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Article 10: Definitions
<br /> Section 10.1: Definitions
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<br />Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-41
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<br />Residential Development
<br />Buildings for residential use such as attached and detached single family dwellings, apartment
<br />complexes, condominiums, townhouses, cottages, and their associated outbuildings such as garages,
<br />storage buildings, and gazebos.
<br />Residential Floor Area
<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 300
<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
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<br />300 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.
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