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Index 146 <br /> drilling operations, or storage of equipment or Pedestrian/Landscaped Space, <br /> materials. Also includes any land disturbing Pedestrian/Landscaped Space Ratio.) <br /> activityLand-Disturbing Activity which adds to or <br /> changes the amount of impervious or partially Development, Multi-phase <br /> impervious cover on a land area or which A development containing 100 acres or more <br /> otherwise decreases the infiltration of that (i) is submitted for site plan approval for <br /> precipitation into the soil. construction to occur in more than one phase, <br /> and (ii) is subject to a master development plan <br /> Development Activity with committed elements, including a <br /> In the context of property encumbered by requirement to offer land for public use as a <br /> Special Flood Hazard Area this term includes condition of its master development plan <br /> any activity defined as Development which will approval. Note that"master development plan" <br /> necessitate a Floodplain Development Permit. is not the same as the master plan required as <br /> This includes buildings, structures, and non- part of an MPD-CD (Master Plan Development) <br /> structural items, including but not limited to: fill, application. <br /> bulkheads, piers, pools, docks, landings, ramps, <br /> and erosion control/stabilization measures. Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map <br /> (DFIRM) <br /> Development, Existing The digital official map of a community, issued <br /> In the context of Stormwater provisions of this by the Federal Emergency Management Agency <br /> Ordinance for projects that do not require a (FEMA), on which both the Special Flood <br /> State permit, shall be defined as those projects Hazard Areas and the risk premium zones <br /> that are built, or those projects that at a applicable to the community are delineated. <br /> minimum have established a vested right under <br /> North Carolina zoning law as of the effective Direct Light <br /> date of Orange County's Water Supply Light emitted directly from the lamp, off of the <br /> Watershed Protection Ordinance, or such earlier reflector diffuser, or through the refractor or <br /> time that other Orange County ordinances shall diffuser lens, of a luminaire. <br /> specify, based on at least one of the following <br /> criteria: <br /> a) Substantial expenditures of resources Discharge <br /> (time, labor, money) based on a good The addition of any human-induced effluent <br /> faith reliance upon having received a either directly or indirectly to state surface <br /> valid Orange County approval to waters. <br /> proceed with the project, or <br /> b) Having an outstanding building permit in Discharge, Domestic Wastewater <br /> compliance with G.S. 160D-102 or G.S. Sewage, unprocessed industrial wastewater, <br /> 160D-108, or other domestic wastewater, or any combination <br /> c) Having an approved site specific vesting of these items. Domestic wastewater includes, <br /> plan or multi-phase development plan in but is not limited to, liquid waste generated by <br /> compliance with G.S. 160D-102 or G.S. domestic water using fixtures and appliances, <br /> 160D-108. from any residence, place of business, or place <br /> For projects that require a State permit, such as of public assembly, even if it contains no <br /> landfills, NPDES wastewater discharges, land sewage. Examples of domestic wastewater <br /> application of residuals, and road construction include once-through non-contact cooling water, <br /> activities, existing development shall be defined seafood packing facility discharges, and <br /> as those projects that are built or those projects wastewater from restaurants. <br /> for which a State permit was issued prior to <br /> August 3, 1992. <br /> Development Intensity Definitions Discharge, Industrial <br /> (See Non-residential Land Area, Non-residential The discharge of industrial process treated <br /> Floor Area, Residential Floor Area, Floor Area wastewater or wastewater other than sewage. <br /> Ratio, Open Space, Open Space Ratio, Livability Stormwater runoff352 shall not be considered to <br /> Space, Livability Space Ratio, Recreation be an industrial wastewater unless it is <br /> Space, Recreation Space Ratio, <br /> "I Consistent use of"stormwater runoff". <br /> Orange County, North Carolina—Unified Development Ordinance Page Index-9 <br />