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The initiation, construction, change, or enlargement of any use or structure, the disturbance of land through the removal of ground cover, or the division of land into two or more parcels. “Development” shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
§ Construction or enlargement of a building or structure;
§ Change in the type of use of a building, structure, or land;
§ Material increase in the intensity of use of land, such as an increase in the number of businesses, offices, manufacturing establishments, or dwelling units located in a building or structure or on the land;
§ Commencement or expansion of resource extraction, agricultural, horticultural, or forestry activities on a parcel of land;
§ Demolition of a structure or the removal of trees from a parcel of land;
§ Deposition of refuse, solid or liquid waste, or fill on a parcel of land;
§ Alteration, either physically or chemically, of the shore, bank, or channel of any stream, lake, or other body of water or alteration of any wetland; and
§ Any land disturbing activity that adds to or changes the amount of impervious or partially impervious cover on a land area or which otherwise decreases the infiltration of precipitation into the soil.
§ Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations, or storage of equipment or materials.
Cary, NC Land Development Ordinance On-line VIC Version - This site last updated 3/4/2008
Note: This is not the official version of the Cary Land Development Ordinance