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Article 10: Definitions <br /> Section 10.1: Definitions <br /> <br />Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-66 <br /> <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 />Theater <br />A building or outdoor area in which performances are preformed or shown. The term does not include <br />structures primarily constructed to support the holding and/or staging of sporting events where outdoor <br />performances may be held as an accessory use. 312 <br />Tourist Home313 <br />A building or group of attached or detached buildings containing, in combination, three to nine lodging <br />units for occupancy for daily or weekly periods, with or without board, and primarily for occupancy by <br />transients, as distinguished from rooming houses, in which occupancy is primarily by residents rather than <br />transients. <br />Traffic Generation: Low <br />Uses which generate an average of less than 200 vehicle trips per day. <br />Traffic Generation: Medium <br />Uses which generate an average of between 200 and 800 vehicle trips per day. <br />Traffic Generation: High <br />Uses which generate an average of more than 800 vehicle trips per day. <br /> <br />312 As we are combining several land uses into a single category, staff is recommending a new definition of Theater  <br />to accommodate all such activities.  <br />313 Staff is recommending elimination of the term as the use is being included within the ‘Short Term Rental –  <br />Large’ and ‘Rooming House’ land use categories.  <br />208