Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
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Hazard Area (SFHA) landward of a VE zone in which separately described in a deed or on a plan
the principal sources of flooding are astronomical recorded in the Cumberland County Registry of
high tides, storm surges, or tsunamis, not riverine Deeds; b) a contiguous combination of such lots
sources. These areas may be subject to wave under common ownership and designated as one
effects, velocity flows, erosion, scour, or unit for development; or c) a newly established
combinations of these forces. The floodplain parcel meeting all the dimensional requirements of
development and construction standards for VE the zone in which it is located.
Zones will be applied in the Coastal AE Zone.
Lot, nonconforming. A lot which, at the effective
Locally-established datum. For purposes of the date of adoption or amendment of this Code, does
floodplain ordinance, an elevation established for a not meet the minimum lot area or minimum street
specific site to which other elevation at the site are frontage requirements of the zone in which it is
referenced. This elevation is generally not located.
referenced to the National Geodetic Vertical Datum
(NGVD), North American Vertical Datum (NAVD), Lot, through. A lot that fronts upon two parallel
or any other established datum and is used in areas streets, or which fronts upon two streets which do
where mean sea level data is too far from a specific not intersect at the boundaries of the lot.
site to be practically used.
Lot, flag. A lot platted so that the main building site
Lodging house. A house, building or portion area (the “flag”) is set back from the street on
thereof containing five or more rooming units, as which it fronts, and includes an access strip (the
well as common areas, and providing such units to “pole”) connecting the