Land Use Authority. Means a person, board, commission, agency, or other body designated by ordinance/code to act upon a land use application.
Land Use Element of the General Plan. Means the comprehensive, long range strategic plan for the future of the Town and includes elements such as future land uses, transportation, housing, storm drainage, culinary water, secondary water, economic development, capital facilities plan, and intergovernmental coordination, adopted as the Land Use Element of the General Plan by the Town Council.
Land Use Ordinance. Means all regulations adopted by the Town of Fairfield relating to the development and use of real property within the Town.
Landscape Park. Means a parcel of land which is developed using an aesthetically arranged combination of trees, shrubs, ground cover, or other natural vegetative material and/or incidental structural landscaping features (i.e. fountains, reflecting pools, sculpture, play apparatus, benches, and tables) and which is maintained as a place of ornamentation and recreation.
Landscape Park Recreational Facility. Means a play field, building or other structure or area which is located in an approved landscape park as an ancillary feat and which is shown on the park's approved plan. Such facilities shall be recreational in nature, such as a slide, swing set, picnic pavilion, swimming pool, gymnasium, golf course, tennis court or ball field. The facilities shall not include sleeping or living facilities, nor uses that produce noise, dust or light that will conflict with neighboring residences or businesses.
Landscaping. Means the installation of any combination of the following items to produce an aesthetic effect of to enhance and preserve natural features of the site:plant materials, such as lawn, annual and perennial flowering plants, native vegetation, vines, shrubs, and trees, but not including weeds or noxious plants; ground cover, such as mulch, bark, and decorative rocks; ponds, fountains, falls, and streams; and statutes, outdoor artwork, benches and tables, earth berms, pots, and planters.
Landslide. Means a general term for the downslope movement of a mass of soil, surficial deposits, or rock. Landslides may be rotational or translational.
Large Scale Development. Means a development or subdivision which has been recommended for approval, approval with conditions, or denial by the Planning and Zoning Commission, and approved by the Fairfield Town Council and which consists of several buildings and structures planned and developed under unified control as a single unit or project, including a planning unit development, a planning subdivision, a mountain home development, a recreational resort, and a mobile home park.
Laundromat. Means a facility where patrons, or individuals employed by the laundromat, wash with soap and water in coin-operated machines (or other means of payment), and/or dry with coin-operated machines (or other means of payment) clothing or other fabrics. A laundromat does not include dry cleaning or dry cleaners.
Library. Means a public facility containing printed information, electronic information, and/or pictorial material for the public use and purpose of study, reference, and recreation.
Licensing Official. Means a person in charge of issuing and revoking licenses.
Light Manufacturing. Means the manufacture, predominantly from previously prepared materials, of finished products or parts, including processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment, and packaging of such products, and incidental storage, sales, and distribution of such products, but excluding basic industrial processing and custom manufacturing.
Livestock. Means domestic animals, such as meat and dairy cattle, horses, pigs and poultry, raised for home use or for profit.
Livestock Auction Yard. Means a farm animal exchange company and includes livestock pens, auction facilities and structures, and public and transport parking for the sale of domestic livestock only.
Livestock Feed Yard. Means a feedlot or feed yard is a type of animal feeding operation (AFO) which is used in intensive animal farming for finishing livestock, notably beef cattle, but also swine, horses, sheep, turkeys, chickens or ducks, prior to slaughter. Livestock feed yards are not allowed within the boundaries of Fairfield Town in any zone.
Lot. Means a tract of land, regardless of any label, that is created by and shown on a subdivision plat that has been recorded in the office of the county recorder. A parcel of land that is a legal unit.
Lot Coverage. Means the portion of a lot that is occupied by buildings or structures including accessory uses.
Lot, Interior. Means any lot other than a corner lot.
Lot Layout. Means a plat of a lot, drawn to scale, showing its actual measurements, the size and location of any existing buildings, and buildings to be erected; the location of the lot and abutting streets; and any further requirements as described in this Code.
Lot Line. Means a boundary line of a parcel of land.
Lot Line. Means a line dividing one lot from another, or from a street or any public place.
Lot Line Adjustment. Means a plat by which one or more lot(s) or tract lines are moved or removed.
Lot Line, Front. Means any street right-of-way line of record or established by use, which forms one or more boundaries of a lot.
Lot Line, Front Lot Line for Flag Lot. Means the lot line nearest to a dedicated public street and at the end of the staff.
Lot Line, Primary. See Primary Lot Line.
Lot Line, Rear. Means a lot line that is opposite a front lot line. A triangular lot has two side lot lines but no rear lot line. For other irregularly shaped lots, the rear lot line is all lot lines that are most nearly opposite the front lot line.
Lot line, Rear for Corner Lot. Means that interior lot line which has been designated as the rear lot line as determined by the direction the house faces.
Lot Line, Rear for Interior Lot. Means the interior line lying opposite of the front lot line.
Lot Line, Side. Means a lot line that is neither a front or rear lot line. On a corner lot, the longer lot line which abuts a street is a side lot line.
Lot Line, Side for Corner Lot. Means any interior lot line for multi-frontage lot; or, for other corner lots, that interior lot line which has been designated as the side lot line by the lot owner, unless designated on the plat.
Lot Line, Side for Interior Lot. Means those interior lines lying opposite each other, running between the front and rear lot lines; or in the case of a multi-frontage lot, those interior lines which run between the two front lot lines.
Lot Line, Side Street. Means a lot line that is both a side lot line and a street lot line.
Lot Line, Street. Means a lot line, or segment of a lot line that abuts a street. A street lot line does not include lot lines that abut an alley. On a corner lot, there are two (or more) street lot lines. A street lot line can include front lot lines and side lot lines.
Lot Width. Means frontages at the required setback.
Lot Width, for Corner Lot. Means the width of the lot as measured along both street frontages at the required setback; and in the case of an interior , means the horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured along a line lying at right angles to the centerline of the lot at the point of the required setback..
Lot Width, for Interior Lot. Means the horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured along a line lying at right angles to the centerline of the lot at the point of the required setback.
Rev. ord. 06132023-2, passed 6-13-2023.
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