FAÇADE MATERIALS: | The materials used to cover the exterior of a building. A. Primary Materials: Materials that make up the majority of the façade of a structure. B. Secondary Materials: A material that is used on the façade of a structure but does not make up for the majority of the envelope of a structure. |
A. One individual living alone; or B. One of the following groups of individuals, but not both at the same time, living together as a single nonprofit housekeeping unit, together with any incidental domestic staff residing on the premises: 1. Two (2) or more individuals related by blood, marriage, adoption, guardianship, or other duly authorized custodial relationship; 2. Two (2) unrelated individuals and any children of either such individuals, if any; or 3. A group of not more than three (3) unrelated individuals including in such number any domestic staff residing on the premises. | |
FENCE: | A structure that creates a tangible barrier or obstruction having the effect of preventing passage or view across the fence line. Where specified, a planting such as a hedge may be considered a fence. |
FENESTRATION: | Areas of glass on all building facades, including all types of windows and doors. |
FLOODPLAIN: | A relatively flat area or lowland adjoining a river, stream, watercourse, ocean or lake which has been or may be covered with floodwater. Specifically, for purposes of this title, floodplain shall be that area of this City designated within the boundaries of the official flood insurance rate map and approved amendments, which may be subject to periodic inundation in the event of the base flood. |
FLOODPLAIN OVERLAY ZONE: | Boundaries of the intermediate regional flood as defined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency maps. The floodplain zone is designed to overlay or be superimposed over existing zoning within the defined floodplain. Within such an overlay zone, the existing zone remains effective with the additional conditions superimposed by the Floodplain Zone. |
FLOOR AREA: | The sum of the gross horizontal area of the several floors of a building and its accessory buildings on the same lot, excluding cellar and basement floor areas not devoted to residential use, but including the area of roofed terraces. All dimensions shall be measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls. |
FLOOR, LOT AREA RATIO (FAR): | The total floor area of a building divided by the area of the lot on which it is located. |
FRATERNAL AND BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES: | Includes chartered nonprofit drinking establishments including social clubs or lodges with or without dining facilities and cocktail lounges composing a branch of a fraternal order, or society such as Elks, Masons, American Legion, Eagles, Optimists, Odd Fellows, Kiwanis, Rotary and other similar nonprofit organizations and is open only to members and their duly authorized guests. |
FRATERNITY OR SORORITY HOUSE: | A building occupied by and maintained exclusively for students affiliated with Weber State University, who are associated together in a fraternity/sorority that is officially recognized by Weber State University and who receive lodging and/or meals on the premises for compensation. |
FRONTAGE: | Block frontage, building frontage, or lot frontage as the context dictates. |
FRONTAGE, BLOCK: | All the property fronting on one side of the street between intersecting or intercepting streets, or between a street and a right-of-way, waterway, end of dead-end street, or political subdivision boundary, measured along the street line. An intercepting street shall determine only the boundary of the frontage on the side of the street which it intercepts. |
FRONTAGE, BUILDING: | The length of a building that faces and is roughly parallel to an abutting street. |
FRONTAGE, LOT or FRONTAGE, STREET: | The length of a lot that is coterminous with the street right-of-way line. |
FRONTAGE, PRIVATE STREET: | The length of a lot that is coterminous with the private street right-of-way line. |
(Ord. 2015-58, 12-1-2015; amd. Ord. 2020-24, 6-23-2020; Ord. 2023-16, 4-11-2023)
Notes
| 1 | 1. See section 15-13-31 of this title. |