Portland Land Use Code

Citation: Portland Land Use Code
Parent Document: Portland Land Use Code
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
Original Source: https://www.portlandmaine.gov/asset/a5dcd1dc-4117-40b3-b3da-74a56919e14b ↗

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Building, accessory. A detached roofed and walled Child care facility, small. Per 22 M.R.S. §8301-A(1-
structure that is incidental and subordinate in area A)(E), a small child care facility is a house or other
and extent, and/or use to the principal building(s) on place, not the residence of the operator, in which a
the property. A lot may have more than one person maintains or otherwise carries out a
accessory building. regularly scheduled program, for any part of a day,
providing care and protection for 3 to 12 children
Building addition. Any increase to footprint, floor between 6 weeks and 12 years of age.
area, or volume of an existing building.
Clinic. Any establishment where patients are
Building alteration. A change or rearrangement in examined and treated by one or more health care
the structural supports, exterior appearance, or providers, such as, but not limited to, physicians,
removal of features otherwise affecting the exterior dentists, psychologists, or social workers. Clinics
appearance of a building. may include laboratory services and facilities for
ambulatory or outpatient surgical procedures.
Buildings, attached. Two or more independent
buildings that share at least one common party wall Coastal AE Zone. The portion of the coastal high
but have full building separation and independent hazard area with wave heights between 1.5 feet and
principal entries; not free-standing. Attached 3.0 feet and bounded by a line labeled the “Limit of
buildings may or may not have common ownership. Moderate Wave Action” (LiMWA) on a Flood
Insurance Rate Map (FIRM). VE Zone floodplain
Building, principal. The main roofed and walled construction standards are applied to development,
structure on a lot having the predominant area, new construction, and substantial improvements in
extent, and/or use. A lot may have more than one the Coastal AE Zone.
principal building. When a garage is attached to the
principal building in a substantial manner as by an Coastal high hazard area. An area of special flood
enclosed area with roof or common wall, it shall be hazard extending from offshore to the inland limit
considered as a part of the principal building. of a primary frontal dune along an open coast and
any other area subject to high velocity wave action CITY OF PORTLAND LAND USE CODE | 3-3 DEFINITIONS

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