Definitions 17.4 Definitions Generally*
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customary manner, of any navigable lake, or river, bay, stream, canal, or basin. QUASI-JUDICIAL DECISION A decision that involves the findings of facts regarding a specific application of an ordinance and the exercise of discretion when applying the standards of the ordinance. RADOME A housing that contains one or more antennas made from a material that is transparent to radio waves. A radome is expressly not an antenna. RECREATIONAL VEHICLE (RV) (FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT) A vehicle, which is: • Built on a single chassis; • 400 square feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal projection;
located within Special Flood Hazard Areas and Future Conditions Flood Hazard Areas must be protected. • In “Special Flood Hazard Areas” where Base Flood Elevations (BFEs) have been determined, this elevation shall be the BFE plus 2 feet of freeboard.
In “Special Flood Hazard Areas” where no BFE has been established, this elevation shall be at least 2 feet above the highest adjacent grade. In Future Conditions Flood Hazard Areas this elevation shall be the Future Conditions Flood Elevation plus 2 feet of freeboard.
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REMEDY A VIOLATION (FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT) To bring the structure or other development into compliance with State and community floodplain management regulations, or, if this is not possible, to reduce the impacts of its noncompliance. Ways that impacts may be reduced include protecting the structure or other affected development from flood damages, implementing the enforcement provisions of the ordinance or otherwise deterring future similar violations, or reducing Federal financial exposure with regard to the structure or other development REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE (WTF) The replacement or repair of any components of a wireless Facility or Complex where the replacement is identical to the component being replaced, or for any matters that involve the normal repair and maintenance of a wireless Facility or Complex without the addition, removal or change of any of the physical or visually discernible components or aspects of a wireless Facility or Complex that will impose new visible burdens of the Facility or Complex as originally permitted. RIGHT-OF-WAY An area of land not on a lot that is dedicated or taken for public or private use to accommodate a transportation system. It may incorporate the roadway, curbs, gutters, lawn strips, sidewalks, and lighting, and may include special features (required by the topography or treatment) such as grade separation, bridges, or other transportation infrastructure. RIGHT-OF-WAY, ASSUMED Where no right-of- way exists or if the right-of-way is only inclusive
Designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable by a light duty truck; and Designed primarily not for use as a permanent dwelling, but as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel, or seasonal use.
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REDEVELOPMENT Any rebuilding activity other than a rebuilding activity that results in no net increase in built- upon area and provides equal or greater stormwater control than the previous development. REFERENCE LEVEL (FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT) The top of the lowest floor for structures within Special Flood Hazard Areas and Future Conditions Flood Hazard Areas designated as Zone AE, A, A99 or X (Future). REGIONAL STORMWATER CONTROL MEASURES The overall design, construction and maintenance of measures and devices and associated drainage easements, conduits, inlets, channels, pipes, ditches, filters, buffers, bioretention areas and ponds that are necessary to collect, convey, store and control stormwater runoff and pollutants within or outside a development and for one or more developments, as shown on the stormwater control master plans approved by the State of North Carolina and the Town of Wake Forest. REGULATORY FLOOD PROTECTION ELEVATION (FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT) The elevation above mean sea level to which the reference level of all structures and other development
Town of Wake Forest Unified Development Ordinance – July 19, 2022
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