(11) BED & BREAKFAST/ INN. A single-family dwelling with a room or rooms, without individual cooking facilities, which is rented daily or weekly, and permitted to serve meals to guests. This term does not include a boarding house or lodging house.
(12) BEING CONDUCTED (Erosion & Sedimentation Control). The term defining a land disturbing activity has been initiated and permanent stabilization of the site has not been completed. (13) BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMP) (Flood Damage Prevention) (Watershed Protection). The term defining a structural or nonstructural management-based practice, used singularly or in combination, to reduce nonpoint source inputs to receiving waters in order to achieve water quality protection goals .
(14) BILLBOARD. See SIGN, OUTDOOR ADVERTISING.
(15) BICYCLE LANE (BL). The term defining a dedicated lane or wider travel lane for cycling within a moderate speed vehicular street, demarcated by striping or curbing.
(16) BLOCK. The term defining a unit of land aggregated by private lots, pedestrian ways, rear alleys and rear lanes bounded by streets or by a combination of streets, public or park land, railroad rights-of-way, exterior boundaries of a subdivision or corporate limit boundaries. Where blocks are unusually long or short, or of unusual shape, the block length shall be determined by address ranges.
(17) BLOCK FACE. The term defining the aggregate of all the building façades one (1) side of a block.
(18) BOARDING/ ROOMING HOUSE. An establishment where rooms are provided for lodging or feeding or both for non-transient persons for compensation for definite periods of times. Meals may or may not be provided but there is one (1) common kitchen facility. This term also includes homeless shelters and transient lodging. (19) BONA FIDE FARM. Agricultural land that is a single tract of property or an identifiable portion of a single tract that is actively engaged in the commercial production and activities relating or incidental to growing crops, horticultural land that is part of a horticultural unit that is actively engaged in the commercial production or growing of fruits or vegetables or nursery or floral products, ornamental and flowering plants; dairy, livestock, poultry; forest land that is part of a forest unit that is actively engaged in the commercial growing of trees; and all other forms of agriculture as defined in N.C. Gen. Stat. §106-581.1. For purposes of this definition the production of a nonfarm product that
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