As used in this chapter:
(a) “Address Grid Map of Loudoun County” means the grid map, coincident with the Virginia Coordinate Grid System, 1927 datum, maintained in the Department of Environmental Resources, used to assign property addresses in Loudoun County. The grid is a series of north-south and east- west intersecting lines on 1,000-foot intervals, with arbitrary values ranging from 30000 to 48000 (west to east) and 10000 to 27000 (north to south).
(b) “Address plat” means a plat at one inch equals fifty feet scale supplied by a developer for addressing multifamily residential and commercial/industrial buildings.
(c) “Addressable structure” means any permanent building used for human habitation or gathering or any commercial or industrial structure.
(d) “Alley” means a right of way which provides secondary-service access for vehicles to the side or rear of abutting properties.
(e) “Department” means the Loudoun County Department of Environmental Resources.
(f) “Director” means the Director of the Department of Environmental Resources of the County, or his or her duly authorized agent.
(g) “Facilities Standards Manual” means the Facilities Standards Manual of the County.
(h) “Industrial and commercial structures” means structures used for industrial or commercial purposes, including, but not limited to, wholesale, retail or service business activities, research and development activities, manufacturing, processing, warehousing and commercial offices.
(i) “Institutional structure” means a building or structure which provides for governmental uses or public or private health, educational or recreational uses, such as park buildings or pools, schools, churches, libraries, hospitals, camp buildings and governmental administrative offices.
(j) “Land development addressing program” means the program by which streets are named and addresses for premises are developed for all new streets and structures proposed through land development application review.
(k) “Person” means any individual, corporation, cooperative, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, private institution, group or agency, or any legal successor, representative, agent or agency thereof.
(l) “Premises address” means an address assigned to a property prior to construction.
(m) “Premises Map of Loudoun County” means a set of maps at 1:2,400 (one inch equals 200 feet) scale, coincident with the County detailed base map, which shows all addressable structures with their primary addresses, all named public and private roads, all major drainageways and waterbodies and all driveways.
(n) “Primary access” means, in the case of single-family residential properties, the driveway. In all other cases, it means the entrance from the street that accesses the front or primary entrance to the structure.
(o) “Primary address” means the street address number assigned to an individual primary structure.
(p) “Primary entrance” means, in the case of single-family residential structures, the front door. For all other structures, it means the main doorway used for access to the structure, as shown on the address plat.
(q) “Rural addressing program” means the program by which individual premises addresses are developed for existing structures in the previously unaddressed or the rural route post office box area of the County (generally west of Route 643).
(r) “Rural area” means an area where, in general, lot sizes are larger than one acre and addressable structures are typically not near the named travelway.
(s) “Secondary address” means a suite, apartment, tenant house or other addressable structure on a single-owner private access easement or unit number assigned to a secondary or internal entrance of any building if used with a primary address. For example, an apartment number or suite number is a secondary address.
(t) “Secondary entrance” means, in a residential building, an internal doorway to an apartment or condominium. In a commercial or industrial building, “secondary entrance” means either the doorway into an internal suite or the doorway into an external loading dock or staff or service entry.
(u) “Single-owner private access easement” means a private access easement serving more than one addressable structure where all such addressable structures are owned by one common owner, e.g. tenant houses on an estate subject to the rural addressing program. Property on a private road which has been subdivided, but on which lots have not been sold, shall not be considered a single-owner private access easement.
(v) “Small area map” means a one inch equals 200 feet scale map produced by the Department of Environmental Resources on an eight and one-half inch by eleven inch sheet.
(w) “Street Name Map of Loudoun County” means the official Street Name Map of Loudoun County, being a three map set, updated and published annually, which shows the location of all named private and public roads and incorporated area boundaries and which includes a County-wide map at 1:50,000 scale, an eastern Loudoun enlargement and an incorporated town enlargement.
(x) “Street Network Map of Loudoun County” means a series of maps at 1:12,000 (one inch equals 1,000 feet) scale, coincident with the County block base map, which shows names and locations of all named public and private roads, future planned roads and municipal boundaries.
(y) “Urban area” means an area where, in general, lots sizes are less than one acre and addressable structures are typically near the named travelway.
(Ord. 92-01. Passed 1-21-92; Ord. 94-09. Passed 4-20-94.)