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Article 11: Interpretation and Definitions
Section 11.5. Terms and Uses Defined
11.4.2. Exceptions and Variations
June 23, 2017
Morrisville, NC
Page 11-40
Unified Development Ordinance
F
RONT OR
F
RONTAGE
The “front” or “frontage” is that side of a lot abutting on a street or way, and ordinarily regarded as
the front of the lot, but it shall not be considered as the ordinary side line of a corner lot.
F
RONTAGE
R
OAD
A road that is parallel to any freeway or expressway and provides access to adjacent land.
F
ULL
C
UTOFF
A fixture light distribution where no light intensity is emitted at or above a
horizontal plane drawn through the bottom of the fixture and no more than
ten percent of the lamp’s light intensity is emitted at or above an angle ten
degrees below that horizontal plane, at all lateral angles around the fixture.
F
ULL
C
UTOFF
W
ALL
P
ACK
A type of light fixture typically flush-mounted on a vertical wall surface that emits no light above the
horizontal plane of the fixture.
F
UNCTIONALLY
D
EPENDENT
F
ACILITY
A facility that cannot be used for its intended purpose unless it is located in close proximity to water,
such as a docking or port facility necessary for the loading and unloading of cargo or passengers,
shipbuilding, or ship repair. The term does not include long-term storage, manufacture, sales, or service
facilities.
F
UNERAL
H
OME
An establishment engaged in undertaking services such as preparing the dead for burial, and arranging
and managing funerals.
F
UTURE
C
ONDITIONS
F
LOOD
The flood having a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year based on
future conditions hydrology.
F
UTURE
C
ONDITIONS
F
LOOD
E
LEVATION
A determination of the water surface elevations of the one percent annual chance flood based on future
conditions hydrology as published in the Flood Insurance Study. This elevation, when combined with the
freeboard, establishes the “Regulatory Flood Protection Elevation” in Future Conditions Flood Hazard
Areas.
F
UTURE
C
ONDITIONS
F
LOOD
H
AZARD
A
REA
The land area that would be inundated by the one percent annual chance flood based on future
conditions hydrology.
F
UTURE
C
ONDITIONS
H
YDROLOGY
The flood discharges associated with projected land-use conditions based on the 1999 version of the
Town of Morrisville Land Use Plan, and without consideration of projected future construction of flood
detention structures or projected future hydraulic modifications within a stream or other waterway such
as bridge and culvert construction, fill, and excavation. Future conditions flood discharges are published
in the Flood Insurance Study.