Chapter 1 General Provisions Part 2 Definitions F

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Facade - Each exterior wall plane of a structure as seen from one side or view.

Family - One or more persons occupying premises and living as one housekeeping unit using one kitchen, and distinguished from a group occupying a boarding and lodging house, fraternity or sorority house, a club, hotel, or motel.

Factory Built Housing - A building or structure designed and intended as a single family dwelling unit and fabricated in an off-site manufacturing facility for installation or assembly at the building site as a permanent structure with transport features, if any, removed, and that meets the additional standards specified in section 4.1.3 of this Land Development Code. This term includes “manufactured homes” and “modular homes” as defined in the 2002 Kentucky Residential Code or successor.

Family Care Home (Mini-Home) - A home licensed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky operated and maintained to provide 24 hour protection and personal care services for residential accommodations for three individuals or less who are not related within the third degree of consanguinity to the licensee and who because of impaired capacity for self care elect or require a protective environment but do not have an illness, injury, or disability for which constant medical care and skilled nursing services are required.

F. E. M. A. - The U. S. Federal Emergency Management Agency or any successor agency.

Fence - Any construction of wood, metal, wire mesh, masonry, or other material, erected for the purpose of assuring privacy or protection, but excluding shrubbery and plantings.

Fill - Sand, gravel, earth, or other materials of any composition whatsoever placed or deposited by humans.

Filtered View - The establishment or maintenance of woody vegetation of sufficient density to partially screen structures and maintain a natural ridgeline silhouette against the sky. The vegetation need not be so dense as to completely obscure visibility of structures.

Final Subdivision Plat - see “Plat, Record.”

Finished Elevation - The proposed elevation of the land surface of a site after completion of all site preparation work.

Fire Protection District - Any lawfully created agency established for the ostensible purpose of fire suppression and enforcement of laws and regulations related to fire prevention, protection and suppression.

Fixture - the assembly that houses the lamp or lamps and can include all or some of the following parts: a housing, a mounting bracket or pole socket, a lamp holder, a ballast, a reflector or mirror, and/ or a refractor or lens.

Flag Lot - see “Lot, Flag.”

Flood or Flooding - A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from either the overflow of inland waters or the unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface water from any source.

Flood, Local Regulatory - The flood having a one-percent (1%) likelihood of being equaled or exceeded in any given year based on a fully developed watershed.

Flood Elevation, Local Regulatory Base - Height of the local regulatory flood expressed as feet above mean sea level (National Geodetic Vertical Datum 1929). This is determined by hydraulic calculations using the runoff from a fully developed watershed using as the basis for calculation a methodology approved by the administering agency which includes storm duration estimates and using zoning maps current as of the time of the calculation, provided that in calculating runoff potential for publicly owned property dedicated to public open space, for existing cemeteries, for existing 18 hole or larger regulation golf courses and for land prohibited from development by ordinance of Jefferson County or one of the municipalities within its boundaries, the actual use rather than the designated zoning category on the zoning maps shall be used.

Flood Light - a form of lighting fixture designed to direct the output of a contained lamp in a more-or-less specific direction, utilizing reflecting or refracting elements located external to the lamp.

Flood Plain Board - The Board of the Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District.

Floodplain, Local Regulatory - Any stream course or normally dry land area susceptible to being partially or completely inundated by the overflow of water from sources of public water or by the unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of public surface waters and subject to a local regulatory flood.

Floodplain Permit - The approval required by Part C of Chapter 157 of the Jefferson County Cod e of Ordinances.

Floodplain Storage Compensation - An artificially excavated, hydraulically equivalent volume of floodplain storage sufficient to offset a reduction in floodplain storage resulting from filling or construction within the local regulatory floodplain. Such floodplain storage compensation shall be within the same watershed and shall be provided on the same property or at an alternative site if the administering agency so approves.

Floodproof or Floodproofing - Any combination of structural and non-structural 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.

Floor Area - Total area within a building, measured from the exterior walls of the building, and equal to the sum of the number of square feet on each of the floors of the building. The number of square feet in an attic shall be counted to the extent that the height of the attic story is equal to or greater than seven feet; and the number of square feet in a finished basement shall be included, but the number of square feet in a basement other than a finished basement shall not be included (See "Basement, Finished".) Accessory portions of a building such as non-enclosed porches, garages, carports and uncovered steps or fire escapes are not included.

Floor Area Ratio - The number of interior square feet contained in a building (See "Floor Area") divided by the number of square feet contained within the fixed boundaries of the building lot.

Footcandle - the unit of illuminance on a surface one square foot in area on which there is a uniformly distributed flux of one lumen, or the illuminance produced on a surface all points of which are at a distance of one foot from a directionally uniform point source of one candela.

Form District - An area with distinct boundaries, delineated on the Zoning District Map to which a set of regulations governing the pattern and form of development and redevelopment applies.

Front Door - The entrance into the principal building on the building site facing the street.

Front Property Line - The shortest lot line which coincides with the right-of-way of a street or square. In the case of a lot abutting upon only one street the front property line is the line parallel to and common with the edge of the right-of-way. In the case of a corner lot, that Part of the building lot having the narrowest frontage on any street shall be considered the front line.

Fully Developed Watershed - A condition of a watershed which most accurately reflects the ultimate land use of the watershed and its potential to cause runoff.

Fully-Shielded Light Fixture (also known as Full-cutoff) - a lighting fixture constructed in such a manner that all light emitted by the fixture, either directly from the lamp or a diffusing element, or indirectly by reflection or refraction from any Part of the luminaire, is projected below the horizontal and meets IESNA criteria for fully-shielded (or full-cutoff) fixtures. Any structural Part of the light fixture controlling light emissions must be permanently affixed.

Functionally Dependent Facility - A use, structure, activity or facility which, in the judgment of the administering agency (MSD) cannot perform its essential project purpose unless it is located or carried out in close proximity to water. The term does not include long-term storage, manufacture, sales, service or residential facilities.

Funeral Home - A building used for the preparation of the deceased for burial, for the display of the deceased, and for ceremonies connected therewith before burial or cremation.