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Fall Zone: The area in which a wireless support structure may be expected to fall in the event of a structural failure, as measured by engineering standards.

Family: One or more individuals residing in a dwelling unit, living as a single housekeeping unit, and complying with the following rules:

A. Any number of individuals related by blood, marriage, or adoption may occupy a dwelling unit;

B. Where some or all of the occupants are unrelated by blood, marriage, or adoption, the total number of occupants that are unrelated shall not exceed six. In applying this provision, children who are under the age of 23 and who are children of the owner or a person renting an entire dwelling unit from the owner shall be counted as a single occupant. In addition, in all cases, the limitation set out in paragraph C below shall apply.

C. Where a reasonable accommodation has been approved.

D. The presence of household employees or children in foster care shall not disqualify any premises otherwise satisfying the above rules.

Family Care Home: A residential facility as defined in NCGS § 160D-907.

Farm: See: "Agricultural Uses"

Farm Products: Includes, but is not limited to, fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, herbs, grains, legumes, nuts, shell eggs, honey or other bee products, flowers, nursery stock, livestock food products (including meat and milk), and seafood.

Farmers’ Market: A market open to the public where all products sold are farm products, value-added farm products, or a food or beverage product, and where the booths are operated by producers.

Feed Lines: Cables used as the interconnecting media between a transmission/receiving base station and an antenna.

Fenestration: The design and arrangement of windows and other exterior glazed openings of a building.

Final Plat: The final map of all or a portion of a subdivision which is presented for final approval.

Firing Range: A property prepared, equipped and delineated for the purpose of shooting at targets by rifles [excluding air rifles], pistols, shot guns or archery. Excluded from this definition are residential sites and properties with hunting leases.

Flex Space: Buildings designed and marketed as multipurpose facilities with at least 10,000 square feet of leasable space providing opportunities for a mix of office, showroom, distribution, and/or laboratory space. Facilities tend to be single-story.

Flood or Flooding: A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from:

1. The overflow of inland waters; and/or

2. The unusual and rapid accumulation of runoff of surface waters from any source.

Flood Insurance: The insurance coverage provided under the National Flood Insurance Program.

Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM): An official map on which the Federal Emergency Management Agency has delineated the areas of special flood hazard, the Future Conditions Flood Hazard Areas and the risk premium zones.

Flood Insurance Study (FIS): A report that includes an examination, evaluation, and determination of flood hazards, corresponding water surface elevations (if appropriate), flood hazard risk zones, and other flood data in a community issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The Flood Insurance Study report includes Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs.)

Flood Zone: A geographical area shown on a Flood Hazard Boundary Map or Flood Insurance Rate Map that reflects the severity or type of flooding in the area.

Floodplain (or Flood Prone Area): Any land area susceptible to being inundated by water from any source.

Floodplain Administrator: The individual appointed to administer and enforce the floodplain management regulations. The Inspections Director or designee serves as the Floodplain Administrator pursuant to paragraph 3.21.2, Floodplain Administrator.

Floodplain Development Permit: means any type of permit that is required in conformance with the provisions of this ordinance, prior to the commencement of any development activity.

Floodplain Management: means 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: means this ordinance and other zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations, building codes, health regulations, special purpose ordinances, 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.

Floodproofing: Any combination of structural and nonstructural additions, changes, or adjustments to structures, which reduce or eliminate risk of flood damage to real estate or improved real property, water and sanitation facilities, or structures with 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 (1) foot.

Floodway Fringe: The portion of the Special Flood Hazard Area that is outside of the Floodway.

Floor Area: Area of enclosed (i.e. roofed and walled) built space, excluding any unfinished area used exclusively for storage or mechanical elements.

Floor Area Ratio (FAR): The ratio of building area to parcel area.

Forecourt: The area between the streetscape and the façade of a building, as prescribed for the Forecourt Frontage Type.

Forestry: The act of growing trees, harvesting timber or replanting trees in accordance with a management plan endorsed by the NC Division of Forest Resources.

Freeboard: The height added to the Base Flood Elevation (BFE) or the future conditions flood elevation to account for watershed development as well as limitations of the engineering methodologies for the determination of flood elevations. The Base Flood Elevation plus the freeboard establishes the “Regulatory Flood Protection Elevation.”

Freeway: A multi-lane, controlled access major road connecting this region, major activity centers or major roads with other regions, major activity centers or major roads. It is designed to accommodate large traffic volumes at high speeds. Such facilities may be part of the Interstate, Federal, or State primary highway system and are identified and further described on the adopted Comprehensive Transportation Plan, as amended.

Frontage, Street: The dimension of a property that is adjacent to a street.

Future Conditions Flood: The flood having a one (1) percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year based on future conditions hydrology.

Future Conditions Flood Elevation: A determination of the water surface elevations of the one percent (1%) annual chance flood based on future conditions hydrology as published in the Flood Insurance Study. This elevation, when combined with the freeboard, establishes the “Regulatory Flood Protection Elevation” in Future Conditions Flood Hazard Areas.

Future Conditions Flood Hazard Area: The land area that would be inundated by the one percent (1%) annual chance flood based on future conditions hydrology as determined in paragraph 8.4.2, Applicability, of this ordinance.

Future Conditions Hydrology: The flood discharges associated with projected land-use conditions based on Durham City’s and County’s zoning maps or comprehensive land-use plans and without consideration of projected future construction of flood detention structures or projected future hydraulic modifications within a stream or other waterway such as bridge and culvert construction, fill, and excavation. Future conditions flood discharges are published in the Flood Insurance Study.