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Article 11: Interpretation and Definitions
Section 11.5. Terms and Uses Defined
11.4.2. Exceptions and Variations
Morrisville, NC
June 23, 2017
Unified Development Ordinance
Page 11-29
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.