Part 2 — Unified Development Ordinance Definitions
City of Andover Unified Development Manual

FAMILY: Any of the following groups of people residing together in the same dwelling unit. (See HOUSEHOLD.) 1. Two or more people related by kinship, marriage, adoption, guardianship, or duly-authorized custodial relationship. 2. Two unrelated people. 3. Two unrelated people and any children descended from or adopted by either of them, or over which at least one has a guardianship or custodial relationship. FARM TRACTOR: A motor vehicle designed and used as a powered farm implement, operated with or without other attached farm implements. See SELF-PROPELLED FARM IMPLEMENT. FARM TRAILER: A vehicle without motive power, designed to be towed by a motor vehicle, and designed and used primarily as a farm vehicle. FENCE: An unroofed free-standing structure, generally constructed of posts embedded in the ground, with panels or pickets between, and without a foundation, footing or piers. Fences may be built of wood, metal, glass, plastics or other materials, and are intended to provide screening, privacy, partition, protection, confinement, or define a boundary. (See WALL.) FINAL PLAT: See PLAT/FINAL PLAT. FINAL REVIEW: The review at which final approval of the plans of a proposed project may (or may not) be given by City staff, the Planning Commission, the Site Plan Review Committee, or the Board of Zoning Appeals.
FLAG LOT: A lot, tract or parcel of land where the bulk of the property is connected to a road or street only by a narrow strip of land just wide enough for a driveway. (See Subdivision Regulations, Section 8-103B2 for Access Requirements.)

Diagram: Flag Lot
FLOODPLAIN: Area identified on a Federal Emergency Management Agency Flood Insurance Rate Map as a Special Flood Hazard Area . (See FEMA Flood Map Service Center website.) 1. 1% Annual Chance Floodplain: Areas that will be inundated by a flood event having a 1-percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. • Also referred to as the base flood area or 100-year flood area . 2. Moderate Flood Hazard Areas: Areas between the limits of the 1% annual chance floodplain and the area that will be inundated by a flood event having a 0.2-percent chance
of being equaled or exceeded in any given year • Also referred to as the 500-year flood area .

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