Land Development Ordinance - Amended 9-2-2025

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(39) POST-FIRM (Flood Damage Prevention). The term defining construction or other development for which the “start of construction” occurred on or after the effective date of the initial Flood Insurance Rate Map for the area. (40) PRE-FIRM (Flood Damage Prevention). The term defining construction or other development for which the “start of construction” occurred before the effective date of the initial Flood Insurance Rate Map for the area. (41) PRELIMINARY PLAT. The term defining a tentative plat, including supporting data, indicating a proposed subdivision design prepared by a civil engineer, surveyor, landscape architect, architect, or land planner, including but not limited to, street layout, proposed utilities, ingress and egress, number and size of lots, off-site improvements and other requirements and regulations of the Land Development Ordinance pertaining to a preliminary plat.

(42) PREMISES (Building) . The term defining any lot or parcel of land inclusive of any building or improvements located thereon.

(43) PRINCIPAL BUILDING/USE. The term defining the principal purpose for which a zoning lot or the main structure thereon is designed, arranged, or intended, and for which it is or may be used, occupied, or maintained. No building or structure may be used for any purpose other than the permitted use in the zoning district in which the principal building or use is located. For purposes of this term accessory uses in accordance with the Land Development Ordinance are not principal buildings or uses.

(44) PRINCIPAL ENTRANCE. The term defining the main point of access for pedestrians or persons into a building.

(45) PRINCIPAL FRONTAGE (Form-Based Districts). The term defining the address on corner lots, the private frontage designated to bear the address and principal entrance to the building, and to measure the minimum lot width. Prescriptions for the parking layers

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