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Article 10: Definitions 307 <br /> Section 10.1: Definitions <br /> Frontage, Tenant <br /> Each lineal foot, or major portion thereof, measured along the main entry of a tenant space within a non- <br /> residential complex. <br /> Full Cutoff Fixture <br /> See Outdoor Lighting, Full Cutoff Fixture. <br /> Functionally Dependent Facility <br /> A facility, which cannot be used for its intended purpose unless it is located in close proximity to water, <br /> such as a docking, or port facility necessary for the loading and unloading of cargo or passengers, <br /> shipbuilding, or ship repair. The term does not include long-term storage, manufacture, sales, or service <br /> facilities. <br /> Garden Center <br /> Retail sales operation providing lawn and garden supplies and small equipment rental primarily for home <br /> landscaping. Typical products include, but not limited to, decorative stone, garden ornaments, decorative <br /> pots, container plant stock, and bagged or bulk sand, mulch and topsoil. Seasonal sales such as <br /> Christmas trees, pumpkins and flowers are permitted in the outdoor display area. <br /> General Use Zoning Distric <br /> Glare <br /> Light emitting from a luminaire, solar panel, glass, or similar reflective surface with an intensity great <br /> enough to reduce a viewer's ability to see or to cause annoyance, and, in extreme cases, causing <br /> momentary blindness. <br /> Golf Course <br /> A tract of land designed and laid out for the game of golf. Golf courses include, but are not limited to <br /> courses open to the general public for a daily user fee, private courses available to members and their <br /> guests, courses proposed as single, independent uses, as well as those planned as an accessory use <br /> which is part of a residential or recreational development. <br /> A golf course development may also include the following accessory uses and building typically <br /> associated with such a facility: club house; restaurant/snack bar; barroom; prop shop; billiards; table <br /> tennis, spa/health club; racquetball, hand ball, and tennis courts; swimming pool; locker rooms; and real <br /> estate sales office. <br /> Goods, Incidental <br /> Retail goods for sale in a manner customary and subordinate to the provision of a service, eg. Beautician <br /> selling hair products. <br /> Gross Floor Area <br /> The area within the perimeter of the outside walls of a building as measured from the exterior face of the <br /> exterior walls or from the centerlines of walls separating two buildings, with no deduction for hallways, <br /> stairs, closets, thickness of walls, columns, or other interior features. <br /> Group Care Facility <br /> A facility licensed by the appropriate State agency providing room and board for seven to 15 unrelated <br /> individuals, excluding staff, who as a result of age, illness, handicap or some specialized program require <br /> personalized services or a supervised living arrangement in order to assure their safety and comfort <br /> Group Development <br /> 161 The term has been changed to"Conventional Zoning District"and it has been relocated to appropriate <br /> alphabetized placement. <br /> Orange County, North Carolina—Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-18 <br />