Marlborough Sounds Resource Management Plan 2 October 2014 FARMING means a land based activity, having as its primary purpose the commercial production and sale (other than from a rural selling place) of any livestock or vegetative matter except as excluded below and unless the context otherwise requires, includes the cultivation and reshaping of land necessary and appropriate to normal agricultural activity. For the purposes of the Plan farming does not include intensive farming, commercial forestry and in the case of vegetative matter, does not include the processing of farm produce beyond cutting, cleaning, grading, chilling, freezing, packaging and storage of produce grown on the farming unit. FILL means a deposit of cut material from excavation. FORESHORE has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Act. FRONT YARD means a yard between the front boundary (ie; road) of the site and a line parallel thereto extending across the full width of the site, provided that where a boundary is indicated in the Plan as a road to be widened the front boundary of the site should be taken as the front boundary as it will be after such widening has been completed. FROST FANS means a land based device, including both permanent and mobile, designed or adapted to mitigate frost damage by fanning warmer air over potentially frost-affected surfaces, and includes any motive source, the support structure and power sour ce. GARBAGE GRINDER has the same meaning as a waste disposal unit that is a unit installed in the sink to grind organic waste prior to it passing into the drainage system for the residential unit. HABITAT means an area where an organism or population normally occurs. HAPU means a band or subtribe. HAZARDOUS FACILITY means activities involving hazardous and environmentally damaging substances and sites, including vehicles for their transport, at which these substances are used, stored, handled and disposed of. Hazardous facility does not include: • Storage or use of hazardous consumer products for private domestic purposes; • Retail outlets for the domestic usage sale of hazardous substances (eg; supermarkets, hardware shops, pharmacies); • Facilities using genetically modified or new organisms; • Developments that are or may be hazardous but do not involve hazardous substances (eg; mineral extraction, high voltage transmission lines, radio masts, electrical substations); • Gas and oil pipelines; and • Fuel in motor vehicles, boats and small engines such as weedeaters, lawnmowers and chainsaws and trailer mounted refueling equipment. HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE* hazardous substances are defined in the Act as “Any substance which may impair human, plant or animal health or may adversely affect the health and safety of any person or the environment and whether or not contained in or forming part of any other substance or thin g”; For the purposes of the Plan, hazardous substances can be additionally defined as: • Any substance possessing one or more of the following intrin sic properties: - an explosive nature; - flammability; - an oxidising nature; - corrosivity; - acute or immediate toxicity (including ecotoxicity); - chronic or delayed toxicity; 25 - 6