Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
Source: Official source
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Building alteration. A change or rearrangement in Clinic. Any establishment where patients are
the structural supports, exterior appearance, or examined and treated by one or more health care
removal of features otherwise affecting the exterior providers, such as, but not limited to, physicians,
appearance of a building. dentists, psychologists, or social workers. Clinics
may include laboratory services and facilities for
Buildings, attached. Two or more independent ambulatory or outpatient surgical procedures.
buildings that share at least one common party wall
but have full building separation and independent Coastal AE Zone. The portion of the coastal high
principal entries; not free-standing. Attached hazard area with wave heights between 1.5 feet and
buildings may or may not have common ownership. 3.0 feet and bounded by a line labeled the “Limit of
Moderate Wave Action” (LiMWA) on a Flood
Building, principal. The main roofed and walled Insurance Rate Map (FIRM). VE Zone floodplain
structure on a lot having the predominant area, construction standards are applied to development,
extent, and/or use. A lot may have more than one new construction, and substantial improvements in
principal building. When a garage is attached to the the Coastal AE Zone.
principal building in a substantial manner as by an
enclosed area with roof or common wall, it shall be Coastal high hazard area. An area of special flood
considered as a part of the principal building. hazard extending from offshore to the inland limit
of a primary frontal dune along an open coast and
any other area subject to high velocity wave action

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