Subdividers Ordinance

Dwelling, Single-Family: A building designed with accommodations for exclusive occupancy by one family or individual. Dwelling, Two-Family: A building designed for occupancy by two families or two individuals living independently of each other. Dwelling, Multiple or Multi-Family: A building designed for occupation by more than two families or individuals living independently of each other. Family is a group of individuals not necessarily related by blood, marriage, adoption, or guardianship that live together in a dwelling unit as a single housekeeping unit and maintain a common housekeeping management plan based on an intentionally structured relationship that provides organization and stability. Family Group Care Home: A community-based residential home that is licensed as a residential care facility under Iowa Code Chapter 135C or as a child foster care facility under Iowa Code Chapter 237. The care home provides room and board, personal care, habitation services, and supervision in a family environment for not more than eight developmentally disabled persons and any necessary support personnel. The term does not mean an “individual foster care home” licensed under Iowa Code Chapter 237. Farm is an area of not less than ten acres that is used for growing farm products such as vegetables, fruits, and grain, and for raising farm poultry and farm animals, and uses ancillary to those functions, including storage. Fee: An amount charged by the City to cover the cost of various City services. The City Council sets fees by resolution. Fence: A freestanding structure intended to provide privacy, prevent escape or intrusion, or to redirect a person’s direction of travel. A fence may be constructed of posts, wire, boards, stone, or any standard building materials. Feedlot, Commercial: A confined area where 500 or more cattle, swine, sheep, or 30,000 or more fowl are housed, penned, and fed. Flood Plain: Lands that are subject to a one percent or greater chance of flooding in any given year as established by FEMA or Corps of Engineers guidelines. Floor Area: The total area of all floors of a building as measured to the outside surfaces of exterior walls and not including halls, stairways, elevator shafts, attached garages, porches, and balconies. Frontage: All the property on one side of a street between two intersection streets (crossing or terminating), measured along the line of the street, or if the street is dead ended, then all of the property abutting on one side between an intersecting street and the dead end or the street. 10 Adopted November 14, 2007