Land Development Ordinance - Amended 4-7-2025

(20) SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESS. Any place also defined as an “adult establishment” by N.C. Gen. Stat. §14 -202.10, and as such statute may be amended from time to time, including adult cabarets, domination parlors, and other similar commercial establishments which offer services, places featuring topless dancers, go-go dancers, strippers, male or female impersonators, or entertainers displaying specified anatomical areas, or other similar entertainers, magazines, and items which utilize sexually oriented paraphernalia; except the definition of massage business shall not include any establishment or business where massage is practiced that is a health club, exercise studio, hospital, physical therapy business, or other similar health-related business by a massage therapist licensed in the State of North Carolina. Sexually oriented business specifically includes any massage business/establishment where massages are rendered by any person exhibiting “specified anatomical areas” and/or where “massages” are performed by any person who is not a licensed massage therapist. “Specified anatomical areas” are those defined by N.C. Gen. Stat. §14 -202.10 as such statute may be amended from time to time. (21) SHARED PARKING. The term defining the approved use of the same off-street parking spaces for two (2) or more distinguishable uses where peak parking demands of the different uses occurs at different times of the day, night or weekend, or where various uses are visited without moving the automobile; and, where the division of parking spaces is a net decrease from the combined total of each uses’ individual off -street parking requirements. (22) SHOOTING RANGE, INDOOR. The use of a structure for the safe discharge of archery and/or the discharging of firearms for the purpose of target practice, temporary competition, or military or law enforcement training. No alcoholic beverages sold and consumed on premises shall be permitted. (23) SHOOTING RANGE, OUTDOOR. The use of land for archery and/or the discharging of firearms for the purpose of target practice, skeet and trap shooting, or temporary competitions such as turkey shoots. This term does not include general hunting and unstructured and non-reoccurring discharging of firearms on private property with the property owner's permission.

(24) SHOPFRONT. The term defining a private building frontage with parking spaces that is available to more than one (1) use with the building entrance(s) at sidewalk grade.

(25) SHOPPING CENTER. A building or group of buildings, which contains at least four (4) retail establishments, either connected or free-standing, and under unified or multiple ownership of land parcels, that is designed and has been approved by the Town as a

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