Family Day Care. See “Registered or certified family child care home” and “Child care facility.”

Farming or farm use means the utilization of land, including buildings customarily provided in conjunction with a farm use, for the purpose of generating income by raising, harvesting or selling crops, or for the feeding, breeding, management and sale of, or the product of, livestock, poultry, fur-bearing animals, or honeybees, or for dairying and the sale of dairy products, or for any other agricultural or horticultural use, animal husbandry, growing Christmas trees, timber agricultural or any combination thereof, including the preparation or processing and storage of products raised on such land for human and animal use, and disposal by marketing or otherwise. It does not include the construction and use of dwellings, or marijuana businesses.

Farm stands means a structure designed and used for the sale of farm crops or livestock grown on the farm, or grown on the farm and other farm operations in Oregon, including the sale of retail incidental items and fee-based activity to promote the sale of farm crops or livestock sold at the farm stand if the annual sale of incidental items and fees from promotional activity do not make up more than 25 percent of the total annual sales of the farm stand. “Farm stand” does not include structures designed for occupancy as a residence or for activity other than the sale of farm crops or livestock and does not include structures for banquets, public gatherings or public entertainment.

Fire apparatus access road means a road that provides fire apparatus access from a fire station to a facility, building or portion thereof. This is a general term inclusive of all other terms such as fire lane, public street, private street, parking lot lane and access roadway.

Fire lane means a road or other passageway developed to allow the passage of fire apparatus. A fire lane is not necessarily intended for vehicular traffic other than fire apparatus.

Fire break means a break in the ground cover fuels as specified by the fire protection agency involved.

Fish passage device means any manmade structure that is or may be used to enable fish to pass over a dam to move upstream.

Fish protection device means any manmade structure, such as a fish screen, which is or may be used to prevent fish from entering into or passing through conduits, penstocks, and other water-conducting structures or devices connected to a hydroelectric facility.

Flag lot means a lot or parcel that has access to a road or street by means of a narrow strip of lot that does not meet the typical minimum lot frontage standard. See BDC 3.8.400(B).

Flex mobility space means an area designated for shared use by some combination of transportation modes including Cascades East Transit vehicles, small-wheeled vehicles (e.g., bikes, e-bikes, e-scooters, etc.), transportation network company (TNC) vehicles and modular or permanent electric vehicle infrastructure.

Flood/flooding means a general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from:

Flood hazard area means the relatively flat area of lowlands adjoining the channel of a river, stream, watercourse, lake or reservoir.

Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) means the official map on which the Federal Insurance Administration has delineated both the areas of special flood hazards and the risk premium zones applicable to the community.

Flood Insurance Study means the official report provided by the Federal Insurance Administration that includes flood profiles, the Flood Boundary-Floodway Map, and the water surface elevation of the base flood.

Floodway means the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one foot as designated on FIRM.

Floor area means the area measured in feet of horizontal space intended to be a floored surface contained within a building or portion thereof, measured inside of the external walls, including slab-on-grade and exclusive of vent shafts, and courts and basements. When calculating floor area, stairs are counted once unless the area under the stairs is part of the dwelling unit’s floor plan, in which case the stairs are counted twice. Portions of the floor area with a sloped ceiling measuring less than five feet from the finished floor to the finished ceiling are not considered as contributing to the floor area.

Floor area ratio (FAR) means a measurement of building density calculated by dividing the gross enclosed floor area of a building measured to the inside of the external walls by the land area of the development.

Floor, lowest habitable means the lowest floor of the lowest enclosed area (including basement). An unfinished or flood resistant enclosure, usable solely for parking of vehicles, building access or storage, in an area other than a basement area, is not considered a building’s lowest habitable floor; provided, that such enclosure is not built so as to render the structure in violation of the applicable nonelevation design requirements of this code.

Food and beverage services means restaurants, cafes, and similar types of land uses that prepare and serve edible goods for consumption by the customer including beverage service.

Forest management plan means an operation plan to reach landowner objectives and assures public benefits as they relate to producing timber and other values as determined by the Deschutes County Assessor. It shall include a cover map, basic forest stand description data, treatment opportunities, landowner objectives and a schedule for implementing the forest management plan pursuant to ORS 526.455.

Frequent transit route means any corridor with route(s) in a community if there are at least two transit vehicles scheduled to arrive on the same transit route no more than 60 minutes apart.

Frontage means that portion of a parcel or lot of property that abuts a street or highway. See also BDC Chapter 3.8, Development Alternatives, for other meanings of frontage.

Frontage Street or Road. See “Street or road.”

Functional classification means the classification given to streets (e.g., “local, collector, or arterial”) by the City’s Transportation System Plan (TSP), City of Bend Standards Manual, by adopted County plans, and the Oregon Department of Transportation.