Title 1 — Administration, Chapter 110 — Definitions.

The following rules set forth the order of precedence that determines which definition applies in a specific instance within the provisions of this UDO:

those definitions are to be applied within said chapter or section. If the same term or phrase is also defined in this section, the definition in this section shall not apply in that instance.

UDO, words and phrases used in this Ordinance shall have the meaning established by the definitions provided in Section 110-40, General Definitions or Section 110-50, Definitions by Category.

Pollution Control, Floodplain Management, and Stormwater Management they are listed in Section 110-50, Definitions by Category below.

defined in the most recent edition of Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Words not defined herein or in the above-referenced book shall be construed to have the meaning given by common and ordinary use, and shall be interpreted within the context of the sentence, section and article in which they occur.

definitions is necessary, the Community Development Director shall resolve the conflict and interpret the definition. The action of the Community Development Director shall be recorded.

As used in this UDO, the following abbreviations represent the terms set forth below.

ARC: Atlanta Regional Commission BMP: Best Management Practice CLOMA: Conditional Letter of Map Amendment CLOMR: Conditional Letter of Map Revision CPESC: Certified Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control dBA: A-weighted sound level (Ord. 25-06, 9/9/25)

DBH: Diameter at Breast Height DRI: Development of Regional Impact EPA: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPD: Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Environmental Protection Division.

EV: Electric Vehicle FAA: The Federal Aviation Administration FCC: The Federal Communications Commission FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency FIS: Flood Insurance Study FIRM: Flood Insurance Rate Map GDOT: Georgia Department of Transportation GRTA: Georgia Regional Transportation Authority HLP: House Location Plan ICC: International Code Council LEED: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, as administered by the Green Building Certification Institute LOMA: Letter of Map Amendment LOMR: Letter of Map Revision MPH: Miles per Hour NAICS: North American Industry Classification System NOI: Notice of Intent NOT: Notice of Termination NOV: Notice of Violation NPDES: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System NTU: Nephelometric Turbidity Units NWGRC: Northwest Georgia Regional Commission O.C.G.A.: The Official Code of Georgia Annotated PCDOT: Paulding County Department of Transportation Sf: Square feet UDO: Unified Development Ordinance of Paulding County, Georgia

In order to bring flexibility, clarity and breadth to the Paulding County UDO, an effort has been made to align the definitions and uses listed in the Base and Overlay Districts of this UDO with similar terms from the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). References to the NAICS codes shall mean those codes assigned to businesses in the 2022 NAICS manual published by the United States Office of Management and Budget. NAICS codes are provided for reference purposes in parentheses following certain definitions for uses that employ the NAICS system as an aid in interpretation and determination of those specific uses included in general class of uses. The full NAICS listing can be found at https://www.census.gov/naics/. The uses listed here in reference to NAICS classification are not exhaustive, exclusive, or final, but are referenced only for guidance and clarity.

For the purpose of this Unified Development Ordinance, the following definitions shall apply, except where otherwise provided in Section 110-20.

Accessory Retail Sales and Services: Retail sales and services accessory to the operation of an office building or institutional use, certain limited industrial and e-Commerce uses, motel, hotel, apartment development, conducted wholly within the building housing the use to which such activities are accessory, provided that the floor space used or to be used for such secondary uses shall be limited to a total of 25 square feet per dwelling unit in an apartment development or 25 square feet per room in a hotel or motel, or 10% of the net floor area in an office building or institutional use, and provided that:

However, the requirements of (1) and (2) above shall not apply to restaurants and cafeterias secondary to a hotel or motel and office building or institutional use; these secondary uses may be located in a structure other than the primary use structure. The following secondary uses are permitted: barbershops, beauty shops, laundry and drycleaning pickup and distribution stations and other similar personal service establishments; drugstores; bookstores; florists; convenience food stores; gift shops; cafeterias and restaurants; private clubs; laundry facilities for the convenience of residents; newsstands. However, the total net floor space for such secondary building or structure uses shall be limited to 6,000 square feet.

Accessory Structures and Uses: A structure detached from a principal building on the same lot and customarily incidental to the principal building or use including but not limited to detached garages, carports and utility buildings, sheds, gazebos, or barns. (Ord. 25-04, 05/13/25)

Adult Day Care (ADC): The provision of a comprehensive plan of services that meets the needs of aging adults as defined in paragraph (g) of these definitions under a social model, as defined in paragraph (ll) of these definitions. This term shall not include programs which provide day habilitation and treatment services exclusively for individuals with developmental disabilities.

Adult Day Care (ADC): The provision of a comprehensive plan of services that meets the needs of aging adults as defined in paragraph (g) of the Rules of Department of Community Health Chapter 111-8 Healthcare Facility Regulation 111-8-1 Rules and Regulations for Adult Day Centers Section 111-8-1-.04 under a social model, as defined in paragraph (ll) of the Rules of Department of Community Health Chapter 111-8 Healthcare Facility Regulation 111-8-1 Rules and Regulations for Adult Day Centers Section 111-8-1-.04. This term shall not include programs which provide day habilitation and treatment services exclusively for individuals with developmental disabilities.

Adult Day Health Services (ADHS): The provision of a comprehensive plan of services that meets the needs of aging adults under a medical model as defined in Chapter 111-8-1 of Rules and Regulations for Adult Day Centers. This term shall not include programs which provide day habilitation and treatment services exclusively for individuals with developmental disabilities.

Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing (33641): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing complete aircraft, missiles, or space vehicles; (2) manufacturing aerospace engines, propulsion units, auxiliary equipment or parts; (3) developing and making prototypes of aerospace products; (4) aircraft conversion (i.e., major modifications to systems); and (5) complete aircraft or propulsion systems overhaul and rebuilding (i.e., periodic restoration of aircraft to original design specifications).

Agriculture: Land shall be considered used for agriculture if the raising of crops or animals is a principal use of the property.

Airport Operations (48811): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) operating international, national, or civil airports or public flying fields or (2) supporting airport operations (except special food services contractors), such as rental of hangar space, air traffic control services, baggage handling services, and cargo handling services.

Alcoholic Beverage: means and includes all alcohol, distilled spirits, beer, malt beverage, wine or fortified wine.

Alignment: The arrangement of objects along a straight line.

Ambulance Service (621910): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing transportation of patients by ground or air, along with medical care. These services are often provided during a medical emergency but are not restricted to emergencies. The vehicles are equipped with lifesaving equipment operated by medically trained personnel Ambulatory Health Care Services (621): Industries in the Ambulatory Health Care Services subsector provide health care services directly or indirectly to ambulatory patients and do not usually provide inpatient services. Health practitioners in this subsector provide outpatient services, with the facilities and equipment not usually being the most significant part of the production process.

Amenity: Any and all structures, including recreational facilities, located within a community which are designed and intended for the common use and enjoyment of all residents.

Amusement and Recreation Industries, Other (713990): This industry comprises establishments (except amusement parks and arcades; gambling industries; golf courses and country clubs; skiing facilities; marinas; fitness and recreational sports centers; and bowling centers) primarily engaged in providing recreational and amusement services.

Amusement and Theme Parks (713110): This industry comprises establishments, known as amusement or theme parks, primarily engaged in operating a variety of attractions, such as mechanical rides, water rides, games, shows, theme exhibits, refreshment stands, and picnic grounds. These establishments may lease space to others on a concession basis.

Animal Production and Aquaculture (112): Industries in the Animal Production and Aquaculture subsector raise or fatten animals for the sale of animals or animal products and/or raise aquatic plants and animals in controlled or selected aquatic environments for the sale of aquatic plants, animals, or their products. The subsector includes establishments, such as ranches, farms, and feedlots, primarily engaged in keeping, grazing, breeding, or feeding animals. These animals are kept for the products they produce or for eventual sale. The animals are generally raised in various environments, from total confinement or captivity to feeding on an open range pasture.

Animal Shows: Exhibitions of domestic or large animals for a maximum of seven days.

Apartment: A room or suite of two or more rooms occupied or suitable for occupancy as a dwelling unit for one family in a multiple dwelling or any other building not a single-family dwelling or two-family dwellings.

Apartment Building: A building designed for or occupied exclusively by three or more families with separate housekeeping facilities for each family.

Apparel Manufacturing (315): Industries in the Apparel Manufacturing subsector group establishments with two distinct manufacturing processes: (1) cut and sew (i.e., purchasing fabric and cutting and sewing to make a garment) and (2) the manufacture of garments in establishments that first knit fabric and then cut and sew the fabric into a garment. The Apparel Manufacturing subsector includes a diverse range of establishments manufacturing full lines of ready-to-wear apparel and custom apparel: apparel contractors, performing cutting or sewing operations on materials owned by others; jobbers, performing entrepreneurial functions involved in apparel manufacturing; and tailors, manufacturing custom garments for individual clients.

Knitting fabric, when done alone, is classified in the Textile Mills subsector, but when knitting is combined with the production of complete garments, the activity is classified in the Apparel Manufacturing subsector.

Appliance Repair and Maintenance: This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in repairing and servicing household appliances without retailing new appliances, such as refrigerators, stoves, washing machines, clothes dryers, and room air-conditioners.

Architectural Style: Showing the influence of shapes, materials, detailing or other features associated with a particular architectural style.

Art Dealers (459920): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing original and limited edition art works. Included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in displaying works of art for retail sale in art galleries.

Ashlar: A dressed or squared stone and the masonry built of such hewn stone. It may be coursed, with continuous horizontal joints or random, with discontinuous joints.

Asphalt Paving, Roofing, and Saturated Materials Manufacturing (32412): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing asphalt and tar paving mixtures and blocks and roofing cements and coatings from purchased asphaltic materials and/or (2) saturating purchased mats and felts with asphalt or tar from purchased asphaltic materials.

Automotive Body, Paint, and Interior Repair and Maintenance (811121): This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in repairing or customizing automotive vehicles, such as passenger cars, trucks, and vans, and all trailer bodies and interiors; and/or painting automotive vehicles and trailer bodies.

Automotive Equipment Rental and Leasing (5321): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in renting or leasing passenger cars and trucks without drivers and utility trailers. These establishments generally operate from a retail-like facility. Some establishments offer only short-term rental, others only longer-term leases, and some provide both types of services.

Automotive Parts, Accessories and Tire Retailers (4413): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing new, used, and/or rebuilt automotive parts and accessories, with or without repairing automobiles; and/or establishments primarily engaged in retailing and installing automotive accessories. (Ord. 24-02, 02/13/24)

Auto Brokers Office: An establishment wherein an individual or individuals are engaged primarily in acting as agents and/or brokers in selling or buying motor vehicles.

A-weighted sound level (dBA): The sound pressure level in decibels as measured on a sound level meter using the A-weighted network. The level so read is designated "dBA." (Ord. 25-06, 9/9/25)

Backyard Chickens: The keeping of a female pullet or hen of the Gallus gallus domesticus (roosters prohibited) which may be raised for the purpose of providing food or companionship as a pet.

Bar: Shall be an establishment that does not meet the definition of a restaurant, nightclub, lounge, farm winery, micro-brewery, tasting room or hotel, and serves alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises. The establishment derives 50% or more total annual gross revenue from the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises, or pursuant to State law.

A licensee of a bar shall obtain and keep in force and affect a food service permit.

Basal area: The average amount of an area (usually an acre) occupied by tree stems. It is defined as the total cross-sectional area of all stems in a stand measured at breast height, and expressed as per unit of land area (typically square feet per acre). (Ord. 22-14, 12/13/22)

Basic Chemical Manufacturing (3251): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing chemicals using basic processes, such as thermal cracking and distillation. Chemicals manufactured in this industry group are usually separate chemical elements or separate chemically-defined compounds.

Battery Manufacturing (335910): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing primary and storage batteries. (Ord. 25-06, 9/9/25)

Bay: One unit of a building that consists of a series of similar units; commonly defined as the number of vertical divisions within a building façade.

Beer, Wine and Distilled Spirits Retailers (445320): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing packaged alcoholic beverages, such as ale, beer, wine and distilled spirits. (Ord. 23-04, 3/14/23)

Beverage Manufacturing (3121): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing soft drinks and ice; purifying and bottling water; and manufacturing brewery, winery, and distillery products.

Biohazards: Any biological or chemical substance that is dangerous to humans, animals, or the environment. This can include body fluids, human tissue and blood, and recombinant DNA.

Board of Commissioners: The Board of Commissioners of Paulding County, Georgia.

Boarding Services, Pet (812910): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing pet care services (except veterinary), such as boarding, grooming, sitting, and training pets.

Boat Building (336612): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in building boats. Boats are defined as watercraft not built in shipyards and typically of the type suitable or intended for personal use. Included in this industry are establishments that manufacture heavy-duty inflatable rubber or inflatable plastic boats (RIBs).

Botanical Gardens (712130): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the preservation and exhibition of live plant and animal life displays.

Bowling Centers (713950): This industry comprises establishments engaged in operating bowling centers. These establishments often provide food and beverage services.

Breeder: A person who offers for sale litters of animals. A household which sells two litters during a 12-month period, even if the litters are produced from different animals, will not be considered a hobby breeder and will be subject to the registration procedures applicable to animal establishments and breeders as designated in Paulding Code Chapter 14, Article II.

Breweries: A premises where beer and malt beverage are manufactured.

Buffer: A barrier which is created by the use of evergreen trees or other acceptable plant or vegetative material alone or in combination with berms, fencing, or walls used to physically separate or screen one use or property from another so as to visually shield or block noise, lights, or dissimilar uses.

Buffer, Natural/Undisturbed: An existing natural barrier, which contains a stand of evergreen trees or other acceptable vegetative material with a density or intensity, which in the opinion of the Planning staff meets the intent of the definition of buffer.

Buffer, Planted/Landscaped: A planted natural barrier which contains a stand of evergreen trees or other acceptable vegetative material with a density or intensity which meets the intent of the definition of buffer.

Buffer Area: An area set aside to give additional setback from adjacent structures or types of land use.

Building: Any structure designed or built for the support, enclosure, shelter, or protection of persons, animals or personal property of any kind.

Building Height: The vertical distance to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs; to the deck line for mansard roofs; and to the average height between eaves and the ridge of the gable, hip, and gambrel roofs, measured from the curb level if the building is not more than ten feet from the front lot line or from the grade in all other cases.

Building Material and Garden Equipment and Supplies Dealer (444): Industries in the Building Material and Garden Equipment and Supplies Dealers subsector retail new building material and garden equipment and supplies from fixed point-of-sale locations. Establishments in this subsector have display equipment designed to handle lumber and related products and garden equipment and supplies that may be kept either indoors or outdoors under covered areas. The staff is usually knowledgeable in the use of the specific products being retailed in the construction, repair, and maintenance of the home and associated grounds.

Business Schools and Computer and Management Training (6114): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in one of the following: (1) offering courses in office procedures and secretarial and stenographic skills and may offer courses in basic office skills, such as word processing; (2) conducting computer training (except computer repair); or (3) offering an array of short duration courses and seminars for management and professional development. Instruction may be provided in diverse settings, such as the establishment's or client's training facilities, educational institutions, the workplace, or the home, and through diverse means, such as correspondence, television, the Internet, or other electronic and distance-learning methods. The training provided by these establishments may include the use of simulators and simulation methods.

Building Setback Line: A line across a lot parallel to a street right-of-way or other property line establishing the minimum open space to be provided between any principal building and the street or other property line. All building setback lines shall be at least as restrictive as the corresponding minimum yard setbacks required in the International Residential Code as it pertains to Fire-Resistant Construction (See Section R302 Table R302.1(1) Exterior Walls) and Title 2: Zoning Ordinance. On corner lots, the terms of Section 240-70 shall apply. (Ord. 25-04, 5/13/25)

Caliper: The standard for trunk measurements of nursery stock. Caliper of the trunk shall be taken at six inches above the ground for trees up to and including four-inch caliper size, and 12 inches above the ground for trees larger than four-inch caliper.

Cannabidiol (CBD oil) Retailers: This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing products containing cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive compound found in the cannabis plant, and come in various forms like oils, capsules, topicals, and edibles. (Ord. 25-05, 6/10/25)

Canopy: A roofed structure constructed of fabric or other material placed so as to extend outward from a building providing a protective shield for doors, windows and other openings, supported by the building and supports extended to the ground directly under the canopy or cantilevered from the building.

Canopy: Collective branches and foliage of a tree or group of trees. (Ord. 22-14, 12/13/22)

Car Washes (811192): This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in cleaning, washing, and/or waxing automotive vehicles, such as passenger cars, trucks, and vans, and trailers.

Cement and Concrete Product Manufacturing (3273): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in one of the following: (1) manufacturing portland, natural, masonry, pozzolanic, and other hydraulic cements; (2) acting as batch or mixing plants, manufacturing concrete delivered to a purchaser in a plastic and unhardened state; (3) manufacturing concrete pipe, brick, and block; or (4) manufacturing other concrete products (except block, brick, and pipe).

Cemeteries (812220): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in preparing the dead for burial or interment and conducting funerals (i.e., providing facilities for wakes, arranging transportation for the dead, selling caskets and related merchandise). Funeral homes combined with crematories are included in this industry.

Center: A facility providing a local place for a particular activity or service.

Charitable Organization Collection Receptacle: An unattended container, located outdoors, for the purpose of collecting donations of clothing, books, personal or household items, or other goods. Such term shall not include containers used for the purpose of collecting monetary donations.

Check Cashing Services: Any business, company, corporation, establishment, organization, private enterprise, shop or store whose primary service is that of check cashier, as defined by O.C.G.A. § 7-1-700, as may be amended from time to time.

Child Care Learning Center: Any place operated by an individual or any business entity recognized under Georgia law wherein are received for pay for group care, for fewer than 24 hours per day without transfer of legal custody, seven or more children under 18 years of age and which is required to be licensed. Child Care Learning Center also includes any day care center previously licensed by the Georgia Department of Human Resources and transferred pursuant to Code Section 20-1A-1 et seq.

Church: A place where persons regularly assemble for religious worship.

Circuses and Carnivals: Provision of games, eating and drinking facilities, live entertainment, animal exhibitions or similar activities in a tent or other temporary structure for a maximum of seven days. This classification excludes events conducted in a permanent entertainment facility.

Civic and Social Organizations (81341): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in promoting the civic and social interests of their members.

Clay Product and Refractory Manufacturing (3271): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) shaping, molding, glazing, and firing pottery, ceramics, and plumbing fixtures, and electrical supplies made entirely or partly of clay or other ceramic materials or (2) shaping, molding, baking, burning, or hardening clay refractories, nonclay refractories, ceramic tile, structural clay tile, brick, and other structural clay building materials.

Clothing and Clothing Accessories Retailers (4581): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing general or specialized lines of new clothing and clothing accessories, such as hats and caps, costume jewelry, gloves, handbags, ties, wigs, toupees, and belts. These establishments may provide basic alterations, such as hemming, taking in or letting out seams, or lengthening or shortening sleeves.

Coin-Operated Laundries and Drycleaners (812310): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) operating facilities with coin-operated or similar self-service laundry and drycleaning equipment for customer use on the premises and/or (2) supplying and servicing coin-operated or similar self-service laundry and drycleaning equipment for customer use in places of business operated by others, such as apartments and dormitories.

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113). This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in furnishing academic courses and granting degrees at baccalaureate or graduate levels. The requirement for admission is at least a high school diploma or equivalent general academic training. Instruction may be provided in diverse settings, such as the establishment's or client's training facilities, educational institutions, the workplace, or the home, and through diverse means, such as correspondence, television, the Internet, or other electronic and distance-learning methods. The training provided by these establishments may include the use of simulators and simulation methods.

Commencement: The issuance of a land disturbance permit or building permit for a project approved by the Board of Commissioners with an approved amendment.

Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Rental and Leasing (5324): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in renting or leasing commercial-type and industrial-type machinery and equipment. Establishments included in this industry group are generally involved in providing capital or investment-type equipment that clients use in their business operations. These establishments typically cater to a business clientele and do not generally operate a retail-like or storefront facility.

Commercial Banking (522110): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in accepting demand and other deposits and making commercial, industrial, and consumer loans.

Commercial banks and branches of foreign banks are included in this industry.

Commercial Development: Any development which is not a single-family residential subdivision.

Community Living Arrangement: Any residence, whether operated for profit or not, that undertakes through its ownership or management to provide or arrange for the provision of daily personal services, supports, care, or treatment exclusively for two or more adults who are not related to the owner or administrator by blood or marriage and whose residential services are financially supported, in whole or in part, by funds designated through the Department of Human Resources, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Addictive Diseases. A Community Living Arrangement is also referred to as a "residence".

Common Space: Any and all landscaped areas within the community which do not have any building with heated floor area located thereon which are intended for the common use and enjoyment of all residents.

Common Storage Facility: A facility, internally located within a residential development, to provide secure space (i.e. rooms, compartments, lockers, containers or paved outdoor space) for storage of personal items, boats, travel trailers, and/or vehicles of residents only.

Community Fair: A festival or fair, provided any activity is conducted at least 200 feet from any property line; any event shall not exceed 21 days.

Community Garden: A shared, semi-public space where people in the surrounding neighborhood share the work and harvest of maintaining a garden space for growing fruits and vegetables.

Comprehensive Plan. Any plan by a county or municipality covering such county or municipality or any plan by a regional commission covering the center’s region proposed or prepared pursuant to the minimum standards and procedures for preparation of comprehensive plans and for implementation of comprehensive plans, established by the Department of Community Affairs in accordance with O.C.G.A § 50-8-1 and Chapter 110-12-1 of the Rules of the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. (Ord. 23-04, 3/14/23)

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing (334): Industries in the Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing subsector group establishments that manufacture computers, computer peripherals, communications equipment, and similar electronic products, and establishments that manufacture components for such products.

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing expertise in the field of information technologies through one or more of the following activities: (1) writing, modifying, testing, and supporting software to meet the needs of a particular customer; (2) planning and designing computer systems that integrate computer hardware, software, and communication technologies; (3) on-site management and operation of clients' computer systems and/or data processing facilities;

and (4) other professional and technical computer related advice and services.

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing computing infrastructure, data processing services, Web hosting services (except software publishing), and related services, including streaming support services (except streaming distribution services).

Data processing establishments provide complete processing and specialized reports from data supplied by clients or provide automated data processing and data entry services.

Conference Center: A facility used for conferences and seminars, with accommodations for sleeping, food preparation and eating, recreation, entertainment, resource facilities, and meeting rooms.

Construction (23): The Construction sector comprises establishments primarily engaged in the construction of buildings or engineering projects (e.g., highways and utility systems).

Establishments primarily engaged in the preparation of sites for new construction and establishments primarily engaged in subdividing land for sale as building sites also are included in this sector.

Container Restaurant: A container restaurant is any eating facility that is confined within a transportable, modular container less than 450 square feet for use as pop-up food or a catering unit and contribute to an overall thematic design of neighboring uses.

Contiguous: Next to, abutting, or touching and having a boundary, or portion thereof, which is common or coterminous.

Convenience Retailers: This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing a limited line of groceries that generally includes milk, bread, soda, and snacks, such as convenience stores or food marts (except those operating fuel pumps). (Ord. 24-02, 02/13/24)

Conveyor Car Wash: A commercial car wash where the car moves on a conveyor belt during the wash. The driver of the vehicle can remain in the vehicle or wait outside of the vehicle. (Ord.

23-04, 3/14/23)

Copy Shops (561439): This U.S. industry comprises (1) establishments generally known as copy centers or shops primarily engaged in providing photocopying, duplicating, blueprinting, and other document copying services, without also providing printing services (e.g., offset printing, quick printing, digital printing, prepress services) and (2) establishments (except private mail centers) engaged in providing a range of office support services (except printing services), such as document copying services, facsimile services, word processing services, on-site PC rental services, and office product sales.

Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices (551114). This U.S. industry comprises establishments (except government establishments) primarily engaged in administering, overseeing, and managing other establishments of the company or enterprise.

These establishments normally undertake the strategic or organizational planning and decision-making role of the company or enterprise. Establishments in this industry may hold the securities of the company or enterprise.

Corral: A small enclosure for restricting animals as distinguished from a fence.

Corridor: All land within the buffer areas established adjacent to reservoirs or perennial streams within a water supply watershed.

County: Unless otherwise stated, the term “county” shall mean Paulding County, Georgia. (Ord.

25-04, 5/13/25)

Couriers and Express Delivery Services (492110): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing air, surface, or combined mode courier and express delivery services of parcels, but not operating under a universal service obligation. These parcels can include goods and documents, but the express delivery services are not part of the normal mail service. These services are generally between metropolitan areas, urban centers, or international, but the establishments of this industry form a network that includes local pick-up and delivery to serve their customers' needs.

Cover: Vegetative or earth materials that provide natural shelter for animal life, or the factors that provide such shelter.

Craftsman Style: The common features of the Craftsman style include low-pitched gable (triangular) roofs, overhanging eaves with exposed rafters and beams, heavy, tapered columns, patterned window panes and a covered front porch.

Crop Production (111): Industries in the Crop Production subsector grow crops mainly for food and fiber. The subsector comprises establishments, such as farms, orchards, groves, greenhouses, and nurseries, primarily engaged in growing crops, plants, vines, or trees and their seeds. (Ord. 23-07, 6/13/23)

Crosswalk: A right-of-way within a block dedicated to public use for pedestrian use only and is so designed as to provide access to adjacent streets or lots.

Curve: Any potion of a street right-of-way layout that is not straight or has an arc.

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511): This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in writing, modifying, testing, and supporting software to meet the needs of a particular customer. (Ord. 25-06, 9/9/25)

Customer: Any owner of premises receiving any County utility system service or any end-user thereof, including any and all persons, natural or artificial, including any individual firm, association or trust and any or private corporation organized or existing under the laws of this or any other state or country.

Deck: A roofless accessory attached or detached platform without exterior walls, generally constructed of wood, which adjoins a residence. Rails or safety features shall not be deemed to be exterior walls.

Development or Single Development: Any project or group of related projects constructed or planned for construction on a single parcel or on contiguous parcels under single ownership.

Development Plan: Any plan as determined by the zoning administrator which shows substantial information and intent to develop the property affected in a specific manner.

Diameter at Breast Height (DBH): The standard of tree size (for trees existing on a site). The tree trunk is measured at a height of four and a half feet above the ground. If a tree splits into multiple trunks below four and a half feet, measure the trunk at its most narrow point beneath the split.

Diet and Weight Reducing Centers (812191): This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing non-medical services to assist clients in attaining or maintaining a desired weight. The sale of weight reduction products, such as food supplements, may be an integral component of the program. These services typically include individual or group counseling, menu and exercise planning, and weight and body measurement monitoring.

Distance: The measurement in lineal feet from the closest point of the sign to the nearest property line or to the closest point of another sign, as the case may be.

Distilleries: A premises where distilled spirits are manufactured. (Ord 23-04, 3/14/23)

Dormitories: Building or space in a building in which group sleeping accommodations are provided for more than 16 persons who are not members of the same family in one room or a series of closely associated rooms under joint occupancy and single management, with or without meals, but without individual cooking facilities.

Drinking Places (722410): This industry comprises establishments known as bars, taverns, nightclubs, or drinking places primarily engaged in preparing and serving alcoholic beverages for immediate consumption. These establishments may also provide limited food services.

Drip Line: An imaginary vertical line that extends from the outermost branches of a tree's canopy to the ground.

Drive-in Motion Picture Theaters (512132): This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating drive-in motion picture theaters.

Drycleaning and Laundry Services (812320): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) providing drycleaning services (except coin-operated); (2) providing laundering services (except linen and uniform supply or coin-operated);

Dwelling: A building designed, arranged or used for permanent living and/or sleeping quarters (excludes mobile home).

Dwelling, Duplex: A building designed or arranged to be occupied by two families living independently of each other.

Dwelling, Multifamily: A dwelling containing three or more dwelling units, including single-level units located in a multistory building. This definition does not include a townhouse.

Dwelling, Single-Family Detached: A building designed or arranged to be occupied by one family only.

Dwelling, Townhouse: One of a series of three or more attached single-family dwelling units where each unit functions for use as an independent housekeeping unit with its own private entrance and each unit is located on its own separate lot in fee simple ownership.

Dwelling Unit: One or more rooms physically arranged so as to create an independent housekeeping establishment for occupancy by one family with separate toilets and facilities for cooking and sleeping.

Easement: A grant of one or more of the property rights by the property owner to and/or for use by the public, a corporation, or another person or entity, and recorded in the Clerk's office of Superior Court.

Eave: The underside of a sloping roof projecting beyond the wall of a building.

Electric Vehicle Charging Station: An infrastructure facility composed of one or more parking spaces located together that is primarily engaged in providing electricity for use in electronic charging and recharging of plug-in electric vehicles (EV).

Electrical Equipment, Appliance and Component Manufacturing (335): Industries in the Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing subsector manufacture products that generate, distribute, and use electrical power. Electric Lighting Equipment Manufacturing establishments produce lighting fixtures, electric light bulbs, and parts (except glass parts and light emitting diodes (LEDs)), and other lighting equipment. Household Appliance Manufacturing establishments make both small and major electrical appliances and parts. Electrical Equipment Manufacturing establishments make goods, such as electric motors, generators, transformers, and switchgear apparatus. Other Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing establishments make devices for storing electrical power (e.g., batteries), for transmitting electricity (e.g., insulated wire), and wiring devices (e.g., electrical outlets, fuse boxes, and light switches). (Ord. 23-07, 06/13/23)

Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses: This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing all types of merchandise using non-store means, such as catalogs, toll free telephone numbers, or electronic media, such as interactive television or the Internet. Included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in retailing from catalog showrooms of mail-order houses.

Electronics and Appliance Retailers (449210): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one of the following: (1) retailing an array of new household-type appliances and consumer-type electronic products, such as televisions, computers, electronic tablets, and cameras; (2) specializing in retailing a single line of new consumer-type electronic products; (3) retailing these new products in combination with repair and support services; (4) retailing new prepackaged or downloadable computer software (without publishing); and/or (5) retailing prerecorded audio and video media, such as downloadable digital music and video files (without production or publishing), CDs, and DVDs.

Elementary and Secondary Schools (6111). This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in furnishing academic courses and associated course work that comprise a basic preparatory education. A basic preparatory education ordinarily constitutes kindergarten through 12th grade. This industry includes school boards and school districts.

Elevation: A mechanically accurate, "head-on" drawing of a face of a building or object, without any allowance for the effect of the laws of perspective. Any measurement on an elevation will be in a fixed proportion, or scale, to the corresponding measurement on the real building.

Emission Inspection Station: A motor vehicle dealership, garage, service station, or other establishment designated or operated by the Department of Natural Resources and which has been issued by the Director a Certificate of authorization as an emission inspection station authorized to carry out the emission inspections required by O.C.G.A. §12-9-40 et al.

Event Venue: A building used for the hosting of weddings, conferences, galas, and other similar events. Such uses may include an area for catering preparation and storage, or may contain a commercial kitchen for cooking. The indoor Event Venue may also include the outdoor use of an attached deck or area adjacent to the building. (Ord. 23-07, 6/13/23)

Explosives Manufacturing (325920): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing explosives.

Extended Stay Hotel or Motels: Any hotel or motel in which fifty percent or greater of all guest rooms have facilities for both the storage and preparation of food and which are designed or utilized for weekly or monthly occupancy.

Exterminating and Pest Control Services (561710): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in exterminating and controlling birds, mosquitoes, rodents, termites, and other insects and pests (except for crop production and forestry production). Establishments providing fumigation services are included in this industry.

Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (332): Industries in the Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing subsector manufacture products that generate, distribute, and use electrical power. Electric Lighting Equipment Manufacturing establishments produce lighting fixtures, electric light bulbs, and parts (except glass parts and light emitting diodes (LEDs)), and other lighting equipment. Household Appliance Manufacturing establishments make both small and major electrical appliances and parts. Electrical Equipment Manufacturing establishments make goods, such as electric motors, generators, transformers, and switchgear apparatus. Other Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing establishments make devices for storing electrical power (e.g., batteries), for transmitting electricity (e.g., insulated wire), and wiring devices (e.g., electrical outlets, fuse boxes, and light switches). (Ord. 23-07, 6/13/23)

Façade: That portion of any exterior elevation on the building extending from grade to top of the parapet, wall, or eaves and the entire width of the building elevation.

Family: One or more related persons by blood, legal adoption, or marriage or not more than three persons not related, occupying a dwelling and living as a single housekeeping unit, as distinguished from persons occupying a boardinghouse, rooming house or hotel, as herein defined. Maximum residential occupancy for a residential dwelling unit will be calculated by the number of residents per square foot of floor space as per the currently adopted International Property Maintenance Code.

Family Child Care Learning Home: A private residence operated by any person who receives therein for pay for supervision and care fewer than 24 hours per day, without transfer of legal custody, at least three but not more than six children under 13 years of age who are not related to such persons and whose parent(s) are not residents in the same private residence as the provider and which is required to be licensed; provided, however, that the total number of unrelated children cared for in such home, for pay and not for pay, may not exceed six children under 13 years of age at one time, except that a provider may care for two additional children three years of age or older for two designated one hour periods daily upon approval by the Department of Human Resources.

Farm Machinery and Equipment (except Automotive and Electronic) Repair Maintenance Services (811310): This sector comprises of establishments that are engaged primarily in the repair or maintenance of machinery used in farming and other agricultural uses. Such equipment includes but is not limited to plows, harvesters, planters, hay balers, and the like.

Farm Winery: A winery which makes at least 40 percent of its annual production from agricultural produce grown in the state where the winery is located and: (A) Is located on premises, a substantial portion of which is used for agricultural purposes, including the cultivation of grapes, berries, or fruits to be utilized in the manufacture or production of wine by the winery; or (B) Is owned and operated by persons who are engaged in the production of a substantial portion of the agricultural produce used in its annual production Fertilizer Manufacturing (32531): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing nitrogenous or phosphatic fertilizer materials; (2) manufacturing fertilizers from sewage or animal waste; (3) manufacturing nitrogenous or phosphatic materials and mixing with other ingredients into fertilizers; and (4) mixing ingredients made elsewhere into fertilizers.

Final Plat: A finished drawing or drawings of the subdivision showing completely and accurately all legal and engineering information and certification necessary for recording. The finished drawing or drawings may consist of one or more drawings of the subdivision which together form the final plat, all of which must comply with the requirements of this UDO.

Finance and Insurance Offices (52): The Finance and Insurance sector comprises establishments primarily engaged in financial transactions (transactions involving the creation, liquidation, or change in ownership of financial assets) and/or in facilitating financial transactions.

Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities (522320): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing one or more of the following:

Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers (713940): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating fitness and recreational sports facilities featuring exercise and other active physical fitness conditioning or recreational sports activities, such as swimming, skating, or racquet sports.

Flea Market: Any event whose primary service is that of a flea market, as defined by O.C.G.A § 10-1-360, as may be amended from time to time.

Flex Building(s): A building that combines office and/or retail space with warehouse/storage space for the current office and/or retail use within the same building. Flex buildings do not include self-storage/mini-warehouse uses. (Ord. 25-05, 6/10/25)

Floor Area, Gross: The floor area within the inside perimeter of the exterior walls of the building under consideration, exclusive of vent shafts and courts, without deduction for corridors, stairways, closets, the thickness of interior walls, columns or other features. The floor area of a building, or portion thereof, not provided with surrounding exterior walls shall be the usable area under the horizontal projection of the roof or floor above.

Floor Area (Space), Net: The total of all floor areas of a building, excluding stairwells and elevator shafts, equipment rooms, interior vehicular parking or loading; and all floors below the first or ground floor, except when used or intended to be used for human habitation or service to the public.

Florists (459310): This industry comprises establishments known as florists primarily engaged in retailing cut flowers, floral arrangements, and potted plants purchased from others. These establishments usually prepare the arrangements they sell.

Fluid Power Pump and Motor Manufacturing (333996): This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing fluid power (i.e., hydraulic and pneumatic) pumps and motors.

Food Manufacturing (311): Industries in the Food Manufacturing subsector transform livestock and agricultural products into products for intermediate or final consumption. The industry groups are distinguished by the raw materials (generally of animal or vegetable origin) processed into food products. The food products manufactured in these establishments are typically sold to wholesalers or retailers for distribution to consumers, but establishments primarily engaged in retailing bakery and candy products made on the premises not for immediate consumption are included.

Food Services and Drinking Places (722): Industries in the Food Services and Drinking Places subsector prepare meals, snacks, and beverages to customer order for immediate on-premises and off-premises consumption. There is a wide range of establishments in these industries. Some provide food and drink only, while others provide various combinations of seating space, waiter/waitress services, and incidental amenities, such as limited entertainment. The industries in the subsector are grouped based on the type and level of services provided. The industry groups are Special Food Services, such as food service contractors, caterers, and mobile food services; Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages); and Restaurants and Other Eating Places.

Forestry and Logging (113): Industries in the Forestry and Logging subsector grow and harvest timber on a long production cycle (i.e., of 10 years or more). Long production cycles use different production processes than short production cycles, which require more horticultural interventions prior to harvest, resulting in processes more similar to those found in the Crop Production subsector. Industries in this subsector specialize in different stages of the production cycle.

Reforestation requires production of seedlings in specialized nurseries. Timber production requires natural forest or suitable areas of land that are available for a long duration. The maturation time for timber depends upon the species of tree, the climatic conditions of the region, and the intended purpose of the timber. The harvesting of timber (except when done on an extremely small scale) requires specialized machinery unique to the industry. Establishments gathering forest products, such as gums, barks, balsam needles, rhizomes, fibers, Spanish moss, and ginseng and truffles, are also included in this subsector.

Freight Transportation Arrangement (488510): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in arranging transportation of freight between shippers and carriers. These establishments are usually known as freight forwarders, marine shipping agents, or customs brokers and offer a combination of services spanning transportation modes.

Frontage, Lot: The distance for which the front property line of the lot and the street line are coincident.

Funeral Homes and Funeral Services (812210): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in preparing the dead for burial or interment and conducting funerals (i.e., providing facilities for wakes, arranging transportation for the dead, selling caskets and related merchandise). Funeral homes combined with crematories are included in this industry.

Furniture and Home Furnishing Retailers (4491): Industries in the Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores subsector retail new furniture and home furnishings from fixed point-of-sale locations. Establishments in this subsector usually operate from showrooms and have substantial areas for the presentation of their products. Many offer interior decorating services in addition to the sale of products.

Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing (337): Industries in the Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing subsector make furniture and related articles, such as mattresses, window blinds, cabinets, and fixtures. The processes used in the manufacture of furniture include the cutting, bending, molding, laminating, and assembly of such materials as wood, metal, glass, plastics, and rattan. However, the production process for furniture is not solely bending metal, cutting and shaping wood, or extruding and molding plastics. Design and fashion trends play an important part in the production of furniture. The integrated design of the article for both esthetic and functional qualities is also a major part of the process of manufacturing furniture. Design services may be performed by the furniture establishment's work force or may be purchased from industrial designers.

Gable: The portion, above eave level, of an end wall of a building with a pitched or gambrel roof.

In the case of a pitched roof this takes the form of a triangle. The term is also used sometimes to refer to the whole end wall.

Gasoline Stations with Convenience Stores: This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing automotive fuels (e.g., gasoline, diesel fuel, gasohol, alternative fuels) in combination with a limited line of groceries. These establishments can either be in a convenience store (i.e., food mart) setting or a gasoline station setting. These establishments may also provide automotive repair services. (Ord. 24-02, 02/13/24)

Garage: A structure or any portion thereof in which one or more automobiles are housed, kept, or repaired, not including exhibition or showrooms, or storage of cars for sale.

Garage, Side-Entry: A garage that is built on the side of a house, rather than facing the street.

The garage doors are not directly visible from the street but are accessed from a driveway on the side of the house. A garage that is situated at the front of the home and separated by a courtyard or driveway is not considered side-entry. (Ord. 25-04, 5/13/25)

General Automotive Repair (811111): This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing (1) a wide range of mechanical and electrical repair and maintenance services for automotive vehicles, such as passenger cars, trucks, and vans, and all trailers or (2) engine repair and replacement.

General Freight Trucking (4841): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing general freight trucking. General freight trucking establishments handle a wide variety of commodities, generally palletized, and transported in a container or van trailer.

The establishments of this industry group provide a combination of the following network activities:

local pick-up, local sorting and terminal operations, line-haul, destination sorting and terminal operations, and local delivery.

General Merchandise Retailers (455): Industries in the General Merchandise Stores subsector retail new general merchandise from fixed point-of-sale locations. Establishments in this subsector are unique in that they have the equipment and staff capable of retailing a large variety of goods from a single location. This includes a variety of display equipment and staff trained to provide information on many lines of products.

General Warehousing and Storage (493110): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating merchandise warehousing and storage facilities. These establishments generally handle goods in containers, such as boxes, barrels, and/or drums, using equipment, such as forklifts, pallets, and racks. They are not specialized in handling bulk products of any particular type, size, or quantity of goods or products.

Gift, Novelty, and Souvenir Retailers (459420): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing new gifts, novelty merchandise, souvenirs, greeting cards, seasonal and holiday decorations, and curios. This definition and use does not involve any uses defined under the Sexually Oriented Business ordinance or cigar shop, smoke shop, vape shop and tobacco store definitions adopted in the Code of Ordinances.

Glass and Glass Product Manufacturing (32721): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing glass and/or glass products. Establishments in this industry may manufacture glass and/or glass products by melting silica sand or cullet, or from purchased glass.

Golf Courses (713910): This industry comprises (1) establishments primarily engaged in operating golf courses (except miniature) and (2) establishments primarily engaged in operating golf courses, along with dining facilities and other recreational facilities that are known as country clubs. These establishments often provide food and beverage services, equipment rental services, and golf instruction services.

Grade: An average level of the finished surface of the ground adjacent to the exterior walls of the building or structure.

Greenhouse, Nursery, and Floriculture Production (1114): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in growing crops of any kind under cover and/or growing nursery stock and flowers. "Under cover" is generally defined as greenhouses, cold frames, cloth houses, and lath houses. The crops grown are removed at various stages of maturity and have annual and perennial life cycles. The nursery stock includes short rotation woody crops that have growth Guest House: Guest houses are accessory buildings limited to one (1) such structure per lot and shall not include manufactured, mobile or modular structures. The minimum lot size is two

Hair, Nail, and Skin Care Services (81211): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) providing hair care services; (2) providing nail care services; and (3) providing facials or applying makeup (except permanent makeup).

Hardware Retailers (444140): This industry comprises establishments known as hardware stores primarily engaged in retailing a general line of new hardware items, such as tools and builders' hardware.

Hardwood Tree: Any tree that is not coniferous (cone bearing). This definition is based on the colloquialism, and does not necessarily reflect any true qualities of the tree.

Health and Personal Care Retailers (456): Industries in the Health and Personal Care Stores subsector retail health and personal care merchandise from fixed point-of-sale locations.

Establishments in this subsector are characterized principally by the products they retail, and some health and personal care stores may have specialized staff trained in dealing with the products. Staff may include pharmacists, opticians, and other professionals engaged in retailing, advising customers, and/or fitting the product sold to the customer's needs.

Height: The measure in linear feet from the highest point on an object to the unaltered elevation of the ground at the base of the object or directly beneath the object. At the election of the permit holder, the height of a sign may be measured from the highest point on the sign to the level of the nearest road from which the sign is intended to be viewed. When referring to a tower or other structure, a distance measured from the finished grade of the parcel to the highest point on the tower or other structure, including the base pad and any antenna.

Heliports: Landing and takeoff places for a helicopters.

Historic Sites: Refers to the location of a significant event, a prehistoric or historic occupation or activity, or a building or structure, whether standing, ruined, or vanished, where the location itself possesses historic, cultural, or archeological value regardless of the value of any existing structure (habitation sites, funerary sites, rock shelters, village sites, hunting and fishing sites, ceremonial sites, pertroglyphs, rock carvings, gardens, grounds, battlefields, ruins of historic buildings and structures, campsites, trails, areas of land, cemeteries, designed landscapes, and natural features, such as springs and rock formations, and land areas having cultural significance).

Hobby Breeder: A person who offers for sale one litter of animals during a 12-month period per household. A household which sells two litters during a 12-month period, even if the litters are produced from different animals, will not be considered a hobby breeder and will be subject to the registration procedures applicable to animal establishments and breeders as designated in Paulding Code Chapter 14, Article II.

Hog and Pig Farming (112210): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in raising hogs and pigs. These establishments may include farming activities, such as breeding, farrowing, and the raising of weanling pigs, feeder pigs, or market size hogs.

Home Occupation: An occupation carried on within a dwelling unit for gain or support, meeting the requirements of Section 230-30.

Hospitals (622): Industries in the Hospitals subsector provide medical, diagnostic, and treatment services that include physician, nursing, and other health services to inpatients and the specialized accommodation services required by inpatients. Hospitals may also provide outpatient services as a secondary activity. Establishments in the Hospitals subsector provide inpatient health services, many of which can only be provided using the specialized facilities and equipment that form a significant and integral part of the production process.

Hotels and Motels (721110): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing short-term lodging in facilities known as hotels, motor hotels, resort hotels, and motels.

The establishments in this industry may offer food and beverage services, recreational services, conference rooms, convention services, laundry services, parking, and other services.

In-bay Automatic Car Wash: A commercial car wash where the driver pulls into the bay and parks the car. The vehicle remains stationary while a machine moves back and forth over the vehicle to clean it, instead of the vehicle moving through the tunnel. (Ord. 23-04, 3/14/23)

I-Dining: An establishment where food and/or beverages are sold in a form ready for consumption, where all or a significant portion of the consumption takes place or is designed to take place outside the confines of the restaurant and where ordering and pickup of food may take place from an automobile.

Includes: Denotes a partial definition.

Industrialized Building: Any structure or component thereof which is wholly or in substantial part made, fabricated, formed, or assembled in manufacturing facilities for installation or assembly and installation on a building site and has been manufactured in such a manner that all parts or processes cannot be inspected at the installation site without disassembly, damage to, or destruction thereof.

Installation: The assembly of an industrialized building on-site and the process of affixing the industrialized building, component, or system to land, a foundation, footings, or an existing building.

Intermediate Care Home: A facility which admits residents on medical referral; it maintains the services and facilities for institutional care and has a satisfactory agreement with a physician and dentist who will provide continuing supervision including emergencies; it otherwise complies with Chapter 111-8-47 of the Georgia Rules of Department of Community Health Healthcare Facility Regulation.

Junior Colleges (6112). This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in furnishing academic, or academic and technical, courses and granting associate degrees, certificates, or diplomas below the baccalaureate level. The requirement for admission to an associate or equivalent degree program is at least a high school diploma or equivalent general academic training. Instruction may be provided in diverse settings, such as the establishment's or client's training facilities, educational institutions, the workplace, or the home, and through diverse means, such as correspondence, television, the Internet, or other electronic and distance-learning methods. The training provided by these establishments may include the use of simulators and simulation methods.

Kennel: Any premises where any person engages in the business of boarding, breeding, buying, letting for hire, training for a fee, or selling animals.

Kidney Dialysis Centers (621492): This U.S. industry comprises establishments with medical staff primarily engaged in providing outpatient kidney or renal dialysis services.

Lake: A body of water one acre or more in surface area, created either by a manmade or natural dam or other means of water impoundment.

Land Use Permit: An official authorization for use of land not to exceed two years which has been granted by the Board of Commissioners in accord with this UDO.

Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing (316): Establishments in the Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing subsector transform hides into leather by tanning or curing and fabricating the leather into products for final consumption. This subsector also includes the manufacture of similar products from other materials, including products (except apparel) made from "leather substitutes," such as rubber, plastics, or textiles. Rubber footwear, textile luggage, and plastics purses or wallets are examples of "leather substitute" products included in this subsector. The products made from leather substitutes are included in this subsector because they are made in similar ways leather products are made (e.g., luggage). They are made in the same establishments, so it is not practical to separate them. (Ord. 23-07, 6/13/23)

Lime and Gypsum Product Manufacturing (3274): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing lime from calcitic limestone, dolomitic limestone, or other calcareous materials or (2) manufacturing gypsum products.

Linen Supply (812331): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in supplying, on a rental or contract basis, laundered items, such as table and bed linens; towels; diapers; and uniforms, gowns, or coats of the type used by doctors, nurses, barbers, beauticians, and waitresses.

Local Messengers and Local Delivery (492210): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing local messenger and delivery services of small items within a single metropolitan area or within an urban center. These establishments generally provide point-to-point pick-up and delivery and do not operate as part of an intercity courier network.

Lot: A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by plat, subdivision or as otherwise permitted by law, to be separately owned, used, developed or built upon, also, a parcel of land, whether or not platted, in single ownership, and not divided by a street. (Ord. 25-04, 5/13/25)

Lot, Corner: A lot fronting on two streets at their intersection. When the frontage of one street exceeds the frontage of the other, the one with the least frontage shall be deemed the front of the lot. The side yard setback for a corner lot shall be 25 feet in all zoning districts except where otherwise noted herein.

Lot Depth: The average horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines, measured in the general direction of the side lot lines.

Lot, Double Frontage: Any lot, other than a corner lot, which has frontage on two streets.

Lot Frontage: The distance for which the front property line of the lot and the street line are coincident.

Lot of Record: A lot which is part of a lawfully created subdivision, a plat of which has been recorded in the records of the Clerk of Superior Court of Paulding County; or a parcel of land, the deed of which has been recorded in the same office as of the effective date of this ordinance.

Lot, Width: The distance between side lot lines measured at the front building line.

Maintenance: Routine care for a building, structure or site that does not involve design alterations.

Machine Shops: Turned Product; and Screw, Nut, and Bolt Manufacturing (3327): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in one of the following: (1) operating machine shops primarily engaged in machining metal and plastic parts and parts of other composite materials on a job or order basis; (2) machining precision turned products; or (3) manufacturing metal bolts, nuts, screws, rivets, and other industrial fasteners. (Ord. 23-07, 6/13/23)

Machinery Manufacturing (333): Industries in the Machinery Manufacturing subsector create end products that apply mechanical force, for example, the application of gears and levers, to perform work. Some important processes for the manufacture of machinery are forging, stamping, bending, forming, and machining that are used to shape individual pieces of metal. Processes, such as welding and assembling are used to join separate parts together. Although these processes are similar to those used in metal fabricating establishments, machinery manufacturing is different because it typically employs multiple metal forming processes in manufacturing the various parts of the machine. Moreover, complex assembly operations are an inherent part of the production process. (Ord. 23-07, 6/13/23)

Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing advice and assistance to businesses and other organizations on management, environmental, scientific, and technical issues. (Ord. 25-06, 9/9/25)

Manufacture: The process of making, fabricating, constructing, forming, or assembling a product from raw, unfinished, or semi-finished materials.

Manufactured (mobile) Home: A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning and electrical systems contained herein. (Reference 42 USC 5402[6] [24CFR 3280.2(a) (16)] and the Official Code of Georgia Annotated 8-2-131[2].)

Manufactured Home Park: A parcel of land which has been planned and improved for the placement of manufactured homes and/or mobile homes for non-transient use in accordance with requirements of this Ordinance.

Massage Therapy: The application of a system of structured touch, pressure, movement, and holding to the soft tissue of the body in which the primary intent is to enhance or restore health and well-being. The term includes complementary methods, including without limitation the external application of water, superficial heat, superficial cold, lubricants, salt scrubs, or other topical preparations and the use of commercially available electromechanical devices which do not require the use of transcutaneous electrodes and which mimic or enhance the actions possible by the hands; the term also includes determining whether massage therapy is appropriate or contraindicated, or whether referral to another health care provider is appropriate. Massage therapy shall not include the use of ultrasound, fluidotherapy, laser, and other methods of deep thermal modalities.

Materials Recovery Facilities (562920): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) operating facilities for separating and sorting recyclable materials from nonhazardous waste streams (i.e., garbage) and/or (2) operating facilities where commingled recyclable materials, such as paper, plastics, used beverage cans, and metals, are sorted into distinct categories.

Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing (33911): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing medical equipment and supplies. Examples of products made by these establishments are surgical and medical instruments, surgical appliances and supplies, dental equipment and supplies, orthodontic goods, ophthalmic goods, dentures, and orthodontic appliances.

Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (423): Industries in the Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods subsector sell capital or durable goods to other businesses. Merchant wholesalers generally take title to the goods that they sell; in other words, they buy and sell goods on their own account. Durable goods are new or used items generally with a normal life expectancy of three years or more. Durable goods merchant wholesale trade establishments are engaged in wholesaling products, such as motor vehicles, furniture, construction materials, machinery and equipment (including household-type appliances), metals and minerals (except petroleum), sporting goods, toys and hobby goods, recyclable materials, and parts.

Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods (424): Industries in the Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods subsector sell nondurable goods to other businesses. Nondurable goods are items generally with a normal life expectancy of less than three years. Nondurable goods merchant wholesale trade establishments are engaged in wholesaling products, such as paper and paper products, chemicals and chemical products, drugs, textiles and textile products, apparel, footwear, groceries, farm products, petroleum and petroleum products, alcoholic beverages, books, magazines, newspapers, flowers and nursery stock, and tobacco products.

Millwork (32191): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing hardwood and softwood cut stock and dimension stock (i.e., shapes); wood windows and wood doors; and other millwork including wood flooring. Dimension stock or cut stock is defined as lumber and worked wood products cut or shaped to specialized sizes. These establishments generally use woodworking machinery, such as jointers, planers, lathes, and routers to shape wood. (Ord. 23-07, 6/13/23)

Miscellaneous Manufacturing (3399): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in miscellaneous manufacturing, such as jewelry and silverware manufacturing, sporting and athletic goods manufacturing, doll, toy, and game manufacturing, office supplies (except paper) manufacturing, sign manufacturing, and all other miscellaneous manufacturing. (Ord. 23-07, 6/13/23)

Miscellaneous Store Retailers (except Tobacco Stores) (459999): This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing miscellaneous specialized lines of merchandise (except motor vehicle and parts dealers; building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers; food and beverage retailers; furniture, home furnishings, electronics, and appliance retailers; general merchandise retailers; health and personal care retailers; gasoline stations and fuel dealers; clothing, clothing accessories, shoe, and jewelry retailers; sporting goods, hobby, and musical instrument retailers; book retailers and news dealers; florists; office supplies, stationery, and gift retailers; used merchandise retailers; pet and pet supplies retailers;

art dealers; manufactured (mobile) home dealers; and tobacco, electronic cigarette, and other smoking supplies retailers).

Miscellaneous Wood Product Manufacturing (321999): This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing wood products (except establishments operating sawmills and preservation facilities; establishments manufacturing veneer, engineered wood products, millwork, wood containers, pallets, and wood container parts; and establishments making manufactured homes (i.e., mobile homes) and prefabricated buildings and components).

Mobile Food Services (722330): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in preparing and serving meals and snacks for immediate consumption from motorized vehicles or nonmotorized carts. The establishment is the central location from which the caterer route is serviced, not each vehicle or cart. Included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in providing food services from vehicles, such as hot dog carts and ice cream trucks. (Ord. 25-05, 6/10/25)

Mobile Food Vending Unit: Any motorized vehicle, designed to be portable and not permanently attached to the ground from which food is peddled, vended, sold for sale or given away.

Motion Picture Theater (except Drive-Ins) (512131): This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating motion picture theaters (except drive-ins) and/or exhibiting motion pictures or videos at film festivals, and so forth.

Motor Vehicle: An automotive vehicle not operated on rails for use on highways.

Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers (441): Industries in the Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers subsector retail motor vehicles and parts from fixed point-of-sale locations. Establishments in this subsector typically operate from a showroom and/or an open lot where the vehicles are on display.

The display of vehicles and the related parts require little by way of display equipment. The personnel generally include both the sales and sales support staff familiar with the requirements for registering and financing a vehicle as well as a staff of parts experts and mechanics trained to provide repair and maintenance services for the vehicles. Specific industries included in this subsector identify the type of vehicle being retailed.

Motor Vehicle Body and Trailer Manufacturing (33621): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing motor vehicle bodies and cabs or (2) manufacturing truck, automobile and utility trailers, truck trailer chassis, detachable trailer bodies, and detachable trailer chassis. The products made may be sold separately or may be assembled on purchased chassis and sold as complete vehicles.

Motor Vehicle Manufacturing (3361): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing complete automobiles, light duty motor vehicles, and heavy duty trucks (i.e., body and chassis or unibody) or (2) manufacturing motor vehicle chassis only.

Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing (3363): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing motor vehicle gasoline engines and engine parts, motor vehicle electrical and electronic equipment, motor vehicle steering and suspension components (except springs), motor vehicle brake systems, motor vehicle transmission and power train parts, motor vehicle seating and interior trim, motor vehicle metal stampings, and other motor vehicle parts and accessories. This industry group includes establishments that rebuild motor vehicle parts.

Motor Vehicle Towing (488410): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in towing light or heavy motor vehicles, both local and long-distance. These establishments may provide incidental services, such as storage and emergency road repair services.

Motorcycle, Bicycle, and Parts Manufacturing (336991): this U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing motorcycles, bicycles, tricycles and similar equipment, and parts.

Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (712): Industries in the Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions subsector engage in the preservation and exhibition of objects, sites, and natural wonders of historical, cultural, and/or educational value.

Nature Parks and Other Similar Institutions (712190): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the preservation and exhibition of natural areas or settings.

Newspaper Publishers (513110): This industry comprises establishments known as newspaper publishers. Establishments in this industry carry out operations necessary for producing and distributing newspapers, including gathering news; writing news columns, feature stories, and editorials; and selling and preparing advertisements. These establishments may publish newspapers in print or electronic form, including exclusively on the Internet.

Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying (2123): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in developing mine sites, or in mining or quarrying nonmetallic minerals (except fuels). Also included are certain well and brine operations, and preparation plants primarily engaged in beneficiating (e.g., crushing, grinding, washing, and concentrating) nonmetallic minerals.

Nursing Home: A facility which admits patients on medical referral only and for whom arrangements have been made for continuous medical supervision; it maintains the services and facilities for skilled nursing care, rehabilitative nursing care, and has a satisfactory agreement with a physician and dentist who will be available for any medical and/or dental emergency and who will be responsible for the general medical and dental supervision of the home; it otherwise complies with Chapter 111-8-56 of the Georgia Rules of Community Health.

Office Supplies and Stationary Retailers (459410): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) retailing new office supplies, stationery, and school supplies; (2) retailing a combination of new office equipment, furniture, and supplies; and

Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers (531210): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in acting as agents and/or brokers in one or more of the following: (1) selling real estate for others; (2) buying real estate for others; and (3) renting real estate for others.

Open Space: Any and all areas within the community which are left in a natural, undisturbed state and are intended for the common use and enjoyment of all residents. Buffers, including stream buffers, may be considered open space, but neither detention ponds nor any part of the right-of-way may be considered open space.

Outpatient Care Centers except Kidney Dialysis Centers (6214): This industry group comprises establishments with medical staff primarily engaged in providing a range of outpatient services, such as family planning, diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders and alcohol and other substance abuse, and other general or specialized outpatient care. This use does not include Kidney Dialysis Centers.

Overlay District: A district that applies supplementary regulations to land previously classified as belonging to a specific zoning district or land-use category.

Overstory Tree: The uppermost layer of the forest canopy; a tree or tree species with a crown that exists in, or has the potential to reach, the uppermost portion of the forest canopy. Usually over 40 feet in maximum height. (Ord. 22-14, 12/13/22)

Package: Bottle, can, keg, barrel, or other original consumer container.

Paint, Coating, and Adhesive Manufacturing (3255): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) mixing pigments, solvents, and binders into paints and other coatings; (2) manufacturing allied paint products; and (3) manufacturing adhesives, glues, and caulking compounds.

Paper Manufacturing (322): Industries in the Paper Manufacturing subsector make pulp, paper, or converted paper products. The manufacturing of these products is grouped together because they constitute a series of vertically connected processes. More than one is often carried out in a single establishment. There are essentially three activities. The manufacturing of pulp involves separating the cellulose fibers from other impurities in wood or used paper. The manufacturing of paper involves matting these fibers into a sheet. The manufacturing of converted paper products involves converting paper and other materials by various cutting and shaping techniques and includes coating and laminating activities.

Parcel Delivery Locker: A secure container that allows parcel delivery services to store parcels delivered to a centralized mail box for the surrounding community in which the lockers are located.

Park: Any lands or facility owned, operated, controlled or managed by any county, city, state, or federal government or any governmental entity in and upon which recreational activities or places are provided for the recreation and enjoyment of the general public.

Parking Lots and Garages (812930): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing parking space for motor vehicles, usually on an hourly, daily, or monthly basis and/or valet parking services.

Parking Space: An area which has for its exclusive purpose the parking of a vehicle which complies with the adopted design standards.

Paulding County or County: Refers to a political subdivision chartered and enabled pursuant to the laws of the State of Georgia, any department, board, or commission of such County, any elected or appointed official, or any employee or designee thereof.

Pawnbrokers: Any person engaged in whole or in part in the business of lending money on the security of pledged goods, or in the business of purchasing tangible personal property on the condition that it may be redeemed or repurchased by the seller for a fixed price within a fixed period of time, or in the business of purchasing tangible personal property from persons or sources other than manufacturers or licensed dealers as a part of or in conjunction with the business activities described in in O.C.G.A. § 44-12-130, or as it may be amended from time to time.

Personal and Household Goods Repair and Maintenance (811490): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in repairing and servicing personal or household-type goods without retailing new personal or household-type goods (except home and garden equipment, appliances, furniture, and footwear and leather goods). Establishments in this industry repair items, such as garments; watches; jewelry; musical instruments; bicycles and motorcycles; and motorboats, canoes, sailboats, and other recreational boats.

Personal Care Home: Any dwelling, whether operated for profit or not, which undertakes through its ownership or management to provide or arrange for the provision of housing, food service, and one or more personal services for two or more adults who are not related to the owner or administrator by blood or marriage.

Pet and Pet Supplies Retailers (459910): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing pets, pet foods, and pet supplies.

Pet Care (except Veterinary) Services (812910): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing pet care services (except veterinary), such as boarding, grooming, sitting, and training pets.

Petroleum Refineries (324110): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in refining crude petroleum into refined petroleum. Petroleum refining involves one or more of the following activities: (1) fractionation; (2) straight distillation of crude oil; and (3) cracking.

Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing (32541): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing biological and medicinal products; (2) processing (i.e., grading, grinding, and milling) botanical drugs and herbs; (3) isolating active medicinal principals from botanical drugs and herbs; and (4) manufacturing pharmaceutical products intended for internal and external consumption in such forms as ampoules, tablets, capsules, vials, ointments, powders, solutions, and suspensions.

Photofinishing Laboratories (812921): This U.S. industry comprises establishments (except those known as "one-hour" photofinishing labs) primarily engaged in developing film and/or making photographic slides, prints, and enlargements.

Planning Commission: The Paulding County Planning Commission.

Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing (326): Industries in the Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing subsector make goods by processing plastics materials and raw rubber. The core technology employed by establishments in this subsector is that of plastics or rubber product production. Plastics and rubber are combined in the same subsector because plastics are increasingly being used as a substitute for rubber; however, the subsector is generally restricted to the production of products made of just one material, either solely plastics or rubber. (Ord. 23-07, 6/13/23)

Plat: A map, plan, or layout, to scale of the unincorporated county lot, section, sub-division or development indicating the location and boundaries of properties, and prepared by a registered land surveyor. Should the plat be recorded, it shall meet the minimum State of Georgia Plat Act requirements, and as may be amended from time to time.

Pollution or pollutants: The manmade or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological and radiological integrity of water or air. The contamination or other alteration of any water's physical, chemical or biological properties by the addition of any constituent and includes but is not limited to, a change in temperature, taste, color, turbidity, or odor of such waters, or the discharge of any liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive, or other substance into any such waters as will or is likely to create a nuisance or render such waters harmful, detrimental or injurious to the public health, safety, welfare, or environment, or to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to livestock, wild animals, birds, fish or other aquatic life.

Premises: Any building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of land whether improved or unimproved including adjacent sidewalks and parking strips.

Primary Metal Manufacturing (331): Industries in the Primary Metal Manufacturing subsector smelt and/or refine ferrous and nonferrous metals from ore, pig or scrap, using electrometallurgical and other process metallurgical techniques. Establishments in this subsector also manufacture metal alloys and superalloys by introducing other chemical elements to pure metals. The output of smelting and refining, usually in ingot form, is used in rolling, drawing, and extruding operations to make sheet, strip, bar, rod, or wire, and in molten form to make castings and other basic metal products.

Principal Use: The primary purpose for which land or a building is used.

Printing and Related Support Activities (323): Industries in the Printing and Related Support Activities subsector print products, such as newspapers, books, labels, business cards, stationery, business forms, and other materials, and perform support activities, such as data imaging, platemaking services, and bookbinding. The support activities included here are an integral part of the printing industry, and a product (a printing plate, a bound book, or a computer disk or file) that is an integral part of the printing industry is almost always provided by these operations. (Ord. 23-07, 6/13/23)

Private: Any building, structure, or use owned, operated and/or intended for the restricted use of a particular person, group, or class.

Private Mail Centers (561431): This U.S. industry comprises (1) establishments primarily engaged in providing mailbox rental and other postal and mailing (except direct mail advertising) services or (2) establishments engaged in providing these mailing services along with one or more other office support services, such as facsimile services, word processing services, on-site PC rental services, and office product sales.

Produce Stand, Temporary: A structure not greater than one thousand (1,000) square feet for the purpose of seasonal sales of agricultural products.

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (541): Industries in the Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services subsector group establishments engaged in processes where human capital is the major input. These establishments make available the knowledge and skills of their employees, often on an assignment basis, where an individual or team is responsible for the delivery of services to the client. The individual industries of this subsector are defined on the basis of the particular expertise and training of the services provider.

Project: The improvements associated with the approval of a rezoning, including but not limited to the development of a residential subdivision or commercial development, construction of a structure, renovation of a tenant space, or active operation of the use granted.

Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals (622210): This industry comprises establishments known and licensed as psychiatric and substance abuse hospitals primarily engaged in providing diagnostic, medical treatment, and monitoring services for inpatients who suffer from mental illness or substance abuse disorders. The treatment often requires an extended stay in the hospital. These establishments maintain inpatient beds and provide patients with food services that meet their nutritional requirements. They have an organized staff of physicians and other medical staff to provide patient care services. Psychiatric, psychological, and social work services are available at the facility. These hospitals usually provide other services, such as outpatient services, clinical laboratory services, diagnostic X-ray services, and electroencephalograph services.

Public: Any building, structure, or use owned and/or operated by the federal government, state of Georgia, Paulding County or other County, any municipality, the Paulding County School District or any authority, agency, board, or commission of the above governments, that is necessary to serve a public purpose, such as but not limited to the following: government administrative buildings, post offices, police and fire stations, libraries and publicly operated museums, public health facilities and public hospitals, public works camps, parks and community centers, public roads and streets, schools, airports, water and sanitary sewerage intake, collection, pumping, treatment, and storage facilities, emergency medical facilities, and jails and correctional facilities.

Public Administration (92): The Public Administration sector consists of establishments of federal, state, and local government agencies that administer, oversee, and manage public programs and have executive, legislative, or judicial authority over other institutions within a given area. These agencies also set policy, create laws, adjudicate civil and criminal legal cases, and provide for public safety and for national defense. In general, government establishments in the Public Administration sector oversee governmental programs and activities that are not performed by private establishments. Establishments in this sector typically are engaged in the organization and financing of the production of public goods and services, most of which are provided for free or at prices that are not economically significant.

Public Utilities (22): The Utilities sector comprises establishments engaged in the provision of the following utility services: electric power, natural gas, steam supply, water supply, and sewage treatment and disposal. Within this sector, the specific activities associated with the utility services provided vary by utility: electric power includes generation, transmission, and distribution; natural gas includes distribution; steam supply includes provision and/or distribution; water supply includes treatment and distribution; and sewage removal includes collection, treatment, and disposal of waste through sewer systems and sewage treatment facilities. (Ord. 25-06, 9/9/25)

Racetracks (711212): This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating racetracks. These establishments may also present and/or promote the events, such as auto, dog, and horse races, held in these facilities.

Radio and Television Broadcasting (5151): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating broadcast studios and facilities for over-the-air or satellite delivery of radio and television programs. These establishments are often engaged in the production or purchase of programs or generate revenues from the sale of air time to advertisers, from donations and subsidies, or from the sale of programs.

Recreational Building: Recreational buildings are accessory buildings limited to one such structure per lot and shall not include manufactured, mobile or modular structures. The minimum lot size is 10 acres and shall be limited to the total area of all structures (existing and proposed) to be not more than 20% of the total lot area and meeting the requirements of Section 230-30.

Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers (423930): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of automotive scrap, industrial scrap, and other recyclable materials. Included in this industry are auto wreckers primarily engaged in dismantling motor vehicles for the purpose of wholesaling scrap.

Recycled Water System: A water system that captures and reuses water previously used in was or rinse cycles. (Ord. 23-04, 3/14/23)

Recycling Center: A center or location designed for sorting or collection of recyclables from designated recycling collection locations and other private entity sources.

Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage (493120): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating refrigerated warehousing and storage facilities. Establishments primarily engaged in the storage of furs for the trade are included in this industry. The services provided by these establishments include blast freezing, tempering, and modified atmosphere storage services.

Religious Organizations (813110): This industry comprises (1) establishments primarily engaged in operating religious organizations, such as churches, religious temples, and monasteries, and/or (2) establishments primarily engaged in administering an organized religion or promoting religious activities.

Rental and Leasing Services (532): Industries in the Rental and Leasing Services subsector include establishments that provide a wide array of tangible goods, such as automobiles, computers, consumer goods, and industrial machinery and equipment, to customers in return for a periodic rental or lease payment. The subsector includes two main types of establishments: (1) those that are engaged in renting consumer goods and equipment and (2) those that are engaged in leasing machinery and equipment often used for business operations. The first type typically operates from a retail-like or storefront facility and maintains inventories of goods that are rented for short periods of time. The latter type typically does not operate from retail-like locations or maintain inventories, and offers longer-term leases. These establishments work directly with clients to enable them to acquire the use of equipment on a lease basis, or they work with equipment vendors or dealers to support the marketing of equipment to their customers under lease arrangements. Equipment lessors generally structure lease contracts to meet the specialized needs of their clients and use their remarketing expertise to find other users for previously leased equipment. Establishments that provide operating and capital (i.e., finance) leases are included in this subsector.

Repair: Any minor change to a property that is not construction, removal, demolition or alteration and that does not change exterior architectural appearance.

Residence: A house, apartment, mobile home, boardinghouse or rooming house, duplex, or other multifamily housing, for human dwelling, or any property zoned therefore.

Residential Build-To-Rent: A single-family residential community in which 80% or more of the units are occupied by tenants rather than owners.

Residential Business: An occupation or business which is conducted entirely within a dwelling, or customary accessory building, is carried on by the occupant(s) of the dwelling, is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for residential dwelling purposes, and which can only be conducted subject to approval of a Land Use Permit by the Board of Commissioners subject to meeting the standards in Section 230-50.

Residential Industrialized Building: An industrialized building that is a dwelling unit designed and constructed in compliance with the Georgia State Minimum Standard One and Two Family Dwelling Code which is wholly or in substantial part, made, fabricated, formed, or assembled in a manufacturing facility and cannot be inspected at the installation site without disassembly, damage to, or destruction thereof. Any such structure shall not contain a permanent metal chassis and shall be affixed to permanent load-bearing foundation. The term shall not include manufactured homes as defined by the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. Section 5401, et seq.

Resin, Synthetic Rubber, and Artificial and Synthetic Fibers and Filaments Manufacturing (3252): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in one of the following:

Reupholstery and Furniture Repair (811420): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) reupholstering furniture; (2) refinishing furniture; (3) repairing furniture; and (4) repairing and restoring furniture.

Right-of-Way: The real property owned and controlled by a governmental agency for maintaining public infrastructure, including streets, sidewalks, pathways, mass transit rail lines, drainage ditches and structures, shoulders, traffic control devices, and vegetative buffers. The width of the right-of-way outside the pavement of any given street or road can be determined by the County Public Works department.

Rural Business: An occupation or business which is conducted within a dwelling, an accessory structure, or outside, and which is carried on by a resident of the property, and which is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the property for the residential dwelling purposes, and which can only be conducted subject to approval of a Land Use Permit by the Board of Commissioners. Rural businesses may be less restrictive than a residential business in regard to access by the public, size, visibility, number of employees, and types of businesses. Rural businesses are subject to standards set forth in Section 230-50.

RV (Recreational Vehicle) Parks and Campgrounds (721211): This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating sites to accommodate campers and their equipment, including tents, tent trailers, travel trailers, and RVs (recreational vehicles). These establishments may provide access to facilities, such as washrooms, laundry rooms, recreation halls, playgrounds, stores, and snack bars.

Safe Exchange Zones: Designated areas within a community that are under 24 hour video surveillance at which an individual can conduct child custody exchanges, face to face online sales, or any other meeting where the individual feels the need for recorded video surveillance.

Sawmills (321113): This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in sawing dimension lumber, boards, beams, timbers, poles, ties, shingles, shakes, siding, and wood chips from logs or bolts. Sawmills may plane the rough lumber that they make with a planing machine to achieve smoothness and uniformity of size.

Schools and Instruction, Other (6116): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in offering or providing instruction (except academic schools, colleges, and universities;

and business, computer, management, technical, or trade instruction). Instruction may be provided in diverse settings, such as the establishment’s or client’s training facilities, educational institutions, the workplace, or the home, and through diverse means, such as correspondence, television, the Internet, or other electronic and distance-learning methods. The training provided by these establishments may include the use of simulators and simulation methods.

Scientific Research and Development Services (5417): This industry group comprises establishments engaged in conducting original investigation undertaken on a systematic basis to gain new knowledge (research) and/or the application of research findings or other scientific knowledge for the creation of new or significantly improved products or processes (experimental development). Techniques may include modeling and simulation. The industries within this industry group are defined on the basis of the domain of research; that is, on the scientific expertise of the establishment.

Self-service Car Wash: A commercial car wash where the customers wash their cars themselves with spray wands and brushes. (Ord. 23-04, 3/14/23)

Septic Tank: An underground cavity with watertight walls into which flows the effluent of sanitary water closets and from which effluent does not come to the surface of the ground.

Sexually Oriented Business: An adult bookstore or adult video store, an adult cabaret, an adult motion picture theater, an explicit media outlet, a sexual device shop, or a sexual encounter center.

Shared Workspaces/Co-working Spaces: A facilitated environment which contains desks or other workspaces and facilities and is used by a recognized membership who share the site in order to interact and collaborate with each other. These spaces may or may not be occupied by individuals working for the same company or the same project at the same time.

Shopping Center: A group of commercial establishments, planned, developed, owned and managed as a unit, with off-street parking provided on the property and related in its location, size and type of shops to the trade area which the unit serves.

Silviculture: A branch of forestry which deals with the establishment, development, care and reproduction of stands of timber.

Slope: A degree of deviation of surface from the horizontal usually expressed in percent or degree.

Small Wireless Facility: Radio transceivers; surface wave couplers; antennas; coaxial, fiber optic, or other cabling; power supply; backup batteries; and comparable and associated equipment, regardless of technological configuration, at a fixed location or fixed locations that enable communication or surface wave communication between user equipment and a communications network and that meet both of the following qualifications:

Such term shall not include a pole, decorative pole, or support structure on, under, or within which the equipment is located or collocated or to which the equipment is attached and shall not include any wireline backhaul facilities or coaxial, fiber optic, or other cabling that is between small wireless facilities, poles, decorative poles, or support structures or that is not otherwise immediately adjacent to or directly associated with a particular antenna.

Small Outdoor Entertainment Venue: An area and/or amphitheater with a stage for weekend musical or other non-sexually oriented business performances not to exceed ten performers for less than 250 patrons.

Soffit: The underside of an architectural structure such as an arch, a balcony, or overhanging eaves.

Software Publishers (5132): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in software publishing. Establishments in this industry carry out operations necessary for producing and distributing computer software, such as designing, providing documentation, assisting in installation, and providing support services to software purchasers. These establishments may design, develop, and publish, or publish only. These establishments may publish and distribute software through subscriptions and/or downloads. (Ord. 25-06, 9/9/25)

Solar Power Electric Generation (221114): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating solar electric power generation facilities. These facilities use energy from the sun to produce electric energy. The electric energy produced in these establishments is provided to electric power transmission systems or to electric power distribution systems.

Special Exception Use: A use that, owing to some special characteristics attendant to its operation or installation, is permitted in a district subject to review and sign off by the zoning administrator or his or her designee that the site-specific requirements for maintaining such special exception use are met, and subject to special requirements, as set forth in the specific zoning district section. The Zoning Administrator or his or her designee shall maintain a written record of such review and sign off, which shall be a public record.

Special Use Permit: A use permitted in a particular zoning district upon approval by the Board of Commissioners in accordance with provisions of this Ordinance.

Specialty Food Retailers (4452): This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing specialized lines of food.

Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Retailers (459): Industries in the Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores subsector are engaged in retailing and providing expertise on the use of sporting equipment or supplies for other specific leisure activities, such as needlework and musical instruments. Book stores are also included in this subsector.

Storage Yard: The storage of materials outside of a structure other than fencing, either as an accessory or principal use. (Ord. 23-07, 6/13/23)

Story: That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there is no floor above it, the space between such floor and the ceiling above it. A basement shall be counted as a story if its ceiling is over six feet above the average level of the finished ground surface adjoining exterior walls of such story, or if it is used for business or dwelling purposes.

Street: A way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as an avenue, road, boulevard, highway, expressway, lane, alley or other way.

Street, Alley: A minor way, public or private, used for service access to the back or side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.

Street, Cul-de-sac: A minor street having one end open to traffic and the other end terminated with a turnaround radius, i.e. circle for turning around at the end.

Street, Boulevard: A divided street designed to handle traffic volumes in excess of normal neighborhood traffic generation, that is configured as a divided street with one or two lanes of traffic in each direction separated by a raised median. Boulevards shall have no direct driveway connectivity.

Street, Dead End: A stub street in a subdivision which may at a later time be continued into another portion of the subdivision.

Street, Interstate: A street shown on the GDOT Functional Classification Application (https://itos.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=962a2591f91a4303aeafe016ba 8db96b) which provides divided highways with full control of access, offering the highest level of mobility.

Street, Local: A street shown on the GDOT Functional Classification Application (https://itos.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=962a2591f91a4303aeafe016ba 8db96b) which provides access to residential and non-residential developments, Street, Major Collector: A street shown on the GDOT Functional Classification Application (https://itos.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=962a2591f91a4303aeafe016ba 8db96b) which provides collection and distribution of traffic between minor collectors or local roads and arterial streets.

Street, Minor Collector: A street shown on the GDOT Functional Classification Application (https://itos.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=962a2591f91a4303aeafe016ba 8db96b) which provides collection of traffic from surrounding local roads to permit convenient movement of traffic.

Street, Principal Arterial: A street shown on the GDOT Functional Classification Application (https://itos.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=962a2591f91a4303aeafe016ba 8db96b) which provides primary function of efficient movement of through traffic between and around areas of a City or County often with limited controlled access.

Street, Residential: A street which provides circulation and access to abutting property in residential areas.

Streetscape: All physical elements that may be viewed along a street.

Street Fairs: Temporary provision of games, eating and drinking facilities, live entertainment, or similar, temporary activities not requiring the use of roofed structures.

Street Furniture and Tree Planting Zone: The portion of a continuous sidewalk located immediately adjacent to the curb reserved for the placement of street trees and street furniture including utility-and-light poles, waste-receptacles, fire hydrants, traffic signs, traffic control boxes, newspaper boxes, transit shelters, bicycle racks, seating and similar elements in a manner that does not obstruct pedestrian access or motorist visibility. Such elements, where installed, shall be a type specified by the manager of the Community Development Department in accordance with uniform design standards utilized by the manager for placement of such objects in the public right-of-way.

Substantial Progress: The documented installation of physical project improvements valued at 50% or more of the total project cost. Physical improvements include, but are not limited to the installation of utilities, stormwater facilities, roadways, construction of structures, or renovation of existing structures. Total project cost may be confined to the phase of a project represented on an approved site plan.

Supermarkets and other Grocery Retailers (except Convenience Retailers): This industry comprises establishments generally known as supermarkets and other grocery retailers (except convenience retailers) primarily engaged in retailing a general line of food, such as canned and frozen foods; fresh fruits and vegetables; and fresh and prepared meats, fish, and poultry.

Included in this industry are delicatessen-type establishments primarily engaged in retailing a general line of food. (Ord. 24-02, 02/13/24)

Support Activities for Rail Transportation (488210): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing specialized services for railroad transportation including servicing, routine repairing (except factory conversion, overhaul, or rebuilding of rolling stock), and maintaining rail cars; loading and unloading rail cars; and operating independent terminals.

Taxi Services (485310): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing passenger transportation by automobile or van, not operated over regular routes and on regular schedules. Establishments of taxicab owner/operators, taxicab fleet operators, or taxicab organizations are included in this industry.

Technical and Trade Schools (6115). This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in offering courses in office procedures and secretarial and stenographic skills and may offer courses in basic office skills, such as word processing. In addition, these establishments may offer such classes as office machine operation, reception, communications, and other skills designed for individuals pursuing a clerical or secretarial career. Instruction may be provided in diverse settings, such as the establishment's or client's training facilities, educational institutions, the workplace, or the home, and through diverse means, such as correspondence, television, the Internet, or other electronic and distance-learning methods. The training provided by these establishments may include the use of simulators and simulation methods.

Telecommunications (517): Industries in the Telecommunications subsector group establishments that provide telecommunications and the services related to that activity (e.g., telephony, including Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP); cable and satellite television distribution services; Internet access; telecommunications reselling services). The Telecommunications subsector is primarily engaged in operating and/or providing access to facilities for the transmission of voice, data, text, sound, and video. Transmission facilities may be based on a single technology or a combination of technologies. (Ord. 25-06, 9/9/25)

Telephone Call Centers (56142): This industry comprises (1) establishments primarily engaged in answering telephone calls and relaying messages and (2) establishments primarily engaged in providing telemarketing services, such as promoting products or services by telephone; taking orders by telephone, facsimile, email, or other communication modes; and soliciting contributions or providing information by telephone. Telephone call centers provide these services on behalf of clients and do not own the products or provide the services that they are representing, or they serve other establishments of the same enterprise.

Temporary Impound Lot: An establishment used for the short-term storage of damaged or confiscated vehicles.

Tent: A temporary or permanent structure having a roof and/or walls of fabric.

Textile Mills (313): Industries in the Textile Mills subsector group establishments that transform a basic fiber (natural or synthetic) into a product, such as yarn or fabric that is further manufactured into usable items, such as apparel, sheets, towels, and textile bags for individual or industrial consumption. The further manufacturing may be performed in the same establishment and classified in this subsector, or it may be performed at a separate establishment and be classified elsewhere in the Manufacturing sector. (Ord. 23-07, 6/13/23)

Theater Companies and Dinner Theaters (711110): This industry comprises (1) companies, groups, or theaters primarily engaged in producing the following live theatrical presentations:

musicals; operas; plays; and comedy, improvisational, mime, and puppet shows and (2) establishments, commonly known as dinner theaters, engaged in producing live theatrical productions and in providing food and beverages for consumption on the premises. Theater groups or companies may or may not operate their own theater or other facility for staging their shows.

Tobacco, Electronic Cigarette, and Other Smoking Supplies Retailers (459991): This U.S.

industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing cigarettes, cigars, tobacco, pipes, and other smokers' supplies.

Topography: The physical land surface relief describing the terrain elevation and slope.

Traditional-Style: Traditional-style houses mix various elements drawn from colonial, farmhouse and neoclassical styles. They are typically two stories in height, have symmetrically placed windows, simple rooflines, overhanging eaves, front-facing gables, large covered porches supported by columns and use building materials such as brick, wood, stucco and stone.

Traffic Impact Analysis: A document prepared by traffic engineer licensed by the State of Georgia that assess the potential effects of a proposed development on the surrounding roadway network for developments with significant anticipated trip increases in compliance with Section

Traffic Memo: A document prepared by traffic engineer licensed by the State of Georgia that assess the potential effects of a proposed development on the surrounding roadway network for developments with limited anticipated trip increases in compliance with Section 280-140. (Ord. 25-04, 5/13/25)

Trailer, Camping: Any portable structure or vehicle designed for highway travel which is used or intended to be used for either living, sleeping, cooking or eating purposes, and which does not include all of the following facilities: a flush water closet, a lavatory, a bath or shower, and kitchen sink.

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing (336999): This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing transportation equipment (except motor vehicles, motor vehicle parts, boats, ships, railroad rolling stock, aerospace products, motorcycles, bicycles, armored vehicles and tanks).

Tree: Any living, self-supporting, woody perennial plant which normally obtains a trunk diameter of at least two inches and a height of at least ten feet and typically has one main stem or trunk and many branches.

Truck Stops: A facility used to serve the trucking industry by providing a location for rest and refueling. The inherent and allowable uses of a truck stop include separate fuel islands with high flow pumps and areas for truck parking. In addition, truck stops may also include restaurants, service/repair facilities for trucks and/or trailers, on-site shower facilities, on-site laundry facilities, overnight stay accommodations, on-site truck wash, and/or on-site truck scales. (Ord. 24-02, 02/13/24)

Truck Transportation (484): Industries in the Truck Transportation subsector provide over-the-road transportation of cargo using motor vehicles, such as trucks and tractor trailers. The subsector is subdivided into general freight trucking and specialized freight trucking. This distinction reflects differences in equipment used, type of load carried, scheduling, terminal, and other networking services. General freight transportation establishments handle a wide variety of general commodities, generally palletized, and transported in a container or van trailer.

Specialized freight transportation is the transportation of cargo that, because of size, weight, shape, or other inherent characteristics, requires specialized equipment for transportation.

Trucking Terminals, Independently Operated (488490): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing services (except motor vehicle towing) to road network users.

Understory Tree: The layers of the forest canopy that exist beneath the overstory; a tree or tree species with a crown that exists in or has the potential to reach only to the lower to middle layers of the forest canopy- usually under 40 feet in maximum height. (Ord. 22-14, 12/13/22)

Used Merchandise Retailers (except Flea Markets) (459510): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing used merchandise, antiques, and secondhand goods (except motor vehicles, such as automobiles, RVs, motorcycles, and boats; motor vehicle parts; tires; and mobile homes).

Utilities: Public or private water or sewer piping systems, water or sewer pumping stations, electric power lines, fuel pipelines, telephone lines, roads, driveways, bridges, river/lake access facilities, storm water systems and railroads.

Variance: A modification of the literal provisions of this ordinance which the Zoning Board of Appeals is permitted to grant when strict enforcement of said provisions would cause undue hardship owing to circumstances unique to the individual property on which the variance is sought.

Virtual Kitchens: A food service establishment with minimal on-site work space, that delivers food directly to patrons. Virtual kitchen establishments have a kitchen on-site, no patron seating available on-site may or may not have space on-site dedicated to facilitating deliveries (management office, administrative office, break room, etc…).

Waste Treatment and Disposal (56221): This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) operating waste treatment or disposal facilities (except sewer systems or sewage treatment facilities) or (2) the combined activity of collecting and/or hauling of waste materials within a local area and operating waste treatment or disposal facilities. Waste combustors or incinerators (including those that may produce byproducts, such as electricity), solid waste landfills, and compost dumps are included in this industry.

Water, Potable: Any water which, according to recognized standards, is safe for human consumption.

Water Supply Watershed: The drainage area (watershed) of lands upstream of a governmentally-owned public drinking water intake or water supply reservoir.

Wine: Any alcoholic beverage containing not more than 21 percent alcohol made from fruits, berries, or grapes either by natural fermentation or by natural fermentation with brandy added.

The term "wine" includes, but is not limited to, all sparkling wines, champagnes, combinations of such beverages, vermouths, special natural wines, rectified wines, and like products. The term "wine" does not include cooking wine mixed with salt or other ingredients so as to render it unfit for human consumption as a beverage. A liquid shall first be deemed to be a wine at the point in the manufacturing process when it conforms to the definition of wine contained in this section.

Yard: An open space on the same lot with a principal building open, unoccupied, and unobstructed by buildings or structures from ground to sky except where encroachments and accessory buildings are expressly permitted.

Yard, Front: An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a principal building, extending the full width of the lot, and situated between the street and the front line of the building projected to the side lines of the lot.

Yard, Rear: An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a principal building, extending the full width of the lot and situated between the rear line of the lot and the rear line of the building projected to side lines of the lot.

Yard, Side: An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a principal building, situated between the building and the side lot line of the lot and extending from the front yard to the rear yard. Any lot line not a rear line or a front line shall be deemed a side line.

Zoning Administrator: The Director of the Community Development Department or his/her designated representative.

Zoning Board of Appeals: The Zoning Board of Appeals of Paulding County, Georgia.

Zoning District: Refers to the zoning designation of parcels of land as per Chapter 210 of this UDO.

Zoning Ordinance: The zoning regulations enacted by the Board of Commissioners and set forth in the UDO.

Applicant: A person, either the owner or the bona fide representative of the owner of land or structures governed by these regulations, who seeks authority to use, develop, construct upon or otherwise enjoy the use of property through any of these procedures established under these regulations.

As-built Survey: A survey or other drawing based on a field survey which shows existing features or components and horizontal or vertical information (grades or location of improvements) as constructed.

Beginning point of a street or private drive: The end of a street or private drive designated as the beginning point as based on the street and private drive directionality rules.

Block: A piece or parcel of land entirely surrounded by public streets.

Board of Commissioners: The Board of Commissioners of Paulding County, Georgia.

Buffer (General): A barrier which is created by the use of evergreen trees or other acceptable plant or vegetative material alone or in combination with berms, fencing, or walls used to physically separate or screen one use or property from another so as to visually shield or block noise, lights, or dissimilar uses.

Buildable Lot of Record: A lot or parcel of land that existed as a single parcel of ownership, recorded as such in its entirety and present boundaries with the Clerk to Superior Court prior to June 2, 1970, or which is shown in its entirety and present boundaries on a final plat or exemption plat duly approved under these or any previously applicable regulations providing for the subdivision of land in Paulding County and recorded with the Clerk to Superior Court of Paulding County.

Building Setback Line: A line across a lot parallel to a street right-of-way or other property line establishing the minimum open space to be provided between any principal building and the street or other property line. All building setback lines shall be at least as restrictive as the corresponding minimum yard setbacks required in the International Residential Code as it pertains to Fire-Resistant Construction (See Section R302 Table R302.1(1) Exterior Walls) and Title 2: Zoning Ordinance. On corner lots, the terms of Section 240-70 shall apply.

Certificate of Completion (CC): Final approval by the Community Development Department for the use of a building not intended for immediate occupancy or to an existing building, which already possesses a Certificate of Occupancy, but has undergone improvements or a remodel, where the use or classification of the building has not changed for which a building permit was issued.

Certificate of Occupancy (CO): Final approval by the Community Development Department for the use or occupancy of a structure for which a building permit was issued.

Certificate of Occupancy, Limited: Approval by the Community Development Department for the use of a model home for sales and marketing purposes.

Certificate of Occupancy, Temporary: Approval by the Community Development Department issued before the completion of the entire work covered by the permit, provided that such portion or portions may be occupied safely. The temporary certificate of occupancy shall be issued in 30-day increments.

Clearing: The removal of trees or other vegetation, but not including grubbing activities.

Cluster Box Unit (CBU): A freestanding, pedestal-mounted box that consists of multiple mailbox compartments and parcel lockers that can lock individually. The United States Postal Service

Complex: A complex shall represent any grouping of buildings, with or without units, that is assigned a single structure (or complex) number to identify the entire grouping. A complex could represent apartments, an office park, a retail center or some other type of property.

Comprehensive Plan: Any plan by a county or municipality covering such county or municipality or any plan by a regional commission covering the center’s region proposed or prepared pursuant to the minimum standards and procedures for preparation of comprehensive plans and for implementation of comprehensive plans, established by the Department of Community Affairs in accordance with O.C.G.A § 50-8-1 and Chapter 110-12-1 of the Rules of the Georgia Department of Community Affairs.

Concept Plan: A drawing that shows the overall concept of a proposed development, and that may include lots and streets in a subdivision or the general location of buildings and improvements for a multi-family or nonresidential project, and that may be drawn to approximate dimensions in a freehand style. These drawings are for information purposes only and shall not be formally reviewed or approved by the county.

Condominium: A building, or group of buildings, in which dwelling units or floor area are owned individually, and the structure, common areas and facilities are owned by all the owners on a proportional, undivided basis, subject to all applicable provisions of Georgia law.

Construction Plans: A set of plans for development of a property that must be formally submitted to the Plan Review Committee for review and approval. Such plans shall include, but not be limited to, grading plans, soil erosion and sediment control plans, hydrology studies, transportation plans, water plans, sanitary sewerage plans, on-site sewer plans and public safety plans.

County. Unless otherwise stated, the term "county" shall mean Paulding County, Georgia.

Crosswalk: Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.

Cut: A portion of land surface or area from which earth has been removed by excavation; also, the depth below original ground surface to excavated surface.

Developer: Any person, individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, estate, trust, or any other group or combination acting as a unit who directs the undertaking or proposes to undertake development activities as herein defined, whether the development involves the subdivision of the land for sale to individual users, the construction of buildings or other improvements on a single land ownership, or both.

Development (Noun): Any project or group of related projects constructed or planned for construction on a single parcel or on contiguous parcels under single ownership.

Development (Verb): All activities associated with the conversion of land or the expansion or replacement of an existing use to any new use intended for human operation, occupancy or habitation, other than for agricultural purposes devoted strictly to the cultivation of the land, dairying or animal husbandry. Such activities include land disturbance (clearing and grubbing the land of vegetation and stumps, and grading) and the construction of improvements such as but not limited to streets, driveways or parking areas, water or sewer mains, stormwater drainage facilities, sidewalks or other structures permanently placed on or in the property.

Development Permit: A permit issued by the Community Development Department authorizing clearing, grubbing, grading and construction of storm drainage facilities, access drives, streets, parking or other improvements exclusive of buildings.

Drainage Improvements: Those facilities and structures intended to control and direct the passage of stormwater and other surface water flows from and across a property; including, but not limited to, swales and ditches, cross drains and other piping systems, catch basins, detention ponds and velocity dissipation devices.

Driveway: A vehicular access way in private ownership, other than a private street, which provides access primarily to only one property, or to no more than two single-family detached residences.

Dwelling: Any building that contains one or two 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 Unit: A single unit providing complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.

Easement: A grant of one or more of the property rights by the property owner to and/or for use by the public, a corporation, or another person or entity, and recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court.

Fee Simple: A form of property ownership in which the buildings and surrounding lands are owned by the same person.

Fill: A portion of land surface to which soil or other solid material has been added; the depth above the original ground.

Final Plat: A finished drawing or drawings of the subdivision showing completely and accurately all legal and engineering information and certification necessary for recording. The finished drawing or drawings may consist of one or more drawings of the subdivision which together form the final plat, all of which must comply with the requirements of this UDO.

Fire Flow: The minimum volume flow rate of water established by the Water System with a minimum residual pressure of 20 psi.

Floor: The top surface of an enclosed area in a building (including basement), i.e., top of slab in concrete slab construction or top of wood flooring in wood frame construction. The term does not include the floor of a garage used solely for parking vehicles.

Grading: The movement of earth by mechanical means to alter the gross topographic features, including elevation and slope, to prepare a site for final grading and construction of facilities, including structures, parking lots, and roads.

Grading Permit: An official authorization issued by the Community Development Department permitting grading of a site, including Erosion and Sedimentation Control BMP’s.

Ground Elevation: The original elevation of the ground surface prior to cutting or filling.

Grubbing: The removal of stumps or roots from a property.

House Location Plan (HLP): A drawing showing lot information and all improvements, as identified in Section 320-20.02.A(b).

Land Disturbing Activity: Any activity which may result in soil erosion from and the movement of sediments into waters or onto lands within the state, including, but not limited to, clearing, dredging, grading, excavating, transporting, and filling of land but not including agricultural practices as described in the Paulding County Soil Erosion, Sedimentation and Pollution Control Ordinance.

Land Disturbance Permit: An official authorization issued by the Community Development Department, allowing defoliation or alteration of a site or the commencement of any construction activities, including but not limited to, clearing, grubbing, dredging, grading, excavating, transporting, and filling of land, but not including agricultural operations as defined in O.C.G.A.

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Lot: A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by plat, subdivision or as otherwise permitted by law, to be separately owned, used, developed or built upon; also, a parcel of land, whether or not platted, in single ownership, and not divided by a street.

Lot, Corner: A lot fronting on two streets at their intersection. When the frontage of one street exceeds the frontage of the other, the one with the least frontage shall be deemed the front of the lot. The side yard setback for a corner lot shall be 25 feet in all zoning districts except where otherwise noted in Title 2: Zoning Ordinance.

Lot Depth: The average horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines, measured in the general direction of the side lot lines.

Lot, Double Frontage: Any lot, other than a corner lot, that has frontage on two streets.

Lot Frontage: The distance for which the front property line of the lot and the street line are coincident.

Lot Line: A line dividing one lot from another, or from a street or any public-place.

Lot of Record: A lot which is part of a lawfully created subdivision, a plat of which has been recorded in the records of the Clerk of Superior Court of Paulding County; or a parcel of land, the deed of which has been recorded in the same office as of the effective date of this ordinance.

Lot Width: The distance between side lot lines measured at the front building line.

Major Thoroughfare: Any public street, existing or proposed, which is shown in the comprehensive plan and roadway classification map as an arterial or major collector.

Major Thoroughfare Plan: An engineered or designed comprehensive plan or program of arterial, collector and minor streets and roads for all or a portion of the County. Paulding County utilizes the GDOT State Functional Classification Map for Paulding County which is found at the following link:

https://itos.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=962a2591f91a4303aeafe016ba 8db96b Mass Grading: The movement or redistribution of large quantities of earth over large areas involving more than one contiguous lot or more than one phase of a common plan of development occurring at one time for the purpose of balancing dirt and establishing padded lots.

Master Plan: A policy document that guides the physical development of a designated area or community.

Mean Sea Level (MSL): The average height of the sea for all stages of the tide. It is used as a reference for establishing various elevations within the floodplain. For purposes of these regulations, the term is synonymous with National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD).

National Geodetic Vertical Data (NGVD): As corrected in 1929, a vertical control used as a reference for establishing varying elevations within the floodplain.

Overstory Tree: The uppermost layer of the forest canopy; a tree or tree species with a crown that exists in, or has the potential to reach, the uppermost portion of the forest canopy. Usually over 40 feet in maximum height.

Private Easement: An easement laid out by a private owner or owners and maintained at their expense, dedicated for use by the owners for ingress and egress to their residence(s), but not accepted as public right-of-way. The street suffix for a private easement is “Path”.

Pedestrian Way: A right-of-way within a block dedicated to public use, intended primarily for pedestrians and from which motor propelled vehicles are excluded.

Plat: A map, plan, or layout, to scale of the lot, section, sub-division or development indicating the location and boundaries of properties, and prepared by a registered land surveyor. Should the plat be recorded, it shall meet the minimum State of Georgia Plat Act requirements, and as may be amended from time to time.

Preliminary Plat: A drawing that shows the perimeter boundary, topography, lot arrangements, street layout and other features of a proposed subdivision, as specified in Section 320-10.03 of these regulations.

Private Dwelling: For the purpose of these regulations, a private dwelling is a single-family or duplex residence located on any property that is not part of a platted subdivision.

Professional Engineer: means a Professional Engineer that has been licensed by the State of Georgia, having met the provisions thereof.

Professional Landscape Architect: means a Professional Landscape Architect that has been licensed by the State of Georgia, having met the conditions therein.

Project Access Improvement: Any improvement or facility that is planned and designed to provide service or access for a particular project and that is necessary for the use, safety and convenience of the occupants or users of the project and is not a system improvement. A project access improvement includes, but is not limited to: pedestrian access improvements; site driveways; new streets; median cuts; right turn lanes; left turn lanes; acceleration lanes;

deceleration lanes; traffic control measures made necessary to serve site driveways or new streets; intersection improvements whose primary purpose at the time of construction is to provide access to the project; and necessary right-of-way dedications required for any project access improvement.

Protection Area: All land which falls outside the buildable area of a parcel, all areas of the parcel required to remain open space, the dripline area beneath a tree or clusters of trees to be retained, and/or all areas required as landscaping strips or buffers according to the provisions of the Paulding County Zoning Ordinance, or conditions of zoning approval.

Pruning: The act to trim damaged, diseased, or dead branches or limbs or otherwise cut branches or limbs in a way that improves its health, productivity, or appearance, but does not harm the tree or unnecessarily reduce the overall size of the tree so as to retain or enhance the symmetrical appearance or natural shape of the tree or shrub.

Queuing Analysis: A document prepared by a traffic engineer licensed by the State of Georgia that assesses development where there is potential to generate traffic volumes, congestion delays and could impact operations of the existing street network in compliance with Chapter 500.

Residential Street Classification: Streets are hereby classified as follows:

S2—Streets that serve from 0 to 120 dwelling units S3—Streets that serve from 121 to 250 dwelling units Any street serving more than 250 dwelling units is not classified as a residential street. For the purpose of the above shown residential street classification, the count of the number of dwelling units served by a street shall begin at its intersection with another street and continue for its duration throughout the remainder of the development, unless otherwise specified by the Plan Review Committee.

Roadway: The paved portion of a street from back of curb to back of curb (or edge to edge of pavement for streets not having curbs) but excluding driveway aprons, bridges, and large single and multi-cell culverts that in an hydrologic sense can be considered to function as a bridge.

Service Drive: A minor, permanent, private service-way which is used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side for commercial properties otherwise abutting on a street.

Sheet Flow: Diffused water running overland to a defined watercourse.

Shrub: A woody plant or bush of relatively low height (2-6 feet) distinguished from a tree by having several stems rather than a single trunk.

Significant Tree: Any existing, healthy, living tree 12 inches DBH or greater in size.

Site Work: Development activity to prepare a property for construction of buildings or finished structures, including clearing, grubbing, grading, drainage and installation of soil sedimentation and erosion control facilities.

Slope: The ratio of elevation change to horizontal distance, expressed as a percentage. Slope is computed by dividing the vertical distance ("rise") by the horizontal distance ("run").

Standard Design Specifications: Standards and specifications in use by the County which shall apply to the physical improvements required to be provided and installed by a subdivider in a subdivision and found in Appendix 4.0.

State Waters: As defined by Georgia Erosion Sedimentation Act, O.C.G.A. § 12-7-1 et seq., any and all rivers, streams, creeks, branches, lakes, reservoirs, ponds, drainage systems, springs, wells, and other bodies of surface or subsurface water, natural or artificial, lying within or forming a part of the boundaries of the state which are not entirely confined and retained completely upon the property of a single individual, partnership, or corporation.

Steep Slope: Any slope with a minimum rise of ten feet that has a slope percentage greater than 33 percent (ten-foot vertical "rise" over a 30-foot horizontal "run").

Street: A way for vehicular traffic whether designated as an avenue, road, boulevard, highway, alley, or other way.

Street, Alley: A minor way, private, used for service access to the back or side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.

Street, Cul-de-sac: A minor street having one end open to traffic and the other end terminated with a turnaround radius, i.e. circle for turning around at the end.

Street, Interstate: A street shown on the GDOT Functional Classification Application (https://itos.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=962a2591f91a4303aeafe016ba8db96b) which provides divided highways with full control of access, offering the highest level of mobility.

Street, Local: A street shown on the GDOT Functional Classification Application (https://itos.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=962a2591f91a4303aeafe016ba8db96b) which provides access to residential and non-residential developments.

Street, Local Nonresidential: A surface street intended primarily to provide local access to adjacent existing or planned commercial or industrial development and not for through traffic.

Street, Local Residential: A surface street intended primarily to provide local access to adjacent residential development and not for through traffic (see also, "Residential Street Classification").

Street, Major Collector: A street shown on the GDOT Functional Classification Application (https://itos.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=962a2591f91a4303aeafe016ba8db96b) which provides collection and distribution of traffic between minor collectors or local roads and arterial streets.

Street, Minor Collector: A street shown on the GDOT Functional Classification Application (https://itos.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=962a2591f91a4303aeafe016ba8db96b) which provides collection of traffic from surrounding local roads to higher classification roadways to permit convenient movement of traffic.

Street, Neighborhood Collector: A divided street designed to handle traffic volumes in excess of normal residential street generation, with one or more than one lane of traffic in each direction separated by a raised median. Neighborhood Collectors shall have no direct driveway connectivity.

Street, Private: An access way similar to and having the same function as a public street, providing access to more than one property, but held in private ownership (as distinct from a "driveway").

Street, Public: A right-of-way dedicated to and accepted by Paulding County for vehicular traffic, or over which Paulding County may hold a prescriptive easement for public access, and including designated and numbered U.S. and state highways. For the purposes of these regulations, the term "public street" shall be limited to those which afford or could afford a direct means of vehicular access to abutting property, and exclude limited access roadways which abut a property, but from which direct access may not be allowed under any circumstances.

Street, Residential: A street which provides circulation and access to abutting property in residential areas.

Street Tree: Any tree or shrub land located within the right-of-way along either side of streets or thoroughfares within the county.

Structure: That which is built or constructed.

Structure, Permanent: Any outdoor structure that is fixed in place and unable to be moved about a property.

Subdivider: Any person, individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, estate, trust, or any other group or combination acting as a unit dividing or proposing to divide land so as to constitute a subdivision as herein defined, including an agent of the subdivider.

Subdivision, Legacy. A division of land that is a transaction between immediate family members (parents, children, grandparents, grandchildren, great grandparents, great grandchildren).

Subdivision, Minor. A division of a single-tract or parcel of land into two or more individual tracts of land which involve no new street or roadway.

System Improvement: Any improvement or facility such as utilities, streets, bridges or rights-of-way identified in the comprehensive plan, and any traffic control measures, landscaping or other features to same and is further designed to provide service to the community at large.

Tie point: The point of reference for a boundary survey. Said point of reference shall be an established, monumented position that can be identified or relocated from maps, plats or other documents on public record. Two GPS ties with coordinates shall be required on all final plats.

Timber Harvesting Operations: Notice provided pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 12-6-24 by all persons or firms harvesting standing timber in any unincorporated area of Paulding County for delivery as pulpwood, logs, poles, posts, or wood chips to any woodyard or processing plant located inside or outside the state of Georgia prior to entering onto the property.

Traffic Impact Analysis: A document prepared by traffic engineer licensed by the State of Georgia that assess the potential effects of a proposed development on the surrounding roadway network in compliance with Chapter 500.

Traffic Memo: A document prepared by a traffic engineer licensed by the State of Georgia that assesses the potential effects of a proposed development on the surrounding roadway network for developments with limited anticipated trip increases in compliance with Chapter 500.

Traffic Study: A document prepared by a traffic engineer licensed by the State of Georgia that assesses the surrounding roadway network in compliance with Chapter 500.

Tree: Any living, self-supporting, woody perennial plant which normally obtains a trunk diameter of at least two inches and a height of at least ten feet and typically has one main stem or trunk and many branches.

Variance: A change in the general design of a development but which shall in no way make null the standard design specifications of these Regulations.

Waiver: A request to relinquish or abandon a minimum design requirement specification of these regulations for a proposed development.

Zoning Ordinance: The zoning regulations enacted by the Board of Commissioners and set forth in the UDO.

Management.

Addition: Any walled and roofed expansion to the perimeter or height of a building.

Adjacent: Those areas located within the defined horizontal distance from the future-conditions floodplain boundary that are at or lower in elevation than either four feet above the base flood elevation or one foot above the future-conditions flood elevation, whichever is higher, unless the area is hydraulically independent (meaning absolutely no connection to the flooding source such as through pipes, sewer laterals, down drains, foundation drains, ground seepage, overland flow, gate or valved pipes, excavated and backfilled trenches, etc., with no fill or other manmade barriers creating the separation).

Appeal: A request for a review of the Director or Director’s designee's interpretation of any provision of Chapter 330.

Area of Future-conditions Flood Hazard: The land area that would be inundated by the one-percent-annual-chance flood based on future-conditions hydrology (100-year future-conditions flood).

Area of Shallow Flooding: A designated AO or AH Zone on a community's Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) with a one percent or greater chance of flooding to an average depth of one to three feet where a clearly defined channel does not exist, where the path of flooding is unpredictable and indeterminate, and where velocity flow may be evident. Such flooding is characterized by ponding or sheet flow.

Area of Special Flood Hazard: The land area subject to a one percent or greater chance of flooding in any given year. This includes all floodplain and flood prone areas at or below the base flood elevation designated as Zones A, A1-30, A-99, AE, AO, AH, and AR on a community's Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM).

Base Flood: The flood having a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year, also known as the 100-year flood.

Base Flood Elevation: The highest water surface elevation anticipated at any given point during the base flood.

Basement: That portion of a building having its floor subgrade (below ground level) on all sides.

Building: Has the same meaning as "Structure."

Development: Any manmade change to improved or unimproved real estate including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, clearing, grubbing, grading, paving, any other installation of impervious cover, excavation or drilling operations or storage of equipment or materials.

Elevated Building: A non-basement building which has its lowest elevated floor raised above the ground level by foundation walls, shear walls, posts, piers, pilings, or columns.

Existing Construction: Means any structure for which the "start of construction" commenced before the original Paulding County Floodplain Ordinance dated February 13, 1979.

Existing Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision: A manufactured home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including at a minimum the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads) is completed before the original Paulding County Floodplain Ordinance dated February 13, 1979.

Expansion to an Existing Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision: The preparation of additional sites by the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed, including the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads.

FEMA: Means the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Flood or Flooding: A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from:

Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM): An official map of a community, issued by FEMA, delineating the areas of special flood hazard and/or risk premium zones applicable to the community.

Flood Insurance Study (FIS): The official report by FEMA providing an examination, evaluation and determination of flood hazards and corresponding flood profiles and water surface elevations of the base flood.

Floodplain or Flood-prone Area: Any land area susceptible to flooding.

Floodproofing: Any combination of structural and non-structural additions, changes, or adjustments to structures which reduce or eliminate flood damage to real estate or improved real property, water and sanitary facilities, structures and their contents.

Floodway or Regulatory Floodway: The channel of a stream, river, or other watercourse and the adjacent areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than a designated height.

Functionally Dependent Use: A use which cannot perform its intended purpose unless it is located or carried out in close proximity to water. The term includes only docking facilities, port facilities that are necessary for the loading and unloading of cargo or passengers, and ship building and ship repair facilities, but does not include long-term storage or related manufacturing facilities.

Future Conditions Flood: The flood having a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year based on future-conditions hydrology. Also known as the 100-year future-conditions flood.

Future-conditions Flood Elevation: The highest water surface elevation anticipated at any given location during the future-conditions flood.

Future-conditions Floodplain: Any land area susceptible to flooding by the future-conditions flood.

Future-conditions Hydrology: The flood discharges associated with projected-land-use conditions based on a community's zoning maps, comprehensive land-use plans, and/or watershed study projections, and without consideration of projected future construction of stormwater management (flood detention) structures or projected future hydraulic modifications within a stream or other waterway, such as bridge and culvert construction, fill, and excavation.

Highest Adjacent Grade: The highest natural elevation of the ground surface, prior to construction, adjacent to the proposed foundation of a building.

Department of Interior) or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior as meeting the requirements for individual listing on the National Register;

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Lowest Floor: The lowest floor of the lowest enclosed area, including basement. An unfinished or flood resistant enclosure, usable solely for parking of vehicles, building access or storage in an area other than a basement area, is not considered a building's lowest floor, provided that such enclosure is not built so as to render the structure in violation of other provisions of Chapter 330.

Manufactured Home: A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which is built on a permanent chassis and is designed to be used with or without a permanent foundation when attached to the required utilities. The term includes any structure commonly referred to as a "mobile home" regardless of the date of manufacture. The term also includes parked trailers, travel trailers and similar transportable structures placed on a site for 180 consecutive days or longer and intended to be improved property. The term does not include a "recreational vehicle."

Mean Sea Level: The datum to which base flood elevations shown on a community's flood insurance rate map (FIRM) are referenced. For purposes of Chapter 330, the term is synonymous with National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929 or the North American Vertical Datum

New Construction: Any structure (see definition) for which the "start of construction" commenced after the original Paulding County Floodplain Ordinance dated February 13, 1979 and includes any subsequent improvements to the structure.

New Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision: A manufactured home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including at a minimum, the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads) is completed on or after the original Paulding County Floodplain Ordinance dated February 13, 1979.

Owner: The legal or beneficial owner of a site, including but not limited to, a mortgagee or vendee in possession, receiver, executor, trustee, lessee or other person, firm or corporation in control of the site.

Permit: The permit issued by the Paulding County Community Development Department to the applicant which is required prior to undertaking any development activity.

Repetitive Loss: Flood related damage sustained by a structure on two separate occasions during a ten-year period for which the cost of repairs at the time of each such flood event, on the average, equals or exceeds 25 percent of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred.

Site: The parcel of land being developed, or the portion thereof on which the development project is located.

Start of Construction: Includes substantial improvement, and means the date the permit was issued, provided the actual start of construction, repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition placement, or other improvement was within 180 days of the permit date. The actual start means either the first placement of permanent construction of the structure on a site, such as the pouring of slabs or footings, the installation of piles, the construction of columns, or any work beyond the stage of excavation; or the placement of a manufactured home on a foundation. Permanent construction does not include initial land preparation, such as clearing, grading and filling; nor does it include the installation of streets and/or walkways; nor does it include excavation for a basement, footings, piers or foundations or the erection of temporary forms; nor does it include the installation on the property of accessory buildings, such as garages or sheds not occupied as dwelling units or part of the main structure. For a substantial improvement, the actual start of construction means the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor, or other structural part of a building, whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the building.

Structure: A walled and roofed building (including a gas or liquid storage tank), that is principally above ground, or a manufactured home.

Subdivision: The division of a tract or parcel of land resulting in one or more new lots or building sites for the purpose, whether immediately or in the future, of sale, other transfer of ownership or land development, and includes divisions of land resulting from or made in connection with the layout or development of a new street or roadway or a change in an existing street or roadway.

Substantial Damage: Means damage of any origin sustained by a structure whereby the cost of restoring the structure to its before damaged condition would equal or exceed 50 percent of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred. This term also includes repetitive loss.

Substantial Improvement: Any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, or other improvement to a structure, taking place during a 10-year period, in which the cumulative cost equals or exceeds 50 percent of the market value of the structure prior to the improvement. The market value of the building means (1) the appraised value of the structure prior to the start of the initial repair or improvement, or (2) in the case of damage, the value of the structure prior to the damage occurring. This term includes structures which have incurred "substantial damage," regardless of the actual repair work performed. The term does not, however, include those improvements of a structure required to comply with existing state or local health, sanitary, or safety code specifications which are the minimum necessary to assure safe living conditions, which have been identified by the Code Enforcement Official. The term does also not include any alteration of a historic structure, provided that the alteration will not preclude the structure’s continued designation as a historic structure.

Substantially Improved Existing Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision: Is where the repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation or improvement of the streets, utilities and pads equals or exceeds 50 percent of the value of the streets, utilities and pads before the repair, reconstruction or improvement commenced.

Variance: A grant of relief from the requirements of Chapter 330.

Violation: The failure of a structure or other development to be fully compliant with the requirements of Chapter 330. A structure or other development without the elevation certificate, other certifications, or other evidence of compliance required in Chapter 330 is presumed to be in violation until such time as that documentation is provided.

Chapter 360, Soil Erosion, Sedimentation and Pollution Control.

Best Management Practices (BMPs): A collection of structural practices and vegetative measures which, when properly designed, installed and maintained, will provide effective erosion and sedimentation control. The term "properly designed" means designed in accordance with the hydraulic design specifications contained in the "Manual for Erosion and Sediment Control in Georgia" specified in O.C.G.A. § 12-7-6 subsection (b), and as may be amended from time to time.

Board: The State Board of Natural Resources.

Buffer: The area of land immediately adjacent to the banks of state waters in its natural state of vegetation, which facilitates the protection of water quality and aquatic habitat.

Certified Personnel: A person who has successfully completed the appropriate certification course approved by the Georgia Soil and Water Conservation Commission.

Coastal Marshlands: Shall have the same meaning as in O.C.G.A. 12-5-282.

Commission: The Georgia Soil and Water Conservation Commission (GSWCC).

CPESC: Certified professional in erosion and sediment control with current certification by EnviroCert, Inc., which is also referred to as CPESC or CPESC, Inc.

Cut: A portion of land surface or area from which earth has been removed or will be removed by excavation; the depth below original ground surface to excavated surface; also known as excavation.

Department: The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

Design Professional: A professional licensed by the State of Georgia in the field of: engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, forestry, geology, or land surveying; or a person that is a certified professional in erosion and sediment control (CPESC) with a current certification by EnviroCert, Inc. Design Professionals shall practice in a manner that complies with applicable Georgia law governing professional licensure.

Director: The Director of the Environmental Protection Division of an authorized representative.

District: The Coosa River Soil and Water Conservation District.

Division: The Environmental Protection Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

Drainage Structure: A device composed of a virtually nonerodible material such as concrete, steel, plastic or other such material that conveys water from one place to another by intercepting the flow and carrying it to a release point for storm-water management, drainage control, or flood control purposes.

Erosion: The process by which land surface is worn away by the action of wind, water, ice or gravity.

Erosion and Sedimentation Control Plan: A plan required by the Erosion and Sedimentation Act, O.C.G.A. Chapter 12-7, that includes, as a minimum, protections at least as stringent as the State General Permit, best management practices, and requirements in Section 360-40.03 of this Chapter.

Fill: A portion of land surface to which soil or other solid material has been added; the depth above the original ground surface or an excavation.

Final Stabilization: All soil disturbing activities at the site have been completed, and that for unpaved areas and areas not covered by permanent structures and areas located outside the waste disposal limits of a landfill cell that has been certified by EPD for waste disposal, 100 percent of the soil surface is uniformly covered in permanent vegetation with a density of 70 percent or greater, or landscaped according to the plan (uniformly covered with landscaping materials in planned landscape areas) or equivalent permanent stabilization measures as defined in the manual (excluding a crop of annual vegetation and seeding of target crop perennials appropriate for the region). Final stabilization applies to each phase of construction.

Finished Grade: The final elevation and contour of the ground after cutting or filling and conforming to the proposed design.

Grading: Altering the shape of ground surfaces to a predetermined condition; this includes stripping, cutting, filling, stockpiling and shaping or any combination thereof and shall include the land in its cut or filled condition.

Ground Elevation: The original elevation of the ground surface prior to cutting or filling.

Land-Disturbing Activity: Scraping, plowing, clearing, dredging, grading, excavating, transporting, or filling of land or placement of any structure or impervious surface, dam, obstruction, or deposit, except that grubbing or ordinary landscape maintenance shall not be considered as a land disturbing activity.

Larger Common Plan of Development or Sale: A contiguous area where multiple separate and distinct construction activities are occurring under one plan of development or sale. For the purposes of this paragraph, "plan" means an announcement; piece of documentation such as a sign, public notice or hearing, sales pitch, advertisement, drawing, permit application, zoning request, or computer design; or physical demarcation such as boundary signs, lot stakes, or surveyor markings, indicating that construction activities may occur on a specific plot.

Local Issuing Authority: The governing authority of any county or municipality which is certified pursuant to subsection (a) O.C.G.A. § 12-7-8.

Metropolitan River Protection Act (MRPA): A state law referenced as O.C.G.A. § 12-5-440 et seq., which addresses environmental and developmental matters in certain metropolitan river corridors and their drainage basins.

Natural Ground Surface: The ground surface in its original state before any grading, excavation or filling.

Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU): Numerical units of measure based upon photometric analytical techniques for measuring the light scattered by finely divided particles of a substance in suspension. This technique is used to estimate the extent of turbidity in water in which colloidally dispersed or suspended particles are present.

Notice of Intent (NOI): A notice of intent form provided by EPD for coverage under the State General Permit.

Notice of Termination (NOT): A notice of termination form provided by EPD to terminate coverage under the State General Permit.

Outfall: The location where stormwater in a discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, leaves a facility or site or, if there is a receiving water on site, becomes a point source discharging into that receiving water.

Permit: The authorization necessary to conduct a land-disturbing activity under the provisions of this Chapter.

Person: Any individual, partnership, firm, association, joint venture, public or private corporation, trust, estate, commission, board, public or private institution, utility, cooperative, state agency, municipality or other political subdivision of the State of Georgia, any interstate body or any other legal entity.

Phase or Phased: Sub-parts or segments of construction projects where the sub-part or segment is constructed and stabilized prior to completing construction activities on the entire construction site.

Project: The entire proposed development project regardless of the size of the area of land to be disturbed.

Properly Designed: Designed in accordance with the design requirements and specifications contained in the "Manual for Erosion and Sediment Control in Georgia" (Manual) published by the Georgia Soil and Water Conservation Commission as of January 1 of the year in which the land-disturbing activity was permitted and amendments to the manual as approved by the Commission up until the date of NOI submittal.

Roadway Drainage Structure: A device such as a bridge, culvert, or ditch, composed of a virtually non-erodible material such as concrete, steel, plastic, or other such material that conveys water under a roadway by intercepting the flow on one side of a traveled way consisting of one or more defined lanes, with or without shoulder areas, and carrying water to a release point on the other side.

Sediment: Solid material, both organic and inorganic, that is in suspension, is being transported, or has been moved from its site of origin by air, water, ice, or gravity as a product of erosion.

Sedimentation: The process by which eroded material is transported and deposited by the action of water, wind, ice or gravity.

Soil and Water Conservation District Approved Plan: An erosion and sedimentation control plan approved in writing by the Coosa River Soil and Water Conservation District.

Stabilization: The process of establishing an enduring soil cover of vegetation by the installation of temporary or permanent structures for the purpose of reducing to a minimum the erosion process and the resultant transport of sediment by wind, water, ice or gravity.

State General Permit: The National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) general permit or permits for stormwater runoff from construction activities as is now in effect or as may be amended or reissued in the future pursuant to the state's authority to implement the same through federal delegation under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C.

Section 1251, et seq., and subsection (f) of Code Section 12-5-30.

State Waters: Any and all rivers, streams, creeks, branches, lakes, reservoirs, ponds, drainage systems, springs, wells, and other bodies of surface or subsurface water, natural or artificial, lying within or forming a part of the boundaries of the Georgia which are not entirely confined and retained completely upon the property of a single individual, partnership, or corporation.

Structural Erosion and Sedimentation Control Practices: Practices for the stabilization of erodible or sediment-producing areas by utilizing the mechanical properties of matter for the purpose of either changing the surface of the land or storing, regulating or disposing of runoff to prevent excessive sediment loss. Examples of structural erosion and sediment control practices are riprap, sediment basins, dikes, level spreaders, waterways or outlets, diversions, grade stabilization structures and sediment traps, etc. Such practices can be found in the publication manual for Erosion and Sediment Control in Georgia.

Trout Streams: All streams or portions of streams within the watershed as designated by the Wildlife Resources Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources under the provisions of the Georgia Water Quality Control Act, O.C.G.A. § 12-5-20, in the rules and regulations for Water Quality Control, Chapter 391-3-6 at www.epd.georgia.gov. Streams designated as primary trout waters are defined as water supporting a self-sustaining population of rainbow, brown or brook trout. Streams designated as secondary trout waters are those in which there is no evidence of natural trout reproduction, but are capable of supporting trout throughout the year. First order trout waters are streams into which no other streams flow except springs.

Vegetative Erosion and Sedimentation Control Measures: Measures for the stabilization of erodible or sediment-producing areas by covering the soil with:

Such measures can be found in the Publication Manual for Erosion and Sediment Control in Georgia.

Watercourse: Any natural or artificial watercourse, stream, river, creek, channel, ditch, canal, conduit, culvert, drain, waterway, gully, ravine, or wash in which water flows either continuously or intermittently and which has a definite channel, bed and banks, and including any area adjacent thereto subject to inundation by reason of overflow or floodwater.

Wetlands: Those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas.

Ordinance.

Board of Commissioners: The Paulding County Board of Commissioners.

Buffer: With respect to a stream, a natural or enhanced vegetated area (established by Section 390-50.01 below), lying adjacent to the stream.

Floodplain: Any land area susceptible to flooding, which would have at least a one percent probability of flooding occurrence in any calendar year based on the basin being fully developed as shown on the current land use plan; i.e., the regulatory flood.

Impervious Cover: Any manmade paved, hardened or structural surface regardless of material.

Impervious cover includes but is not limited to rooftops, buildings, streets, roads, decks, swimming pools and any concrete or asphalt.

Land Development: Any land change, including but not limited to clearing, grubbing, stripping, removal of vegetation, dredging, grading, excavating, transporting and filling of land, construction, paving and any other installation of impervious cover.

Land Development Activities: Refers to those actions or activities which comprise, facilitate or result in land development.

Land Disturbance: Any land or vegetation change, including, but not limited to, clearing, grubbing, stripping, removal of vegetation, dredging, grading, excavating, transporting and filling of land, that do not involve construction, paving or any other installation of impervious cover.

Land Disturbance Activity: Those actions or activities which comprise, facilitate or result in land disturbance.

Parcel: Any plot, lot or acreage shown as a unit on the latest county tax assessment records.

Permit: The permit issued by Paulding County required for undertaking any land development activity.

Person: Any individual, partnership, firm, association, joint venture, public or private corporation, trust, estate, commission, board, public or private institution, utility, cooperative, city, county or other political subdivision of the state, any interstate body or any other legal entity.

Protection Area, or Stream Protection Area: Means, with respect to a stream, the combined areas of all required buffers and setbacks applicable to such stream.

Riparian: Belonging to or relating to the bank of a river, stream, lake, pond, or impoundment.

Setback: Means, with respect to a stream, the area established by Section 390-50.01(B) extending beyond any buffer applicable to the stream.

Stream Bank: The sloping land that contains the stream channel and begins where vegetation is rested by normal flow.

Stream Channel: The portion of a watercourse that contains the base flow of the stream.

Watershed: The land area that drains into a particular stream.

450, Policies and Procedures.

Contractor: Any person of legal entity with whom a contract is made by a developer for the purpose of constructing extensions to the water distribution and/or sanitary sewerage systems.

County: Paulding County, a political subdivision of the State of Georgia, acting by and through its Board of Commissioners.

Developer: Any individual, firm, or corporation who legally undertakes development to construct a water distribution and/or sanitary sewer system.

Developer’s Engineer: The engineer who is hired by the Developer and is in responsible charge of the water distribution and/or sanitary sewerage system design. Developer’s engineer must be licensed by the Georgia State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.

Plan Review Committee: The Paulding County committee approved to regulate and approve Land Disturbance Permits for developments within Paulding County.

Domestic Wastewater: Wastewater from sanitary fixtures such as toilets and urinals.

Flow Sensor: An inline device installed at or near the supply point of the landscape irrigation system that produces a repeatable signal proportional to flow rate.

Grease: A material composed primarily of fats, oil and grease from animal or vegetable sources.

The term fats, oil and grease shall be deemed as Grease by definition. Grease may also include petroleum-based products.

Hazen Williams Coefficient: Abbreviated as C, also called Hazen-Williams friction coefficient, a dimensionless number, is used in the Hazen-Williams Equation. The lower the coefficient, the smoother the pipe is. The higher the coefficient, the less fluid flow is restricted.

Infiltration/Inflow: Groundwater or surface water which leaks or otherwise enters into sanitary sewers through defective pipes, joints, manholes, yard drains, down spouts, sump pumps or by other means or openings.

Landscape Irrigation System: An assembly of component parts that is permanently installed for the controlled distribution of water to irrigate landscapes.

Master Shut-Off Valve: An automatic valve installed at the irrigation supply point which controls water flow into the landscape irrigation system. When this valve is closed, water will not be supplied to the landscape irrigation system.

Paulding County Water System (PCWS): Paulding County Water System Paulding County Water System Engineer: The Paulding County Water System engineer or authorized representative.

Pump Stations (sewer): Pump stations, also referred to as sewer lift stations, are facilities utilizing pumps to move sewer flow.

Residential Equivalent Unit: That portion of a user’s facility that has an impact on the water and/or wastewater systems equivalent to a single-family unit.

Rain Sensor Shut-Off Valve: An electric device that detects and measures rainfall amounts and overrides the cycle of a landscape irrigation system so as to turn off such system when a pre-determined amount of rain has fallen.

Sanitary Sewer Lateral: A pipe that extends from a sanitary sewer main to the public street right-of-way or easement for the purpose of providing sewer service to a parcel.

Sanitary Sewer Main: A gravity sewer line which collects flow from one or more sanitary sewer laterals.

Sanitary Sewer Systems: A network of pipes, pumps, and force mains for the collection and conveyance of wastewater or sewage from a community.

Service Line: The pipe from the public water main to the meter of the customer owned by Paulding County.

Sewage: Refuse liquids or waste matter known as sanitary sewer. OR Human excrement and gray water. Gray water includes household showers, dishwashing operations, etc Sewerage: The removal and disposal of sewage by sewers.

Utility: The combined or unified water and wastewater systems of the County, acting by and through the Paulding County Board of Commissioners.

Wall Castings: A component of ductile iron piping systems specifically designed and fabricated to be imbedded in poured-in-place concrete structures.

Water Distribution System: A network of pipes, valves, and fittings that convey potable water from a water treatment plant to the customers.

Water Main: An underground pipe greater than six inches that is designed to deliver water to multiple customer’s service lines.

Chapter 530, Road Use.

County Road: A highway, road, street, avenue, toll road, tollway, drive, detour, or other way open to the public and intended or used for its enjoyment and for the passage of vehicles in the county, including, but not limited to, the following public rights, structures, sidewalks, facilities, and appurtenances incidental to the construction, maintenance, and enjoyment of such rights-of-way:

Heavily Laden Vehicle: Any vehicle bearing, while loaded or unloaded, more total weight or axle weight than that permitted by state law as codified at O.C.G.A. § 32-6-26.

Major Temporary Work Site: Any tract or parcel of land measuring 75 acres or more, from which either wood products are harvested or other operations are occurring which constitute land disturbing activity under Chapter 350 of this UDO.

Minor Temporary Work Site: Any tract or parcel of land measuring less than 75 acres, from which either wood products are harvested or other operations are occurring which constitute land-disturbing activity under Chapter 350 of this UDO.

Truck Route: Any road or portion thereof, within the unincorporated county limits, over which trucks are not prohibited to operate by the provisions of Chapter 62, Article I, Section 62-7 of the Code of Paulding County, Georgia.

Chapter 540, Utility Installation in or along Public Ways.

Applicant: A person, corporation, partnership, company, entity or utility company making an application to the county for the purpose of obtaining a right-of-way encroachment permit.

Application: A document furnished by the county department of public works, transportation division, which shall be utilized and submitted to the county by all parties seeking to obtain a permit under this section.

PCDOT: Unless otherwise specified, the Paulding County Department of Transportation Permit: An encroachment permit issued by the county after application for the purpose of granting a permittee a license to come onto a public way for a specified project for a specified and limited period of time.

Permittee: A holder of a permit pursuant to this Chapter.

Permitter: The issuer of a permit. In this case, only the county, through its representatives may issue a permit pursuant to this section.

Public Way: Any land owned by the county, whether it be a right-of-way, easement, street, road, highway, bridge or other property.

Utility: Any pipe, pipeline, conduit, cable, wire, pole, frame, tower, pump, switching device, control device and any other object used in the furnishing of a public utility or public service. Utility shall not mean any facility or antenna regulated under the Georgia Streamlining Wireless Facilities and Antennas Act., O.C.G.A. Title 36, Chapter 66C, which shall be governed by Chapter 710 this UDO.

Abandoned Sign: Any sign that contains or exhibits broken panels, visible rust, visible rot, damaged support structures, or missing letters or which is otherwise dilapidated, unsightly, or unkept, and for which no person accepts maintenance responsibility. Also, any sign associated with a business that has ceased operations for 30 days or more.

Animated Sign: Any sign, or part of a sign, that uses any movement or change of lighting or color to depict action or create a special effect or scene.

Applicant: A business, company, person, or owner who formally applies for a sign review application (SRA), a temporary sign review application (TRSA), billboard review application (BRA) for Paulding County.

Audible Sign: Any sign which emits a sound.

Awning/Canopy Sign: Any sign that is part of, or attached to, an awning, canopy or other fabric, plastic or structural protective cover over a door, entrance, window, or outdoor service area. A marquee is not a canopy.

Banner: A sign other than a flag with or without characters, letters, illustrations or ornamentation applied to cloth, paper, plastic, or fabric that is intended to be hung either with a frame or without a frame. Neither flags nor canopy signs are considered banners.

Beacon: Any light with one or more beams directed into the atmosphere or directed at one or more points not on the same lot as the light source; also, any light with one or more beams that rotate or more.

Bootleg Sign: Sign, placard, poster, card, banner, or other indication of the interests of any person, group, business, or organization on any post, pole, fence, or tree, including, but not limited to, light and telephone poles, on any street, sidewalk, thoroughfare, or public right-of-way other than signs erected or caused to be erected by Paulding County.

Billboard: An off-premise, freestanding sign with an area of more than 120 square feet and not larger than 672 square feet.

Billboard Review Application (BRA): Application provided by county to review proposed signs for compliance to this chapter.

Changeable Copy Sign: Any sign that incorporates changing lights, lettering, or images to form a sign message or messages, whether such changes are accomplished electronically or manually. Any graphics and messages shall not change more than one time per minute.

Director: The Director of the Community Development Department, or his or her designee for a particular purpose.

Directory Sign: A single sign for multiple businesses, offices, professionals, industries, or other entities located within a planned center.

Drive-through/Drive-in Facility: A location where products and/or services are distributed to, or business is transacted with, a person seated in a motor vehicle.

Electronic Sign: A sign whose message may be changed at intervals by computer controller, microprocessor controller, or by remote control, and whose message is displayed through the use of LED, LCD, plasma, or other similar type panels or screens, including devices known as commercial electronic message signs and similar devices.

Entry Wall Sign: Any single faced sign attached to or erected and confined within the limits of an exterior wall generally along the perimeter of a development.

Fall Zone: An area equal to 133 percent of the height of the structure in every direction.

Festoon: Includes, pennants, flags, banner, streamers, inflatable devices, string so lights, figures/characters or other similar device.

Flag: Any fabric or bunting containing colors, patterns, or symbols used as a symbol of a government, entity, or other organization.

Flashing Sign: A sign, the illumination of which is not kept constant in intensity at all times when in use and which exhibits marked changes in lighting effects.

Gateway Sign: A sign approved by the director of the Paulding County DOT placed or constructed wholly or partially within right-of-way at key entry points to Paulding County, established communities, and other county facilities. These signs are specifically to provide unique identity and distinct characteristics of the county, community or public facility with an overall common theme.

Height: The measure in linear feet from the highest point on an object to the unaltered elevation of the ground at the base of the object or directly beneath the object. At the election of the permit holder, the height of a sign may be measured from the highest point on the sign to the level of the nearest road from which the sign is intended to be viewed.

Home Occupation Sign: A sign for an approved home occupation on a residential parcel of land, with advertising for services or products legally offered on the premises where the sign is located.

Illuminated Sign, External: A sign illuminated by an external light source. Such source cannot be a device that changes color, flashes, or alternates.

Illuminated Sign, Internal: A sign illuminated by an internal light source. Such source cannot be a device that changes color, flashes, or alternates.

Instructional Signs: A sign used to give direction or instruction to the public, such as, but not limited to "enter," "exit," "no parking," "drive through," "rest rooms," and so forth. Instructional signs shall be a monument sign with a sign face not to exceed four square feet in size and three feet in height.

Kiosk Sign: A free-standing and multiple sided structure owned by the county and located in public rights-of-way that displays directional information to residential and commercial developments.

LED Sign: An electronically controlled sign utilizing light-emitting diodes to form some or all of the sign message.

Marquee, Marquee Sign: Any permanent roof-like structure projecting beyond a building or extending along and projecting beyond the wall of the building, generally designed and constructed to provide protection from the weather.

Menu Sign: A sign or sign structure which is fully enclosed or otherwise protected from the elements, including, but not limited to, a box, shadow box, or cabinet, attached to a wall, or freestanding, which is used generally for the purpose of displaying restaurant menus or announcements of activities within the establishment for which the menu or announcement is displayed. A menu display may be used for a restaurant without drive-through service and for transient lodging facilities which have restaurant facilities open to the general public in addition to the registered guests.

Mobile Sign: A sign which is attached to, mounted on, pasted on, painted or drawn on any vehicle (whether motorized or drawn), which is placed, parked or maintained at one particular location for the express purpose and intent of promotion.

Monument Sign: A freestanding sign mounted directly upon the ground and not attached to or a part of or supported by a building and designed in such a manner that the base of the sign face is flush with the supporting solid base which is flush with the ground. The base shall be at least as wide as the sign.

Moving Sign: A sign which revolved, rotates, swings, undulates, or otherwise attracts attention through the structural movement of parts.

Multi-tenant: One of more buildings, located on a single premise, containing two or more separate and distinct individual establishments, which occupy separate portions of the building and which are physically separated from each other by walls.

Off-premise Sign: A sign which identifies, advertises, or promotes a product, service, person, place activity, event, idea or any other thing located or obtainable elsewhere other than the lot where such sign is located and not principally sold on the lot on which it is located.

On-premise Sign: A sign which identifies advertises or promotes a product, service, person, place, activity, event, idea or any other thing located or obtainable on or at the lot where such sign is located.

Out-of-store Marketing Device: An out-of-store marketing device is any facility or equipment which is located outside of a primary building on a site zoned for non-residential uses, which is used for the primary purpose of providing a product or service at the device location without the other's or agent's immediate presence, and which is manufactured to include a color, form, graphic illumination, symbol, and/or writing thereon to communicate information regarding the product or service provided thereby to the public. Examples of out-of-sore marketing devices include: fuel pumps, bank ATM units, vending machines, newspaper racks, drink machines, ice boxes, and phone booths. Where signs integral to such out-of-store marketing devices are too small to be legible to the traveling public from rights-of-way and are otherwise non-removable without damage to the equipment's surface, they do not require a SRA and are not subject to overall sign limitations for the lot on which they appear.

Pennant, Streamer: Any lightweight plastic, fabric, or other material, whether containing a message of any kind or not, suspended from a rope, wire, or string, usually in a series, designed to move in the wind.

Permanent Sign: Any sign which, when installed, in intended for permanent use. A permanent freestanding sign shall be of a type and construction as not to be easily or readily removed from the lot on which it has been erected.

Permitted: Authorized in accordance with the terms of the chapter.

Person: A natural or legal person, including a firm, organization, partnership, trust, or corporation.

Portable Sign: A sign which is not permanently affixed to the ground or to a structure, including, but not limited to, signs on trailers or signs mounted or painted on vehicles which are parked in such a manner as to serve the purpose of a sign.

Principal Building: The building in which the principal use of the lot is conducted. Non-residential lots with multiple principal uses may have multiple principal buildings, but storage buildings, garages, and other structures with clear accessory uses shall not be considered principal buildings.

Projecting Sign: Any sign which is projected from the wall of a building or structure.

Public Sign: Any sign erected by or caused to be erected by a governmental entity including kiosk directional signs through Paulding County Kiosk Sign Program, public utility, or railroad and gateway signs.

Roof Sign: Any sign erected and constructed wholly on and over the roof of a building, or supported by the roof structure.

Sign: Any device, fixture, placard, or structure affixed to, supported by, or suspended by a stationary object, building or the ground that uses any color, form, graphic illumination, symbol, or writing to communicate information of any kind to the public.

Signs During Vacancy: Signs permitted for developments with vacant lots, units, and/or tenant spaces.

Sign Face: That part of a sign that is or can be used for advertising purposes.

Sign Review Application (SRA): Application provided by the county to review proposed signs for compliance to this chapter.

Standard Informational Sign: A sign with an area of not greater than four square feet, with a sign face made for short term use, containing no reflecting elements, flags, or projections and which, when erect, stands at a height not greater than three feet and is mounted on a stake or metal frame with a thickness or diameter not greater than one and one-half inches. Off-premise standard informational signs are prohibited. Permits are not required.

Suspended Sign: A sign which is suspended from an eave or soffit of a building. (Must provide eight or more feet of ground clearance.)

Temporary Sign: Any sign that is not permanently mounted.

Temporary Sign Review Application (TSRA): Application provided by county to review proposed temporary signs for compliance to this chapter.

Tri-vision Sign: A sign designed with a series of triangular slats that mechanically rotate in sequence with one another to show three different sign messages in rotation.

Wall Sign: Any sign attached parallel to a wall, painted, on the wall surface or erected and confined within the limits of an outside wall of any building or structure, which is supported by such wall or building and which displays only one sign surface. No wall sign shall extend more than 12 inches from any wall, building, or structure.

Window Sign: Any sign that is placed inside a window or upon the window panes or glass, either inside or outside the building, and is visible from the exterior of the structure.

Zoning Ordinance: The zoning regulations enacted by the Board of Commissioners and set forth in Title 2 of this UDO.

Towers and Antennas.

Alternative Tower Structure: Manmade trees, clock towers, bell steeples, light poles and similar alternative-design mounting structures that camouflage or conceal the presence of antennas or towers.

Antenna: Any exterior apparatus designed for telephonic, radio, or television communications through the sending and/or receiving of electromagnetic waves.

FAA: The Federal Aviation Administration.

FCC: The Federal Communications Commission.

Governing Authority: The Board of Commissioners of Paulding County.

Preexisting Towers and Antennas: The meaning set forth in Section 610-30.01(D) of Chapter 610.

Height: When referring to a tower or other structure, the distance measured from ground level at the base of the structure to the highest point on the tower or other structure, even if said highest point is an antenna.

Tower: Any structure that is designed and constructed primarily for the purpose of supporting one or more antennas, including self-supporting lattice towers, guy towers, or monopole towers. The term includes radio and television transmission towers, microwave towers, common-carrier towers, cellular telephone towers, alternative tower structures, and the like.

and Antennas.

Antenna: Means

Applicable Codes: Uniform building, fire, safety, electrical, plumbing, or mechanical codes adopted by a recognized national code organization to the extent such codes have been adopted by the State of Georgia or the county or are otherwise applicable in the county.

Applicant: Any person that submits an application.

Application: A written request submitted by an applicant to the county for a permit to:

Authority Pole: A pole owned, managed, or operated by or on behalf of the county. Such term shall not include poles, support structures, electric transmission structures, or equipment of any type owned by an electric supplier.

Collocate or Collocation: To install, mount, modify, or replace a small wireless facility on or adjacent to a pole, decorative pole, or support structure.

Communications Facility: The set of equipment and network components, including wires and cables and associated equipment and network components, used by a communications service provider to provide communications services.

Communications Service Provider: A provider of communications services.

Communications Services: Cable service as defined in 47 U.S.C. § 522(6); telecommunications service as defined in 47 U.S.C. § 153(53); information service as defined in 47 U.S.C. § 153(24), as each such term existed on January 1, 2019; or wireless services.

Consolidated Application: An application for the collocation of multiple small wireless facilities on existing poles or support structures or for the installation, modification, or replacement of multiple poles and the collocation of associated small wireless facilities.

Decorative Pole: An authority pole that is specially designed and placed for aesthetic purposes.

Electric Supplier: Any electric light and power company subject to regulation by the Georgia Public Service Commission, any electric membership corporation furnishing retail service in this state, and any municipality which furnishes such service within this state.

Eligible Facilities Request: An eligible facilities request as set forth in 47 C.F.R. § 1.40001(b)(3), as it existed on January 1, 2019.

FCC: The Federal Communications Commission of the United States.

Fee: A one-time, nonrecurring charge based on time and expense.

Historic District: Means

Law: Includes any and all federal, state, or local laws, statutes, common laws, codes, rules, regulations, orders, or ordinances.

Micro Wireless Facility: A small wireless facility not larger in dimension than 24 inches in length, 15 inches in width, and 12 inches in height that has an exterior antenna, if any, no longer than 11 inches.

Permit: A written authorization, in electronic or hard copy format, required to be issued by the county to initiate, continue, or complete the collocation of a small wireless facility or the installation, modification, or replacement of a pole or decorative pole upon which a small wireless facility is collocated.

Person: An individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, trust, or other entity or organization, including an authority.

Pole: A vertical pole such as a utility, lighting, traffic, or similar pole made of wood, concrete, metal, or other material that is lawfully located or to be located within a right-of-way, including without limitation a replacement pole and an authority pole. Such term shall not include a support structure, decorative pole, or electric transmission structure.

Rate: A recurring charge.

Reconditioning Work: The activities associated with substantially painting, reconditioning, improving, or repairing authority poles.

Replace, Replacement Or Replacing: To replace a pole or decorative pole with a new pole or a new decorative pole, similar in design, size, and scale to the existing pole or decorative pole consistent with 47 C.F.R. § 1.40001(b)(7) as it existed on January 1, 2019, in order to address limitations of, or change requirements applicable to, the existing pole to structurally support the collocation of a small wireless facility.

Replacement Work: The activities associated with replacing an authority pole.

Right-of-Way: Means, generally, property or any interest therein, whether or not in the form of a strip, which is acquired for or devoted to a public road; provided, however, that such term shall apply only to property or an interest therein that is under the ownership or control of the county and shall not include property or any interest therein acquired for or devoted to an interstate highway or the public rights, structures, sidewalks, facilities, and appurtenances of buildings for public equipment and personnel used for or engaged in administration, construction, or maintenance of public roads or research pertaining thereto or scenic easements and easements of light, air, view and access.

Small Wireless Facility: Means radio transceivers; surface wave couplers; antennas; coaxial, fiber optic, or other cabling; power supply; backup batteries; and comparable and associated equipment, regardless of technological configuration, at a fixed location or fixed locations that enable communication or surface wave communication between user equipment and a communications network and that meet both of the following qualifications: (i) each wireless provider's antenna could fit within an enclosure of no more than six cubic feet in volume; and (ii) all other wireless equipment associated with the facility is cumulatively no more than 28 cubic feet in volume, measured based upon the exterior dimensions of height by width by depth of any enclosure that may be used. The following types of associated ancillary equipment are not included in the calculation of the volume of all other wireless equipment associated with any such facility: electric meters; concealment elements; telecommunications demarcation boxes;

grounding equipment; power transfer switches; cut-off switches; and vertical cable runs for connection of power and other services. Such term shall not include a pole, decorative pole, or support structure on, under, or within which the equipment is located or collocated or to which the equipment is attached and shall not include any wireline backhaul facilities or coaxial, fiber optic, or other cabling that is between small wireless facilities, poles, decorative poles, or support structures or that is not otherwise immediately adjacent to or directly associated with a particular antenna.

State: The State of Georgia.

Support Structure: A building, billboard, water tank, or any other structure to which a small wireless facility is or may be attached. Such term shall not include a decorative pole, electric transmission structure, or pole.

Wireless Infrastructure Provider: Any person, including a person authorized to provide telecommunications services in this state, that builds, installs, or operates small wireless facilities, poles, decorative poles, or support structures on which small wireless facilities are or are intended to be used for collocation but that is not a wireless services provider.

Wireless Provider: A wireless infrastructure provider or a wireless services provider.

Wireless Services: Any services provided to the public using licensed or unlicensed spectrum, including the use of Wi-Fi, whether at a fixed location or mobile.

Wireless Services Provider: A person that provides wireless services.

Wireline Backhaul Facility: An aboveground or underground wireline facility used to transport communications data from a telecommunications demarcation box associated with small wireless facility to a network.

Broadband Ready Community.

Applicant: A person applying for a permit for a broadband network project.

Broadband Network Project: Any deployment of broadband services.

Permit: Any local permit, license, certificate approval, registration, or similar form of approval required by policy, administrative rule, regulation, ordinance, or resolution with respect to a broadband network project.

Political Subdivision: A county, municipal corporation, consolidated government, or local authority.