />Structure means, fer -fle a walled and roofed building, a <br />manufactured home, or ~~~'~"a'ng a gas or liquid storage tank, "' '' ` ~'~`~ <br />i~ast~rEttrres that aze principally above ground. <br />Substantial damage means damage of any origin sustained by a structure during any one year <br />ep riod whereby the cost of restoring the structure to its before-damaged condition would equal or <br />exceed 50 percent of the mazlcet value of the structure before the damage occurred. See defmition of <br />"substantial improvement." Substantial damage also means flood-related damage sustained by a <br />time of each such flood event on the average equals or exceeds 25 percent of the market value of <br />the structure before the damage occurred. <br />Substantial impr°ovemernt means any combination of repairs, reconstruction, rehabilitation, <br />addition, or other improvement of a structure, taking place during any one year period whereby the <br />cost of which equals or exceeds 50 percent of the mazlcet value of the structure before the start of <br />construction of the improvement. This term includes structures, which have incurred substantial <br />damage, regardless of the actual repair work performed, The term does not, however, include either any <br />correction of existing violations of State or Orange County health, sanitary, or safety code specifications <br />which have been identified by the Orange County code enforcement official and which are the minimum <br />necessazy to assure safe living conditions, or any alteration of a historic structure provided that the <br />alteration will not preclude the structrue's continued designation as a historic structure. <br /> <br />