Agenda - 05-04-2021; 5-b - Unified Development Ordinance Text Amendments

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Article 10: Definitions 326 Section 10.1: Definitions s tantial improvement, the actual start of construction means the first alteration of any wall, ceilin , floor, other structural part of the building, whether or not that alteration affects the external di nsions of the bui ' State Agency Every department, agen institution, public authority, board, commission, b au, division, council, member of Council of State, officer of the State government of the St of North Carolina. State Clearinghouse The clearinghouse agency established by North Caroli Department of Administration under the North Carolina Environmental Policy Act. State Mandate The minimum Rules adopted by the En i nmental Managem t Commission for application to North Carolina's water supply watershed s required by the Water Su Watershed Protection Act. The purpose of the Act, as stated i ' opening paragraph, is "... to protec d enhance the quality of the State's surface water sup s by establishing a cooperative program of w supply protection to be administered by local ernments consistent with statewide management req ' ements established by the Environmenta anagement Commission (EMC)." (See related definition "Wate upply watershed"). Stock d / Livestock Market A f ity where livestock are kept temporarily awaiting purchase and/or transport; such facilities ' clude enclosed pavilions, grandstands, paddocks, and stalls. Storage of Goods A land use where secured space, indoors or outdoors, is rented to tenants for the safeguarding and/or keepingof general merchandise, refrigerated goods, and other personal items on a short or long term basis_;3 Sttoo n ater Collection System Any conduit, channel, curb, or gutter for the primary purpose of transporting (not treatinU�i off. A stormwater collection m does include vegetated swales, swales stabilized with ring or alternative methods where na topography prevents the use of vegetate es (subject to case-by- case review), curb outlet systems or p' used to carry drainage u eath built-upon surfaces that are associated with development controlled by th visions of CAC 2H 1003(c)(1). Stormwater Control Measure (S A structural or non-structural ma ment-based practice used singula in combination to reduce non-point source pollutio receiving waters in order to achieve water quality p tion and water quantity limitatio a s. (See also, Detention Pond and Engineered Stormwater Contro . The term takes t ce of what was originally referred to, and defined as a 'Best Management Practice Stream A body of concentrated flowing water in a natural low area or natural channel on the land surface19174 Stream Buffer An area of land adjacent to a stream or a FEMA-identified floodplain, whichever is greater, which, except as permitted within this Ordinance, must remain undisturbed in its natural state. Streams are identified by any of the following means: a) Shown as solid blue lines or as broken blue lines on the USGS Quadrangle maps, b) Shown as a water feature in the Orange County Soil Survey, or 173 Correct punctuation. 174 Add punctuation. Orange County, North Carolina—Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-55