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supervising adults; and who are not residents in the center; designed and approved to accommodate more than 8 children or adults at a time based on State regulations; not an accessory to residential use. CHILD/ADULT DAY CARE HOME (8 OR FEWER PERSONS) Supervision or care provided on a regular basis as an accessory use within a principal residential dwelling unit, by a resident of the dwelling, for no more than 8 children (no more than 5 of which may be of pre-school age) or for no more than 8 adults. The children or adults cared for do not live in the home or reside there overnight. CIVIC MEETING FACILITIES Not-for-profit membership organizations such as alumni associations, booster clubs, scouting organizations, ethnic associations, social clubs, fraternal lodge, and veterans' membership organizations primarily engaged in promoting the civic and social interests of their members. The uses often include meeting and storage facilities. COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY Junior colleges, colleges, universities, and professional schools with physical structures (excluding online and remote programs). These establishments furnish academic or technical courses and grant degrees, certificates, or diplomas at the associate, baccalaureate, or graduate levels in a campus setting in more than one building. COMMUNITY/CULTURAL CENTER Facilities designed to promote cultural advancement and serve the community such as occasional live theater, dance, or music establishments; art galleries, studios, and museums; non-profit civic or fraternal organizations; museums, exhibition, or similar facility; and libraries. COMMUNITY SUPPORT FACILITY A permanent, stand-alone support facility providing personal assistance to individuals in need; such assistance to individuals may include temporary shelter, food services provisions, counseling, instruction, medical services, and other incidental services. This definition does not include emergency/hazard Shelters or clothing/food collection centers as accessory uses. CONFERENCE/CONVENTION FACILITY A commercial facility for public assembly including, but not limited to auditoriums,
conference facilities, convention centers, exhibition halls, and the like. CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION Government establishments generally designed for the confinement, correction, and rehabilitation of offenders sentenced by a court. DORMITORY A building used as group living quarters for a student body or religious order as an accessory use for a college, university, boarding school, convent, monastery or other similar public, semi-public use. DRIVE-THRU/DRIVE-IN FACILITY A primary or accessory facility where goods or services may be obtained by motorists without leaving their vehicles. These facilities include drive-through bank teller windows, dry cleaners, fast-food restaurants, drive-through coffee, photo stores, pharmacies, etc. Does not include: Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), gas stations or other vehicle services, which are separately defined. DRY CLEANING & LAUNDRY SERVICES Coin- operated laundries, dry cleaning pick-up stores without dry cleaning equipment, or dry cleaning stores that do not provide cleaning services to other collection stations or stores. DWELLING Any building that contains one or more dwelling units used, intended, or designed to be built, used, rented, leased, let, or hired out to be occupied, or that are occupied for living purposes. DWELLING-ACCESSORY A dwelling unit either detached or attached, such as a garage apartment or cottage, located on a lot with an existing single-family dwelling. DWELLING-DUPLEX A single detached dwelling on a single lot that contains two dwelling units and is divided vertically, and each unit has a separate entrance from the outside or through a common vestibule. DWELLING-MULTIFAMILY A building or a group of buildings, including a portion thereof, containing 3 or more dwelling units on a single lot where each unit has a separate entrance from the outside or through a common vestibule. The dwelling units may be located side by side in a horizontal configuration or stacked one above the other in a vertical configuration, sharing common vertical walls or horizontal floors and ceilings. Each dwelling unit
Town of Wake Forest Unified Development Ordinance – July 19, 2022
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