This section provides definitions for terms in this code that are technical in nature or that otherwise may not reflect a common usage of the term. If a term is not defined in this article, then the CRC shall determine the correct definition. Items in italics refer to articles, sections, or tables in this code.
A-STREET. cumulatively, those Thoroughfares that by virtue of their pre-existing pedestrian-supportive qualities, or their future importance to pedestrian connectivity, are held to the highest standards prescribed by this code.
ACCESSORY BUILDING. an Outbuilding with an Accessory Unit.
ACCESSORY UNIT. an Apartment not greater than 440 square feet sharing ownership and utility connections with a Principal Building; it may or may not be within an Outbuilding. (Syn: ancillary unit).
ADJUSTMENT. A ruling that would permit a practice that is not consistent with either a specific provision or the Intent of this Code.
ALLEE. A regularly spaced and aligned row of trees usually planted along a Thoroughfare or Path.
APARTMENT. a Residential unit sharing a building and a Lot with other units and/or uses; may be for rent, or for sale as a condominium.
ARCADE. A Private Frontage conventional for Retail use wherein the Facade is a colonnade supporting habitable space that overlaps the Sidewalk, while the Facade at Sidewalk level remains at the Frontage Line.
ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES. Exterior building elements intended to provide ornamentation to the building massing, including, but not limited to: eaves, cornices, bay windows, window and door surrounds, light fixtures, canopies, and balconies.
ATTIC. the interior part of a building contained within a pitched roof structure.
AVENUE (AV). A Thoroughfare of high vehicular capacity and low to moderate speed, acting as a short distance connector between urban centers, and usually equipped with a landscaped median.
AWNING. A roof or cover which projects from a wall of a building over a window or door, made of canvas, aluminum or similar material, which may be fixed in place or be retractable.
B-STREET. Cumulatively, those Thoroughfares that by virtue of their use, location or absence of pre-existing pedestrian-supportive qualities, may meet a standard lower than that of the A-Street.
BACKBUILDING. a single-Story structure connecting a Principal Building to an Outbuilding.
BED AND BREAKFAST. an owner-occupied Lodging type offering 1 to 5 bedrooms, permitted to serve breakfast in the mornings to guests.
BICYCLE LANE (BL). A dedicated lane for cycling within a moderate-speed vehicular Thoroughfare, demarcated by striping.
BICYCLE ROUTE (BR). A Thoroughfare suitable for the shared use of bicycles and automobiles moving at low speeds.
BICYCLE TRAIL (BT). A bicycle way running independently of a vehicular Thoroughfare.
BLOCK. The aggregate of private Lots, Passages, Rear Alleys and Rear Lanes, circumscribed by Thoroughfares.
BLOCK FACE. The aggregate of all the building Facades on one side of a Block.
BOULEVARD (BV). A Thoroughfare designed for high vehicular capacity and moderate speed,
traversing an Urbanized area. Boulevards are usually equipped with Slip Roads buffering Sidewalks and buildings.
BUILDABLE AREA. the area in which a building is permitted to be constructed which is the lot area excluding the sidewalk easements where applicable.
BUILD-TO LINE (BTL). A line parallel to a lot line or right-of-way where a building facade must be placed.
BY RIGHT. characterizing a proposal or component of a proposal for a Community Plan or Building Scale Plan that complies with this code and is permitted and processed administratively, without public hearing. See Warrant and Adjustment.
CIVIC. The term defining not-for-profit organizations dedicated to arts, culture, education, recreation, government, transit and municipal parking.
CIVIC BUILDING. A building operated by not-for-profit organizations dedicated to arts, culture, education, recreation, government, transit and municipal parking, or for use approved by the legislative body.
CIVIC PARKING RESERVE. Parking Structure or parking lot within a one-quarter-mile of the site that it serves.
CIVIC SPACE. An outdoor area dedicated for public use. CIVIC SPACE types are defined by the combination of certain physical constants including the relationships among their intended use, their size, their landscaping and their Enfronting buildings.
CIVIC ZONE. Designation for public sites dedicated for Civic Buildings and Civic Space.
COMMERCIAL. The term collectively defining workplace, Office, Retail and Lodging Functions.
COMMON DESTINATION. An area of focused community activity, usually defining the approximate
center of a Pedestrian Shed. It may include without limitation one or more of the following: a Civic Space, a Civic Building, a Commercial center or a transit station, and may act as the social center of a neighborhood.
COMMON YARD. A planted Private Frontage wherein the Facade is set back from the Frontage line. It is visually continuous with adjacent yards.
COMMUNITY UNIT. A regulatory category defining the physical form, Density, and extent of a settlement. The three COMMUNITY UNIT types addressed in this code are CLD, TND, and RCD. Variants of TND and RCD for Infill are called Infill TND and Infill RCD. The TOD Community Unit type may be created by an overlay on TND or RCD.
CONFIGURATION. The form of a building, based on its massing, Private Frontage and height.
CORRIDOR. A lineal geographic system incorporating transportation and/or Greenway trajectories.
COTTAGE. An Edgeyard building type. A single-family dwelling, on a regular Lot, often shared with an Accessory Building in the back yard.
COURTYARD BUILDING. A building that occupies the boundaries of its Lot while internally defining one or more private patios.
CURB. The edge of the vehicular pavement that may be raised or flush to a Swale. It usually incorporates the drainage system.
DENSITY. The number of dwelling units within a standard measure of land area.
DESIGN SPEED. The velocity at which a Thoroughfare tends to be driven without the constraints of signage or enforcement. There are four ranges of speed: Very Low: (below 20 MPH); Low: (20-25 MPH); Moderate: (25-35 MPH); High: (above 35 MPH). Lane width is determined by desired Design Speed. Disposition: the placement of a building on its Lot.
DOORYARD. A Private Frontage type with a shallow Setback and front garden or patio, usually with a low wall at the Frontage Line. (Variant: lightwell, light court.)
DRIVE. AThoroughfare along the boundary between an Urbanized and a natural condition, usually along a waterfront, Park or promontory. One side has the urban character of a Thoroughfare, with Sidewalk and building, while the other has the qualities of a Road or parkway, with naturalistic planting and rural details.
DRIVEWAY. A vehicular lane within a Lot, often leading to a garage.
EDGEYARD BUILDING. A building that occupies the center of its Lot with Setbacks on all sides.
EFFECTIVE PARKING. The amount of parking required for Mixed Use after adjustment by the Shared Parking Factor.
EFFECTIVE TURNING RADIUS. The measurement of the inside Turning Radius taking parked cars into account.
ELEVATION. An exterior wall of a building not along a Frontage Line. See: FACADE.
ENCROACHMENT. Any structural element that breaks the plane of a vertical or horizontal regulatory limit, extending into a Setback, into the Public Frontage, or above a height limit.
ENFRONT. To place an element along a Frontage, as in "porches Enfront the street."
EXPRESSION LINE. A line prescribed at a certain level of a building for the major part of the width of a Facade, expressed by a variation in material or by a limited projection such as a molding or balcony. (Syn: transition line.)
EXTENSION LINE. A line prescribed at a certain level of a building for the major part of the
width of a Facade, regulating the maximum height for an Encroachment by an Arcade Frontage.
FACADE. The exterior wall of a building that is set along a Frontage Line. See ELEVATION.
FORECOURT. A Private Frontage wherein a portion of the Facade is close to the Frontage Line and the central portion is set back.
FRONTAGE. The area between a building Facade and the vehicular lanes, inclusive of its built and planted components. FRONTAGE is divided into Private Frontage and Public Frontage.
FRONTAGE LINE. A Lot line bordering a Public Frontage. Facades facing Frontage Lines define the public realm and are therefore more regulated than the Elevations facing other Lot Lines.
FUNCTION. The use or uses accommodated by a building and its Lot, categorized as Restricted, Limited, or Open, according to the intensity of the use.
GALLERY. A Private Frontage conventional for Retail use wherein the Facade is aligned close to the Frontage Line with an attached cantilevered shed or lightweight colonnade overlapping the Sidewalk. See Table 7.
GREEN. A Civic Space type for unstructured recreation, spatially defined by landscaping rather than building Frontages.
GREENWAY. an Open Space Corridor in largely natural conditions which may include trails for bicycles and pedestrians.
HIGHWAY. A rural and suburban Thoroughfare of high vehicular speed and capacity.This type is allocated to the more rural Transect Zones (T-1,T-2, and T-3).
HOME OCCUPATION. Non-Retail Commercial enterprises. The work quarters should be invisible from the Frontage, located either within the house or
in an Outbuilding. Permitted activities are defined by the Restricted Office category.
HOUSE. An Edgeyard building type, usually a single-family dwelling on a large Lot, often shared with an Accessory Building in the back yard. (Syn: single.)
INFILL. Noun - new development on land that had been previously developed and cleared land within Urbanized areas. Verb- to develop such areas.
INN. A Lodging type, owner-occupied, offering 6 to 12 bedrooms, permitted to serve breakfast in the mornings to guests.
LAYER. A range of depth of a Lot within which certain elements are permitted.
LIGHTWELL. A Private Frontage type that is a below-grade entrance or recess designed to allow light into basements. (Syn: light court.)
LINEAR PEDESTRIAN SHED. A Pedestrian Shed that is elongated along an important Mixed Use Corridor such as a main street. A LINEAR PEDESTRIAN SHED extends approximately one-quarter mile from each side of the Corridor for the length of its Mixed Use portion. It may be used to structure a TND, RCD, Infill TND or Infill RCD.
LINER BUILDING. A building specifically designed to mask a parking lot or a Parking Structure from a Frontage.
LIVE-WORK. A Mixed Use unit consisting of a Commercial and Residential Function.The Commercial Function may be anywhere in the unit. It is intended to be occupied by a business operator who lives in the same structure that contains the Commercial activity or industry. See WORK-LIVE. (Syn.: flexhouse.)
LODGING. Premises available for daily and weekly renting of bedrooms.
LOT. A parcel of land accommodating a building or buildings of unified design. The size of a LOT is controlled by its width in order to determine the grain (i.e., fine grain or coarse grain) of the urban fabric.
LOT AREA. The total square footage or acreage of horizontal area included within the lot lines.
LOT COVERAGE. The portion of the lot expressed as a percentage that is covered in buildings or other structures.
LOT LINE. The boundary that legally and geometrically demarcates a Lot.
LOT WIDTH. The length of the Principal Frontage Line of a Lot.
MAIN CIVIC SPACE. The primary outdoor gathering place for a community. The MAIN CIVIC SPACE is often, but not always, associated with an important Civic Building.
MANUFACTURING. Premises available for the creation, assemblage and/or repair of artifacts, using table-mounted electrical machinery or artisanal equipment, and including their Retail sale.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA TREATMENT CENTER DISPENSING FACILITY. The retail sales component of a medical marijuana treatment center that has been licensed by the Florida Department of Health Office of Medical Marijuana Use pursuant to Fla. Stat. § 381.986, and is authorized by the state to dispense marijuana, but does not include the cultivation, processing, or distribution facilities of the medical marijuana treatment center.
MIXED USE. Multiple Functions within the same building through superimposition or adjacency, or in multiple buildings by adjacency, or at a proximity determined by Warrant.
NET SITE AREA All developable land within a site including Thoroughfares but excluding land allocated as Civic Zones.
OFFICE. Premises available for the transaction of general business but excluding Retail, artisanal and Manufacturing uses.
OPEN SPACE. Land intended to remain undeveloped; it may be for Civic Space.
OUTBUILDING. An Accessory Building, usually located toward the rear of the same Lot as a Principal Building, and sometimes connected to the Principal Building by a Backbuilding.
PARK. A Civic Space type that is a natural preserve available for unstructured recreation.
PARKING STRUCTURE. A building containing one or more Stories of parking above grade.
PASSAGE (PS). A pedestrian connector, open or roofed, that passes between buildings to provide shortcuts through long Blocks and connect rear parking areas to Frontages.
PATH (PT). A pedestrian way traversing a Park or rural area, with landscape matching the contiguous Open Space, ideally connecting directly with the urban Sidewalk network.
PEDESTRIAN SHED. An area that is centered on a Common Destination. Its size is related to average walking distances for the applicable Community Unit type. PEDESTRIAN SHEDS are applied to structure Communities. (Syn: walkshed, walkable catchment.)
PLANTER. The element of the Public Frontage which accommodates street trees, whether continuous or individual.
PLAZA. A Civic Space type designed for Civic purposes and Commercial activities in the more urban Transect Zones, generally paved and spatially defined by building Frontages.
PRINCIPAL BUILDING. The main building on a Lot, usually located toward the Frontage.
PRINCIPAL ENTRANCE. The main point of access for pedestrians into a building.
PRINCIPAL FRONTAGE. On corner Lots, the Private Frontage designated to bear the address and Principal Entrance to the building, and the measure of minimum Lot width. Prescriptions for the parking Layers pertain only to the PRINCIPAL FRONTAGE. Prescriptions for the first Layer pertain to both Frontages of a corner Lot. See Frontage.
PRIVATE FRONTAGE. The privately held Layer between the Frontage Line and the Principal Building Facade.
PUBLIC FRONTAGE. The area between the Curb of the vehicular lanes and the Frontage Line.
REAR ALLEY (RA). A vehicular way located to the rear of Lots providing access to service areas, parking, and Outbuildings and containing utility easements. REAR ALLEYS should be paved from building face to building face, with drainage by inverted crown at the center or with roll Curbs at the edges.
REAR LANE (RL). A vehicular way located to the rear of Lots providing access to service areas, parking, and Outbuildings and containing utility easements. REAR LANES may be paved lightly to Driveway standards. The streetscape consists of gravel or landscaped edges, has no raised Curb, and is drained by percolation.
REARYARD BUILDING. A building that occupies the full Frontage Line, leaving the rear of the Lot as the sole yard. See Table 9. (Var: Rowhouse,Townhouse, Apartment House)
RECESS LINE. A line prescribed for the full width of a Facade, above which there is a Stepback of a minimum distance, such that the height to this line (not the overall building height) effectively defines the enclosure of the Enfronting public space. Var: Extension Line.
REGIONAL CENTER DEVELOPMENT (RCD). A Community Unit type structured by a Long Pedestrian Shed or Linear Pedestrian Shed, which may be adjoined without buffers by one or several Standard Pedestrian Sheds, each with the individual Transect Zone requirements of a TND. RCD takes the form of a high-Density Mixed Use center connected to other centers by transit. See INFILL RCD, Table 2 and Table 14A. (Var: town center, downtown. Syn: Regional Center)
REGULATING PLAN. A Zoning Map or set of maps that shows the Transect Zones, Civic Zones, Special Districts if any, and Special Requirements if any, of areas subject to, or potentially subject to, regulation by this code. Residential: characterizing premises available for long-term human dwelling.
RETAIL. Characterizing premises available for the sale of merchandise and food service. See Table 10 and Table 12.
RETAIL FRONTAGE. Frontage designated on a Regulating Plan that requires or recommends the provision of a Shopfront, encouraging the ground level to be available for Retail use. See SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS.
ROAD (RD). A local, rural and suburban Thoroughfare of low-to-moderate vehicular speed and capacity. This type is allocated to the more rural Transect Zones (T1-T3).
ROWHOUSE. A single-family dwelling that shares a party wall with another of the same type and occupies the full Frontage Line. See REARYARD BUILDING. (Syn: Townhouse)
SECONDARY FRONTAGE. On corner Lots, the Private Frontage that is not the Principal Frontage. As it affects the public realm, its First Layer is regulated.
SETBACK. The area of a Lot measured from the Lot line to a building Facade or Elevation that is maintained clear of permanent structures, with the exception of Encroachments. (Var: build-to-line.)
SHARED PARKING FACTOR. An accounting for parking spaces that are available to more than one Function.
SHOPFRONT. A Private Frontage conventional for Retail use, with substantial glazing and an awning, wherein the Facade is aligned close to the Frontage Line with the building entrance at Sidewalk grade.
SIDEWALK. The paved section of the Public Frontage dedicated exclusively to pedestrian activity.
SIDEYARD BUILDING. A building that occupies one side of the Lot with a Setback on the other side. This type can be a Single or Twin depending on whether it abuts the neighboring House.
SLIP ROAD. An outer vehicular lane or lanes of a Thoroughfare, designed for slow speeds while inner lanes carry higher speed traffic, and separated from them by a planted median. (Syn: access lane, service lane)
SPECIAL DISTRICT (SD). An area that, by its intrinsic Function, Disposition, or Configuration, cannot or should not conform to one or more of the normative Community Unit types or Transect Zones specified by this code.
SPECIALIZED BUILDING. A building that is not subject to Residential, Commercial, or Lodging classification.
SQUARE. A Civic Space type designed for unstructured recreation and Civic purposes, spatially defined by building Frontages and consisting of Paths, lawns and trees, formally disposed.
STANDARD PEDESTRIAN SHED. A Pedestrian Shed that is an average 1/4 mile radius or 1320 feet, about the distance of a five-minute walk at a leisurely pace. See PEDESTRIAN SHED.
STEPBACK. A building Setback of a specified distance that occurs at a prescribed number of Stories above the ground.
STOOP. A Private Frontage wherein the Facade is aligned close to the Frontage Line with the first
Story elevated from the Sidewalk for privacy, with an exterior stair and landing at the entrance.
STORY. A habitable level within a building, excluding an Attic or raised basement.
STREET (ST). A local urban Thoroughfare of low speed and capacity.
STREETSCREEN. A freestanding wall built along the Frontage Line, or coplanar with the Facade. It may mask a parking lot from the Thoroughfare, provide privacy to a side yard, and/or strengthen the spatial definition of the public realm. (Syn: streetwall.)
SUBSTANTIAL MODIFICATION. Alteration to a building that is valued at more than 50% of the replacement cost of the entire building, if new.
SWALE. A low or slightly depressed natural area for drainage.
T-ZONE. Transect Zone.
THOROUGHFARE. A way for use by vehicular and pedestrian traffic and to provide access to Lots and Open Spaces, consisting of Vehicular Lanes and the Public Frontage.
TND. Traditional Neighborhood Development, a Community Unit type structured by a Standard Pedestrian Shed oriented toward a Common Destination consisting of a Mixed Use center or Corridor, and in the form of a medium-sized settlement near a transportation route. (Syn: village. Variant: Infill TND, neighborhood.)
TOD. Transit Oriented Development.TOD is created by an overlay on all or part of aTND or RCD, or by designation on a Regional Plan, permitting increased Density to support rail or Bus Rapid Transit (BRT).
TOWNHOUSE. See REARYARD BUILDING. (Syn: Rowhouse)
TRANSECT. A cross-section of the environment showing a range of different habitats. The rural-urban Transect of the human environment is divided into six Transect Zones. These zones describe the physical form and character of a place, according to the Density and intensity of its land use and Urbanism.
TRANSECT ZONE (T-ZONE). One of several areas on a Zoning Map regulated by this code. TRANSECT ZONES are administratively similar to the land use zones in conventional codes, except that in addition to the usual building use, Density, height, and Setback requirements, other elements of the intended habitat are integrated, including those of the private Lot and building and Public Frontage. See Table 1.
TURNING RADIUS. The curved edge of a Thoroughfare at an intersection, measured at the inside edge of the vehicular tracking. The smaller the TURNING RADIUS, the smaller the pedestrian crossing distance and the more slowly the vehicle is forced to make the turn.
URBANISM. Collective term for the condition of a compact, Mixed Use settlement, including the physical form of its development and its environmental, functional, economic, and sociocultural aspects.
URBANIZED. Generally, developed. Specific to this code, developed at T-3 (Sub-Urban) Density or higher.
WARRANT. A ruling that would permit a practice that is not consistent with a specific provision of this Code, but that is justified by its intent. Warrants are usually granted administratively by the FBCRC.
WORK-LIVE. a Mixed Use unit consisting of a Commercial and Residential Function. It typically has a substantial Commercial component that may accommodate employees and walk-in trade. The unit is intended to function predominantly as work space with incidental Residential accommodations that meet basic habitability requirements. See LIVE-WORK. (Syn: Live-With.)
YIELD. Characterizing a Thoroughfare that has two-way traffic but only one effective travel lane because of parked cars, necessitating slow movement and driver negotiation. Also, characterizing parking on such a Thoroughfare.
ZONING MAP. The official map or maps that are part of the zoning ordinance and delineate the boundaries of individual zones and districts. See REGULATING PLAN.
(Ord. 1286-16, passed 1-25-2016; Ord. 1367-18, passed 6-11-2018)