Parapet Wall
That portion of any building wall that rises above the level of the roof line.

Passive Open Space
Generally an undeveloped space or environmentally sensitive area that requires minimal development. These open space areas can include pedestrian or bicycle pathways or greenways.

Pedestrian Area
An area used primarily for walking, such as a sidewalk or greenway. Phase of Grading One of 2 types of grading, rough or fine.

Planned Transit Route
Any fixed route public transit service described or illustrated in the City's adopted Comprehensive Plan or adopted by a local or regional public transit agency.

Planning Director
The chief administrator as designated by the City Manager to implement and administer the Department of City Planning and the UDO. This term shall be deemed to include the Planning Director or designee.

Play Courts
Recreation facilities that operate and use a court such as tennis, basketball, handball, squash, croquet, shuffleboard, volleyball and racquetball courts and clubs.

Play Fields
Areas in which field games are played and that contain less than 250 seats. Play fields include: baseball, field hockey, football, lacrosse, soccer, softball and open play areas.

Playset
A freestanding play structure primarily intended for children, including swing sets, tree houses, and slides.

Portable Ground Sign
Any sign which rests upon the ground, a structure, frame, building or other surface. Portable ground signs are not affixed to a supporting structure, building or frame. Such signs include but are not limited to the following: trailer signs, sandwich board signs, sidewalk signs, curb signs or A-Frame signs.

Porch
A raised structure attached to a building forming a covered entrance. To qualify as a porch, 50% or more of each exterior wall of the porch must be open. For the purposes of this requirement, mesh screens and latticework shall be considered open.

Post-Development Conditions
Pre-development conditions together with the land use, drainage and impervious conditions that would exist on the site if all proposed development plans for the site are fully completed. 

Pre-Development Conditions
The land use, drainage and impervious surface conditions existing on the site at the time plans are submitted for approval, including any previously approved development plans for the site which has not sunsetted, projects which have an outstanding valid building permit in compliance with N.C. Gen. Stat. §160D-1110, 160D-1111 and §160D-1115 and projects that have obtained a State permit such as landfills, land application of residuals on the site.

Premises
The term premises is interchangeable with the term lot.

Principal Arterial
Principal arterials are comprised of limited-access freeways, expressway and gateway arterials. Principal arterials are the same roads as major access corridors.

Principal Building or Use
The building, structure or land that contains the primary function or activity on a lot.

Project
A site under unified control for the purposes of development.

Protective Yard
A landscaped yard area which contains no buildings, vehicular surface area, loading, storage or display service areas. For street protective yards, driveways and sidewalks necessary to serve the development may be permitted, provided that they are perpendicular to the protective yard. Protective yards include transitional protective yards, street protective yards and Zone A transition zones.

Public Transit Agency
Publicly-funded operators of bus transit systems, including but not limited to the City of Raleigh, GoTriangle, the Town of Cary, and North Carolina State University.