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Family: A person living alone, two or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption, or a group of not more than five unrelated persons living together as a single nonprofit housekeeping unit. “Family” includes domestic employees. “Family” does not include a group occupying a boarding house, lodging house, motel or hotel, fraternity or sorority house. (Former Section CZ#A312-8)

Family Day Care Center: (See Residential Use Types in Section D: Use Types.) (See also, “Community Care Facility” and “Family Day Care Home.”)

Family Day Care Home: (See Residential Use Types, Family Day Care Home, in Section D: Use Types.) (See also, “Community Care Facility” and “Family Day Care Center.”)

Farm Employee: Any person who derives more than half of his total livelihood as an “agricultural employee” as defined by the Alatorre-Zenovich-Dunlap-Berman Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975, (California Labor Code Sec. 1140.4(b). (Former Section CZ#A312-7)

Farm Employee Housing Use Type: (See, Residential Use Types, Farm Employee Housing, in Section D: Use Types.)

Farming: The management or cultivation of land for the production of crops, livestock, or timber. (Former Section CZ#A312-8)

Farmed Wetland: (See, Agricultural Land, Transitional)

Feasible: Capable of being accomplished in a successful manner within a reasonable period of time, taking into account economic, environmental, social, and technological factors. (Former Section CZ#A312-8)

Federal or Federal Government: The Government of the United States of America. (Former Section CZ#A312-2)

Feed Lot: A large yard with pens or stables, other than those part of a typical livestock ranch, where cattle, sheep, or similar animals are kept for finishing, shipment or slaughter. (Former Section CZ#A312-8)

Fill: A deposit of earth or other material by artificial means. (See also, Fill of Wetlands.) (Former Section CZ#A312-8)

Fill of Wetlands: Earth or other substance or material, including piling, placed for the purpose of erecting structures thereon, placed in a wetland or a submerged area. (Former Section CZ#A312-8)

Finding: A specific determination made relative to a given set of circumstances upon which a subsequent decision will be predicated. (Former Section CZ#A312-8)

Finished Grade: (See, Grade, Finished)

Fire Station: Any structure used for the purpose of housing fire trucks, fire-fighting personnel and related equipment owned and operated by a district providing fire protection, or a fire protection entity organized pursuant to Health and Safety Code Sections 14825 and following. (Former Section CZ#A312-8)

Fish Waste Processing: (See, Animal and/or Fish Waste Product Processing)

Fish and Wildlife Habitat Management: (See, Natural Resource Use Types, Fish and Wildlife Habitat Management, in Section D: Use Types.)

Flag Lot: (See, Lot, Flag)

Flea Market: (See, Swap Lot.)

Flood: A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas as a result of the overflow of inland or tidal water and/or the unusual and rapid accumulation or run-off of surface waters from any source. (Former Section CZ#A312-8)

Flood, 100-Year (or Base Flood): A flood having a one percent (1%) chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. (Former Section CZ#A312-8)

Flood Hazard Areas or 100-Year Flood Plain: Those areas subject to inundation within the 100-year floodway and flood plain as identified on the Federal Insurance Administration’s Federal Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) for Humboldt County. Tsunami runup areas identified on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 100-year recurrence maps, by other scientific or historic studies and other known areas of tsunami risk. (Former Section CZ#A312-10)

Flood Plain: The area subject to inundation by a 100-year or base flood. (See also, Flood Hazard Areas.) (Former Section CZ#A312-8)

Flood Plain Fringe: The part of the flood plain outside of the floodway. (Former Section CZ#A312-8)

Floodgate: A structure located within a levee or dike with a valve designed to permit one way drainage of surface water from land to a wetland, river, or estuary and to prevent inundation of the land. (See also, Tidegate) (Former Section CZ#A312-8)

Floodway (or Regulatory 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 foot. (Former Section CZ#A312-8)

Floor Area: The total of the gross horizontal areas of all floors, including usable basements and cellars, below the roof and within the outer surfaces of the exterior walls of principal or accessory buildings. (Former Section CZ#A312-8)

Front Lot Line: (See, Lot Line, Front)

Front Yard: (See, Yard, Front)

Frontage: The length of any property line of a lot, which lot line abuts a legally accessible street or other right-of-way. (Former Section CZ#A312-8)