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Easement: A grant by a property owner for use by the public, a corporation or persons of an area of land for specific purposes.

Educational Facility – Primary or Secondary School: A facility that offers instruction at the elementary, middle, junior, or high school levels, including associated indoor or outdoor recreational facilities.

Educational Facility – University or College: A facility for post‐secondary higher learning that grants associate, bachelor, master, and/or doctoral degrees. Such facilities may include additional uses as part of the principal use such as research facilities, dormitories, cafeterias, restaurants, retail sales, childcare facilities, indoor or outdoor recreational facilities, stadiums, and similar uses.

Educational Facility – Vocational, Trade, or Business: An institution offering instruction beyond high school level with a course of study in vocational, technical or other special subjects.

Electronic Gaming Operation: Any for-profit business or enterprise, whether as a principal or an accessory use, where persons utilize electronic machines, including but not limited to computers and gaming terminals, to conduct games of chance, including but not limited to sweepstakes, and where cash, merchandise, or other items of value are redeemed or otherwise distributed, whether or not the value of such distribution is determined by electronic games played or by predetermined odds. Such businesses or enterprises have as a part of its operation the running of one or more games or processes with any of the following characteristics: (1) payment, directly or as an intended addition to the purchase of a product, whereby the customer receives one or more electronic sweepstakes tickets, cards, tokens, or similar items entitling or empowering the customer to enter a sweepstakes, and without which item the customer would be unable to enter the sweepstakes; or, (2) payment, directly or as an intended addition to the purchase of a product, whereby the customer can request a no purchase necessary free entry of one or more sweepstakes tickets or other item entitling the customer to enter a sweepstakes. The term electronic gaming operations includes, but is not limited to, cyber-gambling establishments, internet sweepstakes, video sweepstakes, or cybercafés, which have a finite pool of winners. This does not include any lottery endorsed or permitted by the State of North Carolina.

Elevated Building: A non-basement building: (a) built in a Special Flood Hazard Area to have the top of the elevated floor, above the ground by means of pilings, columns (posts or piers), shear walls parallel to the flow of water or adequately anchored so as not to impair the structural integrity of the building during a flood up to the magnitude of the base flood; or (b) elevated by means of fill or solid foundation perimeter walls with openings sufficient to facilitate the unimpeded movement of flood waters.

Eligible Facility Request: A request for modification of an existing tower or base station that involves collocation of new transmission equipment, removal of transmission equipment, or replacement of transmission equipment but does not include a “substantial change” of the facility pursuant to the qualifications detailed in the FCC Report and Order FCC14-153, or as amended; and complies with all applicable building, structural, electrical, and safety codes and with all other laws codifying objective standards reasonably related to health and safety.

Encroachment: When used in reference to Sec. 8.4, Floodplain and Flood Damage Protection Standards, the advance or infringement of uses, fill, excavation, buildings, permanent structures or development into a floodplain, which may impede or alter the flow capacity of a floodplain.

Energy Dissipater: A structure or a shaped channel section with mechanical armoring placed at the outlet of pipes or conduits to receive and break down the energy from high velocity flow.

Engineered Stormwater Control: A structural BMP used to reduce pollution or peak flow rates to downstream properties and receiving waters in order to achieve water quality or water quantity control.

Erosion: The wearing away of land surface by the action of wind, water, gravity or any combination thereof.

Erosion Control Plan: A plan designed to control both erosion and sedimentation.

Event Venue: A primarily indoor commercial multipurpose venue facility designed primarily for hosting special events such as graduations, weddings, anniversaries, holiday gatherings, trade shows, corporate functions or meetings, and other similar functions. The facility may typically have a catering kitchen, indoor and outdoor seating, and a stage or event area. This definition does not include stadiums, arenas, or other similar outdoor venues.

Existing Conditions: Conditions that exist at time of plan or plat submittal.

Existing Manufactured Home Park or Manufactured Home Subdivision: When used in reference to Sec. 8.4, Floodplain and Flood Damage Protection Standards, 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) was completed before the original adoption of flood damage protection ordinances which occurred in the City of Durham on October 18, 1971 and in Durham County on August 21, 1972.

Expressway: The same attributes as a freeway but with partial control of access and some limited driveways. Such facilities are identified and further described on the adopted Comprehensive Transportation Plan, as amended.

Extended Stay Residence: An establishment containing 10 or more guest rooms that contain kitchen facilities or other home-like amenities not ordinarily provided in hotels or motels, for overnight guests staying five or more consecutive nights, and providing on-site registration and management.