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<br />4 Amended: <br />3 Amended: 9/4/01 <br />2 Amended: 6/27101 <br />I Amended: !I/O/Ol <br />Effective 915/00 <br />City of Centerville Ord. #4 <br /> <br />housekeeping establishment for occupancy by one (1) family with separate toilets and facilities for <br />cooking and sleeping. <br /> <br />Easement - The right of a person, government agency, or public utility company to use public or private <br />land owned by another for a specific purpose. <br /> <br />Essential Services - Public and private utilities required by the resident and working population. <br /> <br />Family - An individual, or two (2) or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption, or a group of <br />not more than five (5) persons not so related, living together as a single housekeeping unit using common <br />cooking and kitchen facilities. <br /> <br />Facade - The exterior wall of a building exposed to a public view or that wall viewed by persons not within <br />the building. <br /> <br />Fence - Any artificially constructed barrier of any material or combination of materials erected to enclose <br />or screen areas of land. <br /> <br />Flood Plain - Flood plain or flood-prone area means any land area susceptible to being inundated by <br />water from any source. <br /> <br />Floodway - The channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be <br />reserved in order to discharge the 1 DO-year flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface <br />elevation more than one foot at any point. <br /> <br />Floodway Fringe - All that land in a flood plain not lying within a delineated floodway. Land within a <br />fJoodway fringe is subject to inundation by relativeiy low velocity flows and shallow water depths. <br /> <br />Floor Area - The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a building or dwelling unit, <br />measured from the exterior walls or from the centerline of party walls separating buildings, excluding <br />basements. <br /> <br />Floor Area Ratio - The total floor area on a zoning lot divided by the total site area of the lot or parcel <br />being developed. <br /> <br />Freestanding Sign - Any sign supported by structures or supports that are permanently anchored in the <br />ground and that are independent from any building or structure. <br /> <br />Frontage - The front or frontage is that side of a lot abutting on a street or way and ordinarily regarded as <br />the front of the lot, but it shall not be considered as the ordinary sideline of a corner lot. <br /> <br />Garage, Private - Any accessory building or an accessory portion of a principal building designed or used <br /> <br />Page 6 of 69 <br />