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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 11-73
S
UBDIVISION
A
PPROVAL
See “Type 1 Subdivision Preliminary Plat Approval,” “Type 2 Subdivision Preliminary Plat Approval,” or
“Final Plat Approval.”
S
UBDIVISION
E
XCLUSION
A division of land excluded from the definition of “subdivision,” and thus from subdivision regulation
under this Ordinance - see Section
2.5.6.D.S
UBDIVISION
, R
ESIDENTIAL
A subdivision, or part of a subdivision, that creates lots as building sites for individual single-family
detached, duplex, bungalow court, pocket neighborhood, or manufactured home dwellings.
S
UBDIVISION
, T
YPE
1
See Sectio
n 2.5.6.A.2, Subdivisions Distinguished.S
UBDIVISION
, T
YPE
2
See Sectio
n 2.5.6.A.2, Subdivisions Distinguished.S
UBSTANTIAL
I
MPROVEMENT
For purposes of floodplain management, any combination of repairs, reconstruction, rehabilitation,
addition, or other improvement of a structure, taking place during any one-year period for which the
cost equals or exceeds 50 percent of the market value of the structure before the “start of construction”
of the improvement. The term includes structures which have incurred “substantial damage”, regardless
of the actual repair work performed. However, the term does not include either:
(a) any correction of existing violations of State or community health, sanitary or safety code
specifications which have been identified by the community code enforcement official and which are the
minimum necessary to assure safe living conditions; or,
(b) any alteration of a historic structure provided that the alteration will not preclude the structure’s
continued designated as a historic structure and the alteration is approved by a variance issued
pursuant to Section
2.5.16, Variance.S
UBSTANTIAL
P
ROGRESS
For the purposes of determining whether sufficient progress has been made on an approved plan, one
or more of the following construction activities toward the completion of a site or subdivision plan shall
occur:
1. Obtaining a grading permit and conducting grading activity on a continuous basis and not
discontinued for more than 30 days; or
2. Installation and approval of on-site infrastructure; or
3. Obtaining a building permit for the construction and approval of a building foundation.
“Substantial progress” for purposes of determining whether an approved plan is null and void is not
necessarily the same as “substantial expenditures” used for determining vested rights pursuant to
applicable law.
S
URFACE
W
ATERS
All waters of the state as defined in N.C.G.S. 143-212 except underground waters