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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River. A free-flowing body of water including its Self-storage facility. A facility for the storage of
associated floodplain wetlands from that point at personal property, where individual renters control
which it provides drainage for a watershed of 25 and access individual storage spaces. Self-storage
square miles to its mouth. facilities may be designed with individual storage
spaces located within a fully enclosed, climate
Riverine. Relating to, formed by, or resembling a controlled building, with individual storage spaces
river (including tributaries), stream, brook, etc. accessed from the outdoors, or with a combination
of storage spaces. Administrative offices for the
Roadway. That portion of a street between the facility, and retail sales of related items, such as
regularly established curblines, or that part of a moving supplies may be included.
street or alley devoted to vehicular or bicycle traffic.
Sexually explicit. The display or depiction of sex
Rooming unit. One or more rooms forming a single organs during actual or simulated sexual intercourse
unit used, or intended to be used, for living and or sexual acts as defined in 17 A M.R.S. § 251.
sleeping purposes by an individual or a family, but
not designed for food preparation. In a suite of Shoreline. The normal high-water line, or upland
rooms, each room that provides sleeping edge of a freshwater or coastal wetland.
accommodation shall be counted as one rooming
unit for the purpose of this chapter. Sidewalk. That portion of a street not included in
the roadway, and devoted in whole or part to
Sapling. A tree species that is less than two inches pedestrian traffic.
in diameter at four and one half feet above ground
level. Sign. A structure, device, figure, display, message
placard, or other contrivance, or any part thereof,
Sea Level Rise-Base Flood Elevation (SLR-BFE). situated outdoors or indoors, which is designed,
13 feet NAVD88, or the predicted height of flood constructed, intended, or used to advertise, provide
waters that may occur as the result of a 100 year information in the nature of advertising, provide
storm in conjunction with 3.9 feet of base sea level historical, cultural, archeological, ideological,
rise. political, religious, or social information, or direct or
attract attention to an object, person, institution,
Sea Level Rise-Design Flood Elevation (SLR- business, product, service, message, event, or
DFE). The minimum elevation required for location by any means, including words, letters,
a finished ground floor level in the Coastal Flood figures, designs, symbols, fixtures, colors, or
Resilience Overlay Zone (CFROZ). illumination. CITY OF PORTLAND LAND USE CODE | 3-17 DEFINITIONS

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