FACADE: The main face or front of the building.
FAIR OR FESTIVAL: Temporary gathering consisting of, but not limited to, carnival, a competitive exhibition of farm, new household and manufactured products, including art and craft items, with various amusements, which may include carnival rides and games, and educational displays.
FAMILY: One or more persons living together as a single nonprofit housekeeping unit and sharing common living, sleeping, cooking and eating facilities. Members of a “family” need not be related by blood but are distinguished from a group occupying a hotel, club, fraternity or sorority house, residential boarding house, or residential care or social service facility.
FARMERS' MARKETS: A public market at which farmers and other vendors sell produce directly to consumers. Farmers' markets includes certified farmers' markets (see definition for Certified Farmers' Market). Produce at farmers' markets may include produce purchased from wholesalers and retailers. Farmers' markets shall be composed at a minimum of eighty percent (80%) business activity of fresh produce, artisan cheeses, hand harvested honey, flowers, and other fresh, small batch foodstuffs. The remaining twenty percent (20%) business activity at farmers' markets may be composed of the sale of art, handcrafts, and other handmade goods.
FAST FOOD: See also definition of Eating And Drinking Establishments.
FEASIBLE: Capable of being done, executed or managed successfully from the standpoint of the physical and/or financial abilities of the implementer(s).
FENCE: An exterior physical barrier erected to enclose, screen or separate areas.
FINANCIAL SERVICES: A commercial land use involved with the exchange of money and services related to the financial system.
FINDINGS: A set of conclusions which are required before specified permits, land use applications, deviations, ordinance changes or other entitlements may be granted.
FISCAL IMPACT ANALYSIS: An analysis of the costs and revenues associated with impacts to a public agency of a specific development proposal.
FITNESS CENTER: Facilities equipped and used for training and conditioning.
FLAG: The symbol, insignia or display of a governmental or nonprofit organization when not displayed in connection with a commercial promotion or used as an advertising mechanism.
FLOOD, FLOODING OR FLOODWATER: A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from the overflow of inland waters; the unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source.
FLOOD HAZARD AREA, SPECIAL (SFHA): An area having special flood risk shown on an FHBM or FIRM as zone A, AO or AE.
FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAP (FIRM): The official map on which the federal emergency management agency or federal insurance administration has delineated both the areas of special flood hazards and the risk premium zones applicable to the community.
FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY: The official report provided by the federal insurance administration that includes flood profiles, the flood insurance rate map, the flood boundary and floodway map and the water surface elevation of the base flood.
FLOODPLAIN ADMINISTRATOR: The individual appointed to administer and enforce the floodplain management regulations.
FLOODPLAIN ENCROACHMENT: The advance or infringement of uses, plant growth, fill, excavation, buildings, permanent structures or development into a floodplain which may impede or alter the flow capacity of a floodplain.
FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT: The operation of an overall program of corrective and preventive measures for reducing flood damage and preserving and enhancing, where possible, natural resources in the floodplain, including, but not limited to, emergency preparedness plans, flood control works, floodplain management regulations and open space plans.
FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS: Title 8, chapter 8.04 of this code and other zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations, building codes, health regulations, special purpose ordinances (such as grading and erosion control) and other applications of police power which control development in flood prone areas. This term describes federal, state or local regulations in any combination thereof which provide standards for preventing and reducing flood loss and damage.
FLOODPLAIN OR FLOOD PRONE AREA: Any land area susceptible to being inundated by water from any sources.
FLOODPROOFING: Any combination of structural and nonstructural additions, changes, or adjustments to structures which reduce or eliminate flood damage to real estate or improved real property, water and sanitary facilities, structures and their contents.
FLOODWAY: The channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one foot (1'). Also referred to as regulatory floodway.
FLOODWAY FRINGE: That area of the floodplain on either side of the regulatory floodway where encroachment may be permitted.
FLOOR AREA, GROSS: The total enclosed area of all floors of a building, measured to the outside face of the structural members and exterior walls, including halls, stairways, mechanical equipment rooms, and habitable basements.
FLOOR AREA, NET: The total of all floor areas of a building, excluding stairwells and elevator shafts, equipment rooms, interior vehicular parking or loading, and all floors below the first or ground floor, except when used or intended to be used for human habitation.
FLOOR AREA RATIO (FAR): The gross floor area of a building(s) on a lot divided by the area of the lot. For example, on a site with ten thousand (10,000) gross square feet of land area, a floor area ratio of 1.0 will allow a maximum of ten thousand (10,000) square feet of building floor area to be built. Similarly, a FAR of 1.5 would allow fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet of floor area; a FAR of 2.0 would allow twenty thousand (20,000) square feet; and a FAR of 2.5 would allow twenty five thousand (25,000) square feet; and a FAR of 0.5 would allow only five thousand (5,000) square feet to be built. FARs shall be applied on a parcel by parcel basis as opposed to an average FAR for an entire land use or zoning district.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE SALES: Retail sales of food and beverages for off site preparation and consumption. Typical uses include groceries, liquor stores and delicatessens. Establishments at which twenty percent (20%) or more of the floor area is used for the sale of prepared food for on site or takeout consumption shall be classified as eating and drinking establishments. See also definition of Eating And Drinking Establishments.
FOOTPRINT, BUILDING: The outline of a building at all of those points where it meets the ground.
FORTUNE TELLING: A use involving the foretelling of the future in exchange for financial or other valuable consideration.
FRONT WALL: The nearest wall of a structure to the street upon which the structure faces, but excluding cornices, canopies, eaves, or any other architectural embellishment.
FRONTAGE: The side of a lot abutting a street (the front lot line), except the side of a corner lot (the street side lot line). On corner lots the narrowest frontage shall be considered the front of the lot. The frontage of a nonrectangular lot or a lot located on a cul-de-sac, curved street, or dead end street with a curved turnaround shall be measured as the chord drawn between the terminuses of the side property lines at their intersection with the street right of way.
FUNERAL SERVICES: Establishments primarily engaged in the preparation of the deceased for burial or cremation, the temporary display of the deceased, cremations and rituals connected with the burial or cremation. (Ord. 252, 11-18-2014; amd. Ord. 296, - -)