Morrisville Unified Development Ordinance - June 2017

Article 11: Interpretation and Definitions Section 11.5. Terms and Uses Defined 11.4.2. Exceptions and Variations

C OUNTRY C LUB A chartered, nonprofit membership club catering primarily to its members, providing but not limited to one or more of the following recreational and social activities: golf, swimming, riding, outdoor recreation, club house, locker room, and pro shop.

C OUNTY Wake County or Durham County, North Carolina.

C REMATORIUM A location containing properly installed, certified apparatus intended for the use in the act of cremation.

C RITICAL R OOT Z ONE The area circling the trunk of a tree within a radius equal to 1.5 feet for each inch of trunk diameter (DBH), measured outward from the root flare at ground level.

C ROSS A CCESS Vehicular access provided between the vehicular use areas of two or more adjacent development sites or parcels that is intended to allow travel between the sites without the use of a street. C ROSSWALK A public pedestrian right-of-way, which cuts across a block to facilitate pedestrian access to adjacent streets and properties. C UL - DE -S AC A short street designed to have one end permanently closed; the closed end terminated by a vehicular turnaround. C ULTURAL F ACILITY A public or private nonprofit facility that provides services to the public—including, but not limited to, museums, performing arts facilities, and libraries.

C UTOFF F IXTURE A fixture light distribution where no more than 2.5 percent of a lamp’s light intensity is emitted at or above a horizontal plane drawn through the bottom of the fixture and no more than ten percent of the lamp’s light intensity is emitted at or above an angle ten degrees below that cutoff horizontal plane, at all lateral angles around the fixture.

C YCLE L ENGTH The time required for a complete sequence of traffic signal indications.

Morrisville, NC

June 23, 2017

Unified Development Ordinance

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