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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C. Designed to be self-propelled or permanently Relocation. The act or process of taking a structure
towable by a motor vehicle; or object and moving it from its current location or
D. Designed primarily not for use as a permanent orientation to a new location or orientation.
dwelling but as temporary living quarters for
recreational, camping, travel, or seasonal use; Riverine. Relating to, formed by, or resembling a
and river (including tributaries), stream, brook, etc.
E. Registered as a motor vehicle with tires
attached and on the ground. Residential care facility (small). A facility which
provides, on a regular basis, medical or non-medical
Recreation and amusement center. A facilities care and services for up to 16 individuals in separate
equipped for the conduct of sports and athletic dwelling or rooming units. Said facility must be
events or leisure time recreation activities. Such licensed as a board care, residential care facility or
facilities may limit admission either to members or equivalent pursuant to the regulations promulgated
to persons paying an entrance fee. Recreation and by the State of Maine Department of Health and
amusement centers may be indoor or outdoor. Human Services.
They do not include stadiums.
Residential care facility (large). A facility which
Recycling facility. A facility engaged exclusively in provides, on a regular basis, medical or non-medical
the collection, separation, recovery and sale or care and services for 17 or more individuals in
reuse of materials that would otherwise be disposed separate dwelling or rooming units. Said facility
of or processed as waste or the mechanized must be licensed as a board care, residential care
separation and treatment of waste, other than facility or equivalent pursuant to the regulations
through combustion, and the creation and recovery promulgated by the State of Maine Department of
of reusable materials other than as a fuel for the Health and Human Services.
generation of electricity.
Restaurant. Any food service establishment with
Regulatory floodway. The channel of a river or indoor seating capacity for ten or more patrons.
other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that
must be reserved in order to discharge the base Retail. Any shop or store offering goods or
flood without cumulatively increasing the water merchandise to the general public for direct
surface elevation more than a designated height. consumption and not for resale, or food service
When not designated on the Flood Insurance Rate establishment with indoor seating capacity for nine
Map (FIRM), it is considered to be the channel of a or fewer patrons. Retail shall not include gasoline,
river or other watercourse and the adjacent land diesel, or propane fuel sales.
areas to a distance of 1/2 the width of the floodplain,
as measured from the normal high-water mark to Riprap. Rocks, irregularly shaped, and at least six
the upland limit of the floodplain. inches in diameter, used for erosion control and soil 3-16 | CITY OF PORTLAND LAND USE CODE DEFINITIONS

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