Zoning Dictionary

Letter: F

Form-based code

A planning and zoning tool that is used for regulating development using physical form rather than land use segregation as the organizing principle for the code.

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Fortune Telling Businesses

Shall mean every natural person who engages in, practices or professes to practice, within the city, the business or art of astrology, phrenology, life reading, fortune-telling, cartomancy, clairvoyance, crystal gazing, hypnotism (other than in connection with the practice of medicine), mediumship, mesmerism, oriental mysteries, palmistry, spirits, etherealization, numerology, physiognomy, seership, prophecy, augury, divination, magic, necromancy, […]

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Foundry

An industrial building, the primary use of which is casting metals.

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Fraternal Organization

A group of people formally organized for a common interest, usually cultural, religious or entertainment with regular meetings, rituals and formal written membership requirements.

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Fraternity or Sorority House

A dwelling maintained exclusively for members enrolled in or employed by an academic college or university. A building rented, occupied or owned by a general or local chapter of some regularly organized college fraternity or sorority or by or on its behalf by a building corporation or association composed of members of alumni thereof, and […]

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Freeboard

A vertical distance added to the designated highpoint of a severe flood (usually 100 or 200 year floods) to establish a minimum safe level for the construction of buildings.

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Freight Handling Facilities

Terminals with the capability of handling a larger variety of goods involving various forms of transportation and providing multimodal shipping capabilities such as rail to truck and truck to air.

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Front

The elevation of a building which is opposite the main access street.

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Front of Lot

The side of any lot designated as the front by the plan of subdivision in which the lot lies. In the absence of positive identification by the plan, the front of any lot is the narrowest side which faces the street, unless by customary use and occupation in the area in which the lot is […]

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Frontage

The minimum straight line distance between the intersection of the side lot lines and the front lot line.

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