"Family care facility" means a state licensed facility that provides primarily nonmedical, 24-hour-a-day resident services to six or fewer individuals in need of personal assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living, or for the protection of the individual; and which is a residential care facility within the meaning of the Community Care Facilities Act (California Health and Safety Code section 1500 et seq.) or is a state licensed home for the mentally disordered or otherwise handicapped, or dependent and neglected children, within the meaning of sections 5115 and 5116 of the California Welfare and Institutions Code. Facilities that do not fall under these categories or provide services to more than six individuals, excluding members of the resident family or persons employed as facility staff, are residential care facilities.
"Family day care facility" means a state licensed facility that provides primarily nonmedical supervision, care, therapy and instruction to six or fewer individuals, excluding members of the resident family or persons employed as facility staff on a less than 24-hour-a-day basis within the meaning of the Community Care Facilities Act (California Health and Safety Code section 1500 et seq.).
"Farm worker housing" means housing for agricultural employees.
"Feature or characteristic." See "Historic preservation" related definitions.
"Final map" means a map required by the Subdivision Map Act and this title showing a subdivision of five or more parcels, a subdivision of five or more condominiums as defined in section 783 of the California Civil Code, a community apartment project containing five or more parcels, or the conversion of a dwelling to a stock cooperative containing five or more dwelling units.
"Firearms business" means "firearm and ammunition sales" as defined in chapter 5.64.
"Fire protection" means fire hydrants and other protective measures as may be reasonably required by the fire marshal for protection of property to be located within a subdivision.
"Flag lot." See "Lot."
"Flood hazard" means a hazard to land or improvements due to seasonal inundation or to overflow water having sufficient velocity to transport or deposit debris, scour the surface soil, dislodge or damage buildings, or erode the banks of water courses.
"Flood hazard zone" means an area subject to flooding that is delineated as either a special hazard area or an area of moderate hazard on an official flood insurance rate map issued by FEMA. The identification of flood hazard zones does not imply that areas outside the flood hazard zones, or uses permitted within flood hazard zones, will be free from flooding or flood damage.
"Floor area ratio (FAR)" means the gross building area (GBA) of development, exclusive of structured parking areas and open space (common, public, and private), proposed on the site divided by the total net lot area (NLA). The formula is GBA/NLA = FAR (Example: 43,560 / 43,560 = FAR 1.0).
"Fraternity house; sorority house" means a dwelling or dwelling unit maintained for sorority or fraternity members and their guests or visitors and affiliated with an academic or professional college, university, or other institution for higher learning.
"Freeway" means a highway defined as a "freeway" in section 23.5 of the California Streets and Highways Code.
"Front yard." See "Yard."
"Front-yard setback." See "Setback."
"Frontage" means that portion of a lot that abuts a public street or private street for which the street alignments, widths, and design standards have been approved by the planning and design commission, preservation commission, or city council.
"Frontage road" or "service road" means a street adjacent and approximately parallel to and separated from a freeway or other public street; and that affords access to abutting property.
"Fuel storage yard" means portions of properties where flammable and combustible liquids and gases are received by tank vessels, pipe lines, tank cars, or tank vehicles, and are stored above ground, blended in bulk, or compressed, for the purpose of distributing such liquids by tank vessels, pipelines, tank cars, tank vehicles, or containers.
"Funeral chapel" means a building used primarily for human funeral services in relation to a mortuary or crematory. (Ord. 2024-0017 § 6; Ord. 2017-0061 § 4; Ord. 2017-0009 § 6; Ord. 2016-0012 § 3; Ord. 2013-0020 § 1; Ord. 2013-0018 § 13; Ord. 2013-0007 § 1)