City of Raleigh Draft 2030 Comprehensive Plan
Access management:
Regulatory control of access to streets, roads, and highways frompublic roads and private driveways. Controlsmay include restrictions on the placement of interchanges, restrictions on the type, number,and location of access to roadways, and use of physical controls such as signals, channelization,and medians.
Accessory dwelling unit:
A separate, completedwelling unit with its own entrance, kitchen,sleeping area, and full bathroom facilities, whichis an attached or detached extension to anexisting single-family structure.
Active Recreation:
Recreation requiringorganized play areas such as softball, baseball,football and soccer fields, tennis and basketballcourts and children’s play equipment.
Adaptive use:
The conversion of obsolete orhistoric buildings from their original or mostrecent use to a new use, for example, theconversion of former hospital or schoolbuildings to residential use, or the conversion of an historic single family home to office use.
Administrative approval:
An official andbinding decision delegated to government staff by elected or appointed public officials.
Age in place:
The ability to grow old in one’sown home, rather than moving to an assistedliving or nursing facility; often accomplished byretrofitting of the housing unit to enhancemobility and address obstructions and barriers.
Air rights:
The ownership or control of thevolume of three dimensional air space above apiece of land or existing building.
Alternative energy sources:
Energy derivedfrom sources that do not unsustainably depletenatural resources or harm the environment, suchas wind and solar generated energy.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA):
Afederal law intended to provide disabled peoplewith equitable living and working conditions. Itprohibits employers from discriminating againstqualified job applicants and workers who are orwho become disabled and also sets requirementsfor handicapped accessibility.
Ancillary retail:
The retail sales of variousproducts in a store or similar facility that islocated within and is secondary to a health carefacility, hotel, residential development, office orindustrial complex, for the purpose of servingresidents, employees, patrons and visitors.These uses can include pharmacies, gift shops,and food service establishments.
Annexation:
The incorporation of a land areainto a municipal corporation with a resultingchange in the corporate limits of thatmunicipality. This is the process by which citiesextend their municipal services, regulations,voting privileges, and taxing authority into newterritory. Annexation can be voluntary(petitioned) or involuntary (city-initiated).
Area median family income (AMI):
Acommonly used measure of regional income inwhich theincomeof a family is defined as thecombined pre-tax incomes of all residents overthe age of 18 during a single year period. Themedian is the number separating the higher half of all family incomes from the lower half.
Arterial:
Major roadways or highways designedto serve the greatest traffic volumes throughoutthe City and region. Principal arterials arecomprised of freeways, limited-accessexpressways, and other major roads that
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accommodate both local and regional traffic.
Secondary arterials are major roadways that donot function as controlled-access facilities butprovide access to adjacent land and serve todistribute traffic from principal arterials tothoroughfare and collector streets.
Arts/Entertainment District:
A designatedgeographic area where a high concentration of arts and cultural facilities serves as an anchor of attraction and is supplemented by restaurantsand retail uses.
Assisted housing:
Government provision of housing for senior and disabled citizens, lowcost housing in multi-unit complexes that areavailable to low income families, or rentalvouchers that allow very low-income families tochoose where they want to live.
Automobile dependency:
A result of transportation and land use patterns that do notprovide meaningful alternatives to privatevehicular travel, such as convenient and efficientprovisions for transit, pedestrian, or bicycletravel.
Auto-oriented businesses:
Businesses that offerservices for automobiles, such gas stations, autorepair, auto servicing, and auto sales. Also,business that are dependent on easy automobileaccess for success, like drive-through fast foodrestaurants.
Beltline:
The Interstate Highway loop aroundRaleigh, composed of I-40 and I-440.
Best management practices (BMP):
Methods,measures, practices, and maintenanceprocedures intended to prevent or reduce waterpollution.
Big box:
A large single-tenant, warehouse-likeretail building, typically with large parking lot,such as membership buying clubs and homeimprovement stores. When grouped together,they form a
power center
.
Biodiversity:
The variety of life and itsactivities that includes living things and thecommunities and ecosystems in which theyoccur, including genetic diversity within species,species diversity within a community, anddiversity in a full range of biologicalcommunities.
Bio-solids:
By-products of wastewater treatmentthat have been treated and stabilized to theextent that it is possible to beneficially re-usethem, also known as sewage sludge.
Blight:
Community deterioration that ischaracterized by obsolete, dilapidated, and/orabandoned buildings, unsanitary or unsafeconditions, and trash accumulation. Thestatutory definition of a “blighted area” can befound in the Urban Redevelopment Law,N.C.G.S. 160A-503.
Brownfield:
Abandoned, idled, or under usedindustrial and commercial sites where expansionor redevelopment is complicated by real orperceived environmental contamination. Theycan be in urban, suburban, or rural areas.
Buffer:
An area of land, which may includelandscaping, tree stands, berms, walls, fences,and building setbacks, that is located betweenland uses of different character or intensity, andis intended to mitigate potential negativeimpacts of the proximity and adjacency of suchdifferent uses.
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Building lot coverage (BLC):
The ratio of theground floor or footprint area of a building to thetotal lot area.
Building orientation:
The placement of abuilding within its surrounding context. If abuilding faces a street, it is said that the buildingorientation is toward the street. Buildingorientation sometimes refers to a building’splacement in respect to north, south east, andwest.
Bus rapid transit:
A variety of transportationsystems that, through improvements toinfrastructure, vehicles, and scheduling, usesbusesto provide a service that is of a greaterspeed, frequency, and/or dependability than anordinary bus line.
Business Improvement District:
A special taxassessment district in which property ownersagree to have additional charges placed on theirtax bills in order to fund services beyond thoseprovided by the local government. Theseservices can include extra maintenance,improved street lighting, beautification,promotional activities, and heightened security.
By-right:
A standing legal right, particularly touse property within the limits of the regulationsgoverning the use of such property, withouthaving to justify or gain permission for such use.
Capital Area Greenway:
The greenway systemfor the City of Raleigh. The greenway system isa network of public open spaces providing forriparian buffers, floodplain protection andwildlife habitat, as well as recreational trailswhich provide for outdoor activity such aswalking, jogging, hiking, bicycling, and naturestudy.
Capital Area Metropolitan PlanningOrganization (CAMPO):
The joint quasi-governmental unit that coordinates regionaltransportation planning for all of Wake County,and for portions of Granville, Franklin,Johnston, and Harnett Counties.
Capital Area Transit (CAT):
The City of Raleigh’s fixed-route bus and
demand-responsive
transit system.
Capital Improvement Program (CIP):
Ashort-range, five-year budget used to fundcapital projects and equipment purchases. TheCIP provides a planning schedule and identifiesoptions for financing costs. CIP programsinvolve such one-time expenses as facilityconstruction, as opposed to the operating budgetwhich funds routine and recurring expenses.
Car sharing:
A model of car rental in whichpeople pay a membership fee for the ability torent cars for short periods of time, often by thehour. Car sharing is helpful to those who onlyoccasionally require use a vehicle or who needaccess to a vehicle of a different type than theyuse on a day-to-day basis.
Center of Region Enterprise (CORE):
Amultijurisdictional planning initiative for theland area between the Raleigh-DurhamInternational Airport and the Research TrianglePark. Six local governments exercise land usecontrol and plan for infrastructure in this area,including Cary, Durham (city), Durham County,Morrisville, Raleigh, and Wake County. In orderto create a balanced, sustainable pattern of development in this area, these localgovernments, regional organizations, and privatesector leaders have developed a comprehensiveplan for the CORE area.
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