FAMILY - One or more persons, related or unrelated, living together as a single housekeeping unit.
FARM ANIMAL - Any horse, cow, llama, sheep, goat, rabbit, hen, rooster, or other poultry.
FARMWORKER HOUSING - Housing specifically for persons employed in the agricultural industry, to include group quarters, single room occupancy, and multifamily housing. Such housing must be restricted by deed for occupancy by farmworkers. See also Migrant Farmworker Housing.
FENCE - A solid or open barrier other than a wall above ground intended to enclose or mark a boundary, usually made of posts and wire or wood.
FINANCIAL INSTITUTION - An establishment or facility for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue of money; for the extension of credit; and for facilitating the transmission of funds. This definition specifically excludes check cashing business and pawnshop.
FIRE CODE – The current edition of the California state adopted fire code regulations, and city amendments to such regulations.
FLAGPOLE - A freestanding structure or a structure attached to a building or to the roof of a building on a parcel of record and used for the sole purpose of displaying flags of political entities.
FLOOR AREA RATIO - The total gross area of all buildings on a lot divided by the lot area (FAR). For the purpose of calculating floor area, floor area will (1) not include exterior courts, garages, carports, elevator shafts, and stairwells; and (2) be calculated based on the exterior faces of walls.
FOOD PROCESSING - Means all the activities of manufacturing food and beverages for human consumption, and prepared animal feeds, including, without limitation, creameries, flour mills, frozen food lockers, fruit and vegetable canning, freezing, packing and preserving plants, ice and cold storage plants and agricultural packing, and canning and processing plants.
FRONTAGE - That portion of a lot, parcel or site that abuts a dedicated public street.
(Ord. 1100, passed 7-6-04; Am. Ord. 1159, passed 6-19-06; Am. Ord. 1167, passed 11-20-06)