<div class="chunk-title">Section 41. - Word and Term Definitions.</div>
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               <span class="ital">Accessory Use or Structures:</span> A use or a structure on the same lot with, but of a nature customarily incidental
               and subordinate to, the principal use of structure.
               </p>
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               <span class="ital">Airport:</span>
               
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<sup>[3]</sup> Shall mean the Goldsboro Wayne Airport, Mount Olive Airport, or Seymour Johnson Air
               Force Base.
               
               </p>
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               <span class="ital">Airport Elevation:</span>
               
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<sup>[4]</sup> The highest point of the airport's usable landing area measured in feet above sea
               level.
               
               
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                  (a)
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                  Goldsboro-Wayne Airport - 134 feet.
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                  (b)
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                  Mount Olive Airport - 168 feet.
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                  (c)
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                  Seymour Johnson Air Force Base - 109 feet.
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               <span class="ital">Airport Hazard:</span> Any structure, tree or use of land which obstructs the airspace required for or is
               otherwise hazardous to the flight of aircraft in landing or taking off at the airport.
               </p>
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               <span class="ital">Airport Reference Point:</span> The point established as the approximate geographic center of the airport landing
               area.
               </p>
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               <span class="ital">Alter:</span> To make any structural changes in the supporting or load-bearing members of a building,
               such as walls, columns, beams, girders, or floor joists.
               </p>
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               <span class="ital">Approach Surface:</span> An inclined plane located directly above the approach area of an airport, which extends
               outward from both ends of the runway.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Buildable Area:</span> The portion of a lot remaining after required yards have been provided.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Building:</span> Any structure or edifice having a roof supported by columns or walls and intended
               for shelter, housing or enclosure or persons, animals, or chattels.
               </p>
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               <span class="ital">Certificate of Occupancy:</span> A statement, signed by the Zoning Enforcement Officer or his assistant, setting forth
               that the building, structure, or use of land complies with the Zoning Ordinance of
               Wayne County, North Carolina, and that the same may be used for the purpose stated
               therein.
               </p>
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               <span class="ital">Dwelling, Single Family:</span> A detached residential dwelling unit, other than a mobile home, designed for and
               occupied by one family only.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Dwelling, Two Family:</span> A detached residential building containing two dwelling units and designed for occupancy
               by not more than two families.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Dwelling, Multiple Family:</span> A detached building used for or designed as a residence for more than two families
               living independently of each other.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Dwelling Unit:</span> One room, or rooms connected together, constituting a separate independent housekeeping
               establishment with complete living facilities for one family.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Family:</span> One or more persons occupying a premises and living as a single housekeeping unit
               but not including a group occupying a boarding house, club, fraternity house, or similar
               type dwelling.
               </p>
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               <span class="ital">Height:</span>
               
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<sup>[5]</sup> For the purpose of determining the height limits in the airport height restrictive
               area, the datum shall be 1987 North American Datum.
               
               </p>
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               <span class="ital">Home Occupation:</span> An occupation for gain or support customarily conducted on the premises by a person
               or family residing thereon.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Junk Yard:</span> A place where junk, waste, discarded, or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged,
               stored, baled, disassembled or handled including automobile wrecking yards, house
               wrecking, structural steel materials and equipment, but not including the purchase
               or storage of used furniture or used cars in operable condition.
               </p>
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               <span class="ital">Lot Line, Front:</span> Any boundary line of a lot running along a street right of way line.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Lot:</span> A parcel of land under a single ownership occupied or capable of being occupied by
               a principle building together with its accessory buildings, including the open space
               required under the terms of this ordinance.
               </p>
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               <span class="ital">Lot Depth:</span> The depth of a lot is the distance in the mean direction of the side lot line from
               midpoint of the front lot line to the midpoint of the rear lot line.
               </p>
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               <span class="ital">Lot of Record:</span> A lot which is a part of a subdivision, a plat which has been recorded in the office
               of the Register of Deeds of Wayne County, or a lot which has been recorded and described
               by metes and bounds.
               </p>
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               <span class="ital">Lot Width:</span> The distance between side lot lines measured at the building line.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Mobile Home:</span> Any vehicle or similar portable structure mounted, or designed to be mounted, on
               wheels for transportation after fabrication to a site where it is to be occupied as
               a dwelling unit. Such unit shall be considered a mobile home whether or not the wheels
               have been removed, and whether or not it has been set on jacks, skirtings, or other
               supports. A "travel trailer" or "camper" shall not be considered a mobile home.
               </p>
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               <span class="ital">Mobile Home, Class A:</span>
               
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<sup>[6]</sup> A new mobile home certified as meeting construction standards developed by the U.S.
               Department of Housing and Urban Development that were in effect at the time of construction
               and that satisfies each of the following additional criteria:
               
               
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                  (a)
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                  The home has a length not exceeding three times it [its] width.
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                  (b)
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                  The pitch of the home's roof has a minimum vertical rise of one foot for each three
                  feet of horizontal run, and the run is finished with a type of shingle that is commonly
                  used in standard residential construction.
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                  (c)
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                  The exterior siding consists of wood, hardboard, or aluminum (vinyl covered or painted)
                  or comparable in composition appearance, and durability to the exterior siding commonly
                  used in standard residential construction.
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                  (d)
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                  The tongues, axles, transporting lights, and removable towing apparatus are removed
                  after placement on the lot and before occupancy.
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               <span class="ital">Mobile Home, Class B:</span>
               
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<sup>[7]</sup> A mobile home that meets all of the criteria of a Class A mobile home except the
               length/width ratio.
               
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Mobile Home Park:</span> Any plot of ground upon which two or more mobile homes, occupied for dwelling or
               sleeping purposes are located, regardless of whether or not a charge is made for such
               accommodations.
               </p>
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               <span class="ital">Nonconforming Use:</span> A use of a building or land that does not conform with the regulations of the district
               in which such building or land is situated.
               </p>
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               <span class="ital">Obstruction:</span>
               
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<sup>[8]</sup> Any structure, growth, or other object, including a mobile object, which exceeds
               a limiting height set forth in this ordinance.
               
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               <span class="ital">Planned Unit Development:</span> The planned residential development of mixed structures such as apartments, townhouses,
               rowhouses, and cluster subdivision, usually incorporating privately owned, open common
               areas.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Public Sewer System:</span> Any sewage disposal system, whether operated publicly or privately, other than a
               pit privy or a septic tank located on the lot.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Public Water System:</span> A system operated publicly or privately whereby the water source is not located on
               the lot of the consumers and the number of connections must be at least ten (10).
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Setback Line:</span> The line on the front, rear, and sides of a lot which delineates the area within
               which a structure may be built and maintained, according to the district regulations.
               </p>
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               <span class="ital">Shopping Center:</span> Two or more commercial establishments planned and constructed as a single unit with
               off-street parking and loading facilities provided on the property and related in
               location, size and type of shops to the trade area which the unit serves.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Sign:</span> Any device designed to inform or attract the attention of persons not on the premises
               on which the sign is located.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Sign, Advertising:</span> Any sign, including a standard poster panel either freestanding of [or] attached
               to a structure, which directs attention to a business commodity, service, entertainment,
               or other activity conducted, sold, or offered at another place other than on the property
               on which the sign is located.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Sign, Business Identification:</span> A sign which directs attention to a business commodity, service, entertainment, or
               other activity conducted, sold, or offered on the premises upon which the sign is
               located.
               </p>
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               <span class="ital">Special Use:</span> A use that would not be generally appropriate without restriction throughout the
               zoning district but which, if controlled as to number, area, location, or relation
               to the neighborhood, would promote the health, safety, morals general welfare, order,
               comfort, convenience, appearance, or prosperity. Such uses may be permitted in such
               zoning district as Special Uses if specific provision for such is made in this zoning
               ordinance.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Street:</span> A dedicated and accepted public right-of-way which affords the principal means of
               access to abutting properties for vehicular traffic.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Variance:</span> A modification of the terms of the zoning ordinance where such will not be contrary
               to the public interest and where, owing to conditions peculiar to the property and
               not the result of the actions of the applicant, a literal enforcement of the ordinance
               would result in unnecessary and undue hardship. A variance may be granted only for
               dimensional changes in height, area, and size of yards and open spaces. The establishment
               or expansion of a use otherwise prohibited shall not be allowed by a variance.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Yard:</span> A required open space unoccupied and unobstructed by any principal structure or portion
               of a structure from ground to sky.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Yard, Front:</span> A yard extending between side lot lines across the front of a lot between the front
               line of the building and the front line of the lot.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Yard, Rear:</span> A yard extending across the full width of the lot and measured between the rear line
               on the lot and the rear line of the main building.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Yard, Side:</span> A yard extending from the rear line of the required front yard to the rear lot line.
               </p>
            <p class="p0">
               <span class="ital">Zoning Certificate:</span> A certificate issued by the Zoning Enforcement Officer when a proposal to use or
               occupy a lot or structure, or to erect install, or alter a structure, building sign
               or lot, fully meets the requirements of this ordinance.
               </p><div class="footnote-content"><div style="font-weight:bold;">Footnotes: </div> --- (<b>3</b>) ---
            
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               Adopted June 3, 2008.
               </p>
            <br> --- (<b>4</b>) ---
            
            <p class="refmanualFN">
               Adopted June 3, 2008.
               </p>
            <br> --- (<b>5</b>) ---
            
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               Adopted June 3, 2008.
               </p>
            <br> --- (<b>6</b>) ---
            
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               Adopted August 8, 1995.
               </p>
            <br> --- (<b>7</b>) ---
            
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               Adopted August 8, 2005.
               </p>
            <br> --- (<b>8</b>) ---
            
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               Adopted June 3, 2008.
               </p>
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