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Article 10: Definitions Section 10.1: Definitions Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-40 does not include the salvaging of metal or motor vehicles. Please refer to ‘Junkyard/Salvage’ as defined herein. Reference level The bottom of the lowest horizontal structure member of the lowest floor for structures within all Special Flood Hazard Areas. Regulatory flood protection elevation The Base Flood Elevation plus the Freeboard establishes this elevation. In Special Flood Hazard Areas where Base Flood Elevations have been determined, this elevation shall be the Base Flood Elevation plus two feet of freeboard. In Special Flood Hazard Areas where no BFE has been established, this elevation shall be at two feet above the highest adjacent grade. Regulatory flood protection elevation is interchangeable with “design floods”. Rehabilitative Care Facility299 A facility licensed by the appropriate state agency, as a group care facility for individuals who are handicapped, aged, disabled, youthful offenders, addicted to alcohol or drugs, requiring professional health care, adult supervision, or rehabilitation. Remedy a violation To bring the structure or other development into compliance with State and Orange County laws and regulations. In terms of compliance with Orange County floodplain management regulations, the term shall also include reduction of the impacts of a development’s noncompliance including protecting the structure or other affected development from flood damages, implementing the enforcement provisions of the ordinance or otherwise deterring future similar violations, or reducing federal financial exposure with regard to the structure or other development. Repetitive loss Flood-related damages sustained by a structure on two separate occasions during any ten year period for which the cost of repairs at the time of each such flood event, on the average, equals or exceeds 25% of the market value, or the tax value in the absence of recent comparative sales, of the structure before the damage occurred. Research Facility Without Manufacturing An enclosed structure which accommodates research and research applications. Facilities may include laboratories, offices, and other facilities for research and development, as well as prototype production facilities for product creation. Prototype production shall be limited in scale to that necessary to fully analyze the merits of the product Research and Manufacturing Facility With Manufacturing An enclosed structure which accommodates research and research applications as well as related light industrial uses. Facilities may include laboratories, offices, other facilities for research and development, and production facilities. Reservoir, Class I A body of water, such as a pond or lake, confined by a dam or other barrier to be used for public water supply from which water flows by gravity or is pumped directly to a treatment plant or to a small intervening storage basin and thence to a treatment plant. Reservoir, Class II A body of water, such as a pond or lake, confined by a dam or other barrier to be used for public water supply from which water flows by gravity or is pumped to a Class I reservoir prior to final entrance to a water treatment plant. 299 Now included as part of the ‘Health and Personal Care Facility’ land use under the Medical Uses land use category. 197