§ 22-10. Other definitions.
For the purpose of this chapter, certain words or terms used herein shall be defined as follows:
Block. A piece of land bounded on one (1) or more sides by streets or roads.
Board of commissioners. County Board of Commissioners of Rowan County, North Carolina.
Building setback line—front. A line establishing minimum allowable distance between the wall of the principal building and the street or road right-of-way line when measured perpendicularly from the right-of-way. Covered porches, decks, uncovered porches or landings, etc., but not including steps whether covered or not, shall be considered as part of the principal building and shall not project into the required yard.
Building setback line—side or rear. A line establishing minimum allowable distance between the wall of the principal building and the side or rear property lines. Covered porches, decks, uncovered porches or landings, etc., but not including steps whether covered or not, shall be considered as part of the principal building and shall not project into the required yard.
Cluster subdivision. A subdivision of land that the subdivider requests and is approved to subdivide an original tract into lots smaller than those specified in this chapter, provided that the land saved is reserved for permanent common use, usually in the form of open space.
County manager. County manager of Rowan County, North Carolina.
Crosswalk. A specially paved or marked path for pedestrians crossing a road.
Dedication. A gift, by the owner or a right to the use of land for a specified purpose or purposes. Because a transfer of property rights is entailed, dedication must be by written instrument.
Dry hydrant. An arrangement of pipe permanently connected to a water point source other than a piped, pressurized water supply system, that provides a ready means of water supply for firefighting purposes and that utilizes the drafting (suction) capability of fire department pumpers.
Easements. A grant by the property owner to the public, a corporation, or persons, of the right to use a specified portion of a tract or tracts of land for a specified purpose.
Family, immediate. For purposes of this chapter, immediate family shall be defined as an individual's grandparents, step-grandparents, parents, step-parents, sibling(s) (full, half, or step), children, step-children, grandchildren, and step-grandchildren, whether natural or legal.
Fire marshal. Fire Division Manager of the Rowan County Department of Emergency Services or his designee.
Flood insurance rate map (FIRM). An official map of a community, issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, on which both the special flood hazard areas and the risk premium zones applicable to the community are delineated.
Flood insurance study (FIS). An examination, evaluation, and determination of flood hazards, corresponding water surface elevations (if appropriate), flood hazard risk zones, and other flood data in a community issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The flood insurance study report includes flood insurance rate maps (FIRMs) and flood boundary and floodway maps (FBFMs), if published.
Improvements. Refers to all infrastructure or amenities required by this chapter including, but not limited to, all aspects of road construction, sidewalks, water lines, sewer lines, drainage facilities, utility lines, water point sources and other related matters associated with the development of undeveloped land into building sites.
Insurance services office (ISO). ISO is an independent organization that serves insurance companies, fire departments, insurance regulators and others by providing information about property and liability risk. ISO's statistical, actuarial, and underwriting information is a resource used by insurers, government regulators, other companies and organizations and the use of their standardized policy language is the foundation on which many insurers build their coverage programs.
Lot. A portion of a tract of land to be subdivided for the purposes of transfer of ownership or development or both.
Lot of record. A lot which is part of a subdivision, a plat of which has been recorded in office of the register of deeds of Rowan County, or a lot described by metes and bounds, the description of which has been so recorded prior to the adoption of this chapter.
Lot types:
Corner lot. A lot located at the intersection of two (2) or more roads. A lot abutting on a curved road or roads shall be considered a corner lot if straight lines drawn from the foremost point of the lot meet at an interior angle of less than one hundred thirty (130) degrees.
Double frontage lot. (i.e., through lot) Any lot having access by water and street right-of-way or by having access on two (2) street rights-of-way. This does not include corner lots.
Interior lot. A lot other than a corner lot with only one (1) frontage on a street.
Panhandle lot. A lot other than one having access on a cul-de-sac, which contains a narrow strip providing street access.
Reverse frontage lot. A through lot which is not accessible from one (1) of the parallel or nonintersecting street upon which it fronts.
Single-tier lot. A lot which backs upon a limited access highway, a railroad, a physical barrier, or another type of land use and to which access from the rear is usually prohibited.
Through lot. See "Double frontage lot."
Mobile water supply apparatus. A vehicle designed primarily for transporting (pickup, transporting, and delivering) water to fire emergency scenes to be applied by other vehicles or pumping equipment.
Multiconnection. Any water supply furnishing potable water to two (2) to fourteen (14) connections of residences or businesses, or any combination thereof, from one (1) well that is not owned and operated by a public entity.
Municipal type water system . A system having water pumps serving hydrants and designed to furnish, over and above domestic consumption, a minimum flow of two hundred fifty (250) gpm (946L/min) at twenty (20) psi (139 kPa) residual pressure for a two-hour duration
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Established in 1896, the NFPA serves as the world's leading advocate of fire prevention and is an authoritative source on public safety. NFPA's mission is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education. NFPA has developed three hundred (300) codes and standards that influence every building, process, service, design, and installation in the United States, as well as many of those used in other countries.
NFPA 22 Standards for Water Tanks for Private Fire Protection. This standard provides the minimum requirements for the design, construction, installation, and maintenance of tanks and accessory equipment that supply water for private fire protection, including the following: (1) Gravity tanks, suction tanks, pressure tanks, and embankment-supported coated fabric suction tanks; (2) towers; (3) foundations; (4) pipe connections and fittings; (5) valve enclosures; (6) tank filling; (7) protection against freezing; version 2007 or latest amendment thereof.
NFPA 1142 Standard on Water Supplies for Suburban and Rural Firefighting. This standard identifies a method of determining the minimum requirements for alternative water supplies for structural firefighting purposes in areas where the authority having jurisdiction determines that adequate and reliable water supply systems for firefighting purposes do not otherwise exist; version 2007 or latest amendment thereof.
Observed right-of-way. The area recognized in the Cabarrus-Rowan Metropolitan Planning Organization (CRMPO) 2002-2030 Long Range Transportation Plan and referenced in Appendix A that may be utilized for future transportation improvements.
Official maps or plans. Any maps or plans officially adopted by the board of commissioners of Rowan County.
Open space. An area of land and/or water generally lacking in manmade structures and reserved for enjoyment in its unaltered state.
Package treatment plant. A self-contained sewage treatment facility built to serve the subdivision.
Plan, site specific development means a plan meeting the requirements of G.S. 153A-344.1, as amended, for approval of a vesting right under that statute.
Planning board. County planning board of Rowan County, North Carolina.
Planning department. The planning division of the Rowan County Planning and Development Department.
Planned unit developments (PUD). An area planned as a single entity containing one (1) or more residential, commercial or mixed use clusters that is subdivided into lots that do not meet the requirements of this chapter. In a PUD the subdivider request an increase in density of property development for additional project amenities and relaxed public improvement standards in return for better subdivision design or for more affordable housing opportunities.
Plat. A map or plan of a parcel of land which is to be or has been subdivided showing such subdivision.
Private road. A dedicated right-of-way or ingress and egress easement to the public, forty-five (45) feet or greater in width containing a roadway which provides or is used primarily for vehicular circulation and is available for use by the general public or by residents of the development but is not maintained by NCDOT or any municipality in Rowan County.
Private individual sewage disposal system. A sewage disposal system serving one (1) connection which is usually owned and controlled by a private single entity.
Private individual water supply system. A water supply system having one (1) service connection whose water supply comes from a single source, usually limited to a well or spring.
Public road. A dedicated road right-of-way meeting all minimum construction standards of NCDOT or is maintained by the NCDOT road maintenance program and available for use by the general public.
Public or private sewer system. A means of collecting, transporting and treatment of sewage by a public entity (e.g., city, town, county, sewer district), or other public body created, pursuant to state, federal and local laws, or any combination thereof acting cooperatively or jointly, or a privately owned state licensed sewer system, for profit or non-profit firm or corporation. A package treatment plant shall be considered part of a public sewer system if owned by a city, town, county, sewer district, etc., otherwise shall be considered as a private sewer system.
Public or private water system. The provision to the public of piped water by a system with fifteen (15) or more connections or twenty-five (25) or more year round residents owned and operated by a municipality, county or other public entity or a privately owned licensed water supply, for profit or non-profit firm or corporation. This includes the term "community water supply system."
Public Protection Classification (PPC) Program. Developed and implemented by ISO, this program helps insurance companies measure and evaluate the effectiveness of fire-mitigation services throughout the country. The program rates a fire department on a scale of 1—10, with "1" being the best and "10" not meeting the minimum criteria for rating. To determine the fire department's class rating ISO evaluators utilize the manual called the fire suppression rating schedule.
Recreation area or park. An area of land or combination of land and water resources that is developed for active and/or passive recreation pursuits with various manmade features that accommodates such activities.
Right-of-way. The base setback line that is the greater of either the line dividing the public right-of-way currently or a line thirty (30) feet measured in a perpendicular distance and parallel to the centerline of the street pavement, superseded by the observed right-of-way or the area recognized in the Cabarrus-Rowan Metropolitan (CRMPO) 2002-2030 Long Range Transportation Plan and referenced in Appendix A that may be utilized for future transportation improvements.
Road. A dedicated public right-of-way for vehicular traffic (or a private road when permitted by this chapter). The word "road" includes, but is not limited to, "street, freeway, highway, expressway, drive, avenue, court, way, place, circle, lane, boulevard, and thoroughfare."
Classifications of roads:
Principle arterial. A rural link in a highway system serving travel, and having characteristics indicative of, substantial statewide or interstate travel and existing solely to serve traffic. This highway system would consist of interstate routes and other routes designed as principal arterials.
Local road. A local road serves primarily to provide access to adjacent land and for travel over relatively short distance.
Major collector. A road which serves major intracounty travel corridors and traffic generators and provides access to the arterial system.
Major thoroughfares. Major thoroughfares consist of interstate, other freeway, expressway, or parkway roads, and major streets that provide for the expeditious movement of high volumes of traffic within and through urban areas.
Minor arterial. A rural roadway joining cities and larger towns and providing intrastate and inner-county service at relatively high overall travel speeds with minimum interference to through movement.
Minor collector. A road which serves small local communities and links locally important traffic generators with their rural hinterland.
Minor thoroughfares. Minor thoroughfares perform the function of collecting traffic from local access streets and carrying it to the major thoroughfare system. Minor thoroughfares may be used to supplement the major thoroughfare system by facilitating minor through-traffic movements and may also serve abutting property.
Service road. A road that runs parallel to a principal arterial or interstate and provides indirect access to and from properties or facilities abutting the interstate principle arterial via an interchange.
Specific type roads:
Alley. A strip of land, owned publicly or privately, set aside primarily for vehicular service access to the back or side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
Cul-de-sac. A short street having but one end open to traffic and the other end being permanently terminated and a vehicular turnaround provided.
Freeways, expressway or parkway. Divided multilane roadways designed to carry large volumes of traffic at relatively high speeds. A freeway is a divided highway providing for continuous flow of vehicles with no direct access to abutting property or streets and with access to selected crossroads provided via connecting ramps. An expressway is a divided highway with full or partial control of access and with grade separations at major intersection. A parkway is a highway for noncommercial traffic, with full or partial control of access, and usually located within a park or a ribbon of park development.
Frontage road. A local street or road that is parallel to a full or partial access controlled facility and functions to provide access to adjacent land.
Local residential road. Cul-de-sacs, loop streets less than two thousand five hundred (2,500) feet in length, or streets less than one (1) mile in length that do not connect thoroughfares, or serve major traffic generators, and do not collect traffic for more than one hundred (100) dwellings units.
Residential collector road. A local access street which serves as a connector street between local residential streets and the thoroughfare system. Residential collector streets typically collect traffic from one hundred (100) to four hundred (400) dwelling units.
Road mile. Linear distance of vehicular travel as measured along a road from any given location to another location.
Sanitary sewage system. A complete system of sewage collection, treatment and disposal including privies, septic tank systems, connection to public or community sewage system, sewage reuse or recycle systems, mechanical or biological treatment system, or other such systems.
Sewage. The waste water and its contents from kitchen, bathroom, toilet, lavatory and laundry of any residence, business establishment, industrial plant, institution, or any public building.
Special flood hazard area (SFHA). The land in the floodplain subject to a one (1) percent or greater chance of being flooded in any given year, as determined in section 9-7 of the flood damage prevention ordinance [chapter 9 of this Code].
Subdivider. Any person, firm or corporation who subdivides or develops any land judged to be a subdivision as herein defined.
Subdivision. See section 22-6 of this chapter.
Subdivision, major. See section 22-8 of this chapter.
Subdivision, minor. See section 22-7 of this chapter.
Subdivision review committee. An advisory committee to the county board of commissioners to review all major subdivision preliminary and final plats and to make recommendations to the subdivision administrator for the board of commissioners to approve, approve with conditions or disapprove. The committee shall consist of one (1) or more representatives from the following agencies or officials:
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County health department.
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County environmental management, soil sedimentation control staff.
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County planning department.
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State department of transportation, division 9, district 1, office.
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County emergency services, fire division.
Suction points. Any given point or location on a water point source at which fire department pumping apparatus is able to acquire, through drafting operations, water from that source for use in suppressing a fire. This term may also include generic terms such as dry hydrant, float dock, etc.
Tract. A piece of property upon which a subdivision is proposed.
Utility lot. A lot that serves unmanned utility facilities such as pump/lift stations, wireless facilities and support structures and septic tank drain fields. A utility lot is not to be used as parking, vehicle storage or accommodation for residential or commercial structures.
Water point source (WPS). An adequate and reliable water delivery system used for fire protection that is available three hundred sixty-five (365) days a year and has the ability to provide two hundred fifty (250) gallons per minute (gpm) for a two-hour duration. For purposes of this definition, a WPS may include, but not be limited, to facilities such as a pond, cistern, underground or aboveground storage tanks, etc.
(Amend. of 7-16-07(2); Amend. of 6-16-08; Amend. of 11-2-09; Amend. of 4-21-14; Amend. of 9-6-16; Amend. of 2-6-17)