Land Development Ordinance - Amended 4-7-2025

(70) FUTURE CONDITIONS FLOOD ELEVATION (Flood Damage Prevention). The term defining a determination of the water surface elevations of the one percent (1%) annual chance flood based on future conditions hydrology as published in the Flood Insurance Study. This elevation, when combined with the freeboard, establishes the Regulatory Flood Protection Elevation in Future Conditions Flood Hazard Areas. (71) FUTURE CONDITIONS FLOOD HAZARD AREA (Flood Damage Prevention). The term defining the land area that would be inundated by the one percent (1%) annual chance flood based on future conditions hydrology as determined in Article I Environment Protection Standards, §9-1401, f. General Provisions (2) of the Land Development Ordinance. (72) FUTURE CONDITIONS HYDROLOGY (Flood Damage Prevention). The term defining the flood discharges associated with the projected land-use conditions based on Wake County’s June 2003 Countywide Equivalent Zoning Classification data and without consideration of projected future construction of flood detention structures or projected future hydraulic modifications within a stream or other waterway such as a bridge and culvert construction, fill, and excavation. Future conditions flood discharges are published in the Flood Insurance Study. g. (1) GABLE. The term defining the triangular portion of wall enclosing the end of a pitched roof from cornice or eaves to ridge.

(2) GABLE ROOF. The term defining a roof sloping downward in two (2) parts from a central ridge, so as to form a gable at each end.

Figure – Open & Box Gable Roofs

(3) GALLERY. The term defining a private frontage conventional for retail use wherein the façade is aligned close to the frontage line with an attached cantilevered shed or lightweight colonnade overlapping the sidewalk.

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