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Article 10: Definitions 201 <br /> Section 10.1: Definitions <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 /> f) Any commercial or other non-residential space. <br /> Residential Land Area <br /> All portions of a parcel or tract of land intended to support residential development of any classification <br /> (i.e. single-family, multi-family, etc), including accessory uses, and all land necessary to comply with the <br /> provisions of this Ordinance. With respect to subdivisions and Conditional District projects, this term shall <br /> be construed as including streets located entirely within the residential portion(s)of the development, <br /> common open space, lands accepted for dedication for public purposes, and accessory and commercial <br /> uses when developed as part of a mixed use development project. <br /> Residential Use <br /> A use of property characterized by the use of a structure(s)for habitation by an individual, family, or group <br /> of unrelated individuals. <br /> Resources Management Plan <br /> A document and map, submitted as a part of a Major Subdivision, Class A Special Use Permit application <br /> or a Major Subdivision, Conditional District Atlas Amendment with SUP application, that sets forth, in <br /> detail, the location of and the proposed methods for: <br /> a) Protection of natural resources (i.e. habitat maintenance, existing vegetation, and mitigation of <br /> environmentally sensitive areas), <br /> b) Ownership and maintenance of open spaces (common open space, proposed conservation <br /> easements, and landscape buffers) <br /> c) Provision of services (solid waste management to include recycling, storm water management <br /> (temporary and permanent), irrigation systems to include the source of water, <br /> d) The handling of land clearing debris. <br /> Restaurant "' <br /> An establishment whose principal business is the sale of food and beverages to the customer in a ready- <br /> to-consume state, and whose design or principal method of operation includes one or both of the <br /> following: <br /> a) Customers, normally provided with an individual menu, are served their foods and/or beverages <br /> by a restaurant employee at the same table or counter at which said items are consumed. <br /> b) A cafeteria style setting is provided where food, and/or beverages are consumed within the <br /> restaurant structure. <br /> Restaurant, Carry-Out <br /> to consume state, and whose design or method of operation includes the fOIIOW*Rg GhaFaGteFi6tiGS: <br /> a) Foods and beverages within the restaurant building, within a motor veh Cie parked upon the <br /> premises, or at other facilities on the premises outside the building, is posted as being prohibited <br /> r d o Gh prehihi+ien is o+riGtly enfeFGe.d by the restaurateur. <br /> b) Feeds and beverages are usually served iR edible, paper, plaStiG er other dispesal GentaiRers. <br /> 264 Staff is recommending keeping the definition of restaurant but eliminating the definitions of Restaurant, <br /> Restaurant-Carry Out and Restaurant Drive-in as these are no longer useful. Proposed standards provide limits as <br /> to where these types of facilities can be located. Please note all restaurant and nightclub operations have been <br /> combined into a new land use category entitled Eating and Drinking Establishments. <br /> Orange County, North Carolina—Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-41 <br />