<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 70-129. - Other definitions.</div>
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               The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the
               meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
               a different meaning:
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               <span class="ital">Abutting</span> means having a common border with, or being separated from such common border by,
               an alley or easement.
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               <span class="ital">Access</span> means a means of vehicular approach or entry to or exit from property.
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               <span class="ital">Block</span> means a piece of land bounded on one or more sides by streets or roads.
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               <span class="ital">Buffer strip</span> means a planted strip of land which shall be a minimum of 25 feet in width and shall
               be composed of any type of pine tree, spaced no less than 40 feet apart on centerline;
               and evergreen shrubbery of a variety that will attain a height of at least six feet
               at maturity, spaced no less than four feet apart on centerline.
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               <span class="ital">Building</span> means a structure with a roof supported by columns or walls, intended to provide
               shelter for persons, property, animals, or business activity. The term includes roof,
               gutters, walls, downspouts, porches, foundations, crawl spaces, windows, floors, doors
               and any other part thereof.
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               <span class="ital">Building, accessory,</span> means a building which:
               
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                  (1)
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                  Is subordinate to and serves a principal structure or a principal use;
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                  (2)
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                  Is subordinate in area, extent, and purpose to the principal structure or use served;
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                  (3)
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                  Is located on the same lot as the principal structure or use served except as otherwise
                  expressly authorized by provisions of this chapter; and
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                  (4)
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                  Is customarily incidental to the principal structure or use.
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               Any portion of principal structure devoted or intended to be devoted to an accessory
               use is not an accessory structure.
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               <span class="ital">Building, front,</span> means that exterior wall of a building which faces a front lot line of the lot.
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               <span class="ital">Building setback line</span> means a line parallel to the front property line in front of which no structure shall
               be erected. Setbacks shall be figured from the right-of-way line.
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               <span class="ital">Community water supply</span> means a public water supply that serves a community that is not an incorporated municipality.
               This includes unincorporated communities, subdivisions, and/or mobile home parks having
               ten or more connections.
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               <span class="ital">Dedication</span> means a gift, by the owner, or a right to use of land for a specified purpose or
               purposes. Because a transfer or property rights is entailed, dedication must be made
               in written instrument, and is completed with an acceptance.
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               <span class="ital">Developer</span> means any person, firm, trust, partnership, association or corporation engaged in
               development, or proposed development, of a parcel or parcels of land.
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               <span class="ital">Development</span> means the division of a parcel of land into two or more parcels; the construction,
               reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration, relocation, or enlargement of any
               buildings; any use or change in use of any buildings or land; and extension of any
               use of land or any clearing, grading, or other movement of land, for which permission
               may be required pursuant to this chapter.
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               <span class="ital">Drainage</span> means the removal of surface water or groundwater from land by drains, grading, or
               other means. Drainage includes the control of runoff to minimize erosion and sedimentation
               during and after development and includes the means necessary for water-supply preservation
               or prevention or alleviation of flooding.
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               <span class="ital">Easement</span> means a grant by the property owner of a strip of land for a specified purpose and
               use by the public, a corporation, or persons.
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               <span class="ital">Flood hazard area</span> means an area designated to be within the 100-year flood zone according to maps of
               the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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               <span class="ital">Frontage</span> means the distance between the two side lot lines as measured along the right-of-way
               line.
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               <span class="ital">Lot</span> means a portion of a subdivision, or any other parcel of land, intended as a unit
               of transfer of ownership of for development, or both.
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               <span class="ital">Lot of record</span> means a lot which is part of a subdivision, a plat of which has been recorded in
               the office of the register of deeds of the county prior to the adoption of the ordinance
               from which this chapter is derived, or a lot described by metes and bounds, the description
               of which has been so recorded prior to the adoption of the ordinance from which this
               chapter is derived.
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               <span class="ital">Official maps or plans</span> means any maps or plans officially adopted by the board of commissioners of the county.
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               <span class="ital">Plat</span> means a map or plan of a parcel of land which is to be, or has been subdivided.
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               <span class="ital">Professional engineer</span> means a person who has been duly registered and licensed as a professional engineer
               by the North Carolina State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land
               Surveyors.
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               <span class="ital">Public or community sewage system</span> means a single system of sewage collection, treatment, and disposal owned and operated
               by a sanitary district, a water and sewer authority, a county or municipality, or
               a public utility.
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               <span class="ital">Recreation area or park</span> means an area of land or combination of land and water resources that is developed
               for active and/or passive recreation pursuits with various manmade features that accommodate
               such activities.
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               <span class="ital">Registered land surveyor</span> means a person who, by reason of his special knowledge of mathematics, surveying
               principles, and methods, and legal requirements which are acquired by education and/or
               practical experience, is qualified to engage in the practice of land surveying, as
               attested by his registration as a registered land surveyor by the state board of registration
               for professional engineers and land surveyors.
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               <span class="ital">Reserve</span> means to save for a particular use or a specific purpose, whether present or future.
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               <span class="ital">Retention</span> means surface collection, storage, and reduction of stormwater runoff for the purpose
               of providing infiltration of runoff into the soil.
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               <span class="ital">Storm drainage facilities</span> means the system of inlets, conduits, channels, ditches and appurtenances which serve
               to collect and convey stormwater through and from a given drainage area.
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               <span class="ital">Stormwater runoff</span> means the direct runoff of water resulting from precipitation in any form.
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               <span class="ital">Street</span> means a dedicated and accepted public right-of-way for vehicular traffic.
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               <span class="ital">Subdivider</span> means any person, firm, or corporation who subdivides or develops any land deemed
               to be a subdivision as herein defined.
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               <span class="ital">Subdivision administrator</span> means the official designated by the board of commissioners responsible for administrating
               the requirements of this chapter.
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               (Ord. of 10-20-2009, Â§ 502)
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