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Engineering Minimum Design Standards and Specifications means the design standards and construction specifications issued by the engineering department for municipal water, wastewater, storm sewer, and street paving improvements.

ETJ means Extraterritorial Jurisdiction.

Existing Structures means structures , for the purpose of determining rates, for which the start of construction commenced before the effective date of the FIRM or before September 2, 1982, for FIRMs effective before that date.

Existing Vegetation means the plant cover, floristic composition, or vegetation structure occurring in a specific place at a specific time and must be healthy and non-invasive.

Exterior Architectural Feature means the style, design, general arrangement, and components of all the outside surfaces of a structure which characterize the landmark or district.

Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) means the unincorporated area, not part of any other city, which is contiguous to the corporate limits of Lubbock as defined in the Texas Local Government Code, Title 2 , Chapter 42, and extends from such limits a distance of five miles.

Facade means the exterior wall of a building that is set along a street , not including an alley .

Facade Transparency means the amount of transparent window glass or other openings in the facade of a building , relative to the overall surface area of the facade .

Family means one or more persons related by blood, adoption or marriage, or not more than three unrelated persons living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit. Residents of group homes are included within this definition.

Farm, Ranch, or Orchard means land used for growing of usual farm products and/or raising of usual farm poultry and farm animals and including the necessary accessory uses for raising, treating, and storing products raised on the premises, but not including the commercial feeding of offal or garbage to swine or other animals and not including any type of agriculture or husbandry specifically prohibited by ordinance or law. This definition includes agricultural field crop or orchards ; agricultural animal husbandry ; crop production; feedlots; game farms ; hatchery (fish, fowl, or poultry ); horticulture ; indoor crop production or farming; livestock grazing or pasturing; and private stable or riding facility.

Farming, Landscaping and Horticultural Sales and Services means the sale of products either cultivated by agricultural methods or sold to assist with the cultivation of agriculture. This definition includes agricultural implement and tractor sales and service; feed grinding and processing; irrigation intake or pump; irrigation sales and services, including pumps and equipment; dairy supply dealer; and feed stores.

FEMA means the Federal Emergency Management Administration.

FIRM means the Flood Insurance Rate Map .

Fixtures means the assembly that holds the lamp in a lighting system which is designed to provide light output control. This includes, but is not limited to, reflectors (mirrors) or refractors (lens), the ballast, housing, and the attachment parts.

Flood Administrator means the City Engineer or his or her appointee who administers and implements provisions related to floodplain management .

Flood Hazard Boundary Map means an official map of a community issued by FEMA , where the boundaries of the flood , mudflow and related erosion areas having special hazards have been designated.

Flood Insurance Rate Map means an official map of a community on which the Federal Emergency Management Agency has delineated both the areas of special flood hazard areas and other flood areas and the risk premium zones applicable to the community.

Flood Insurance Study (FIS) means a compilation and presentation of flood risk data for specific watercourses, lakes, and coastal flood hazard areas within a community. When a flood study is completed for the NFIP , the information and maps are assembled into an FIS . The FIS report contains detailed flood elevation data in flood profiles and data tables.

Flood or Flooding means a general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of two or more acres of normally dry land area or of two or more properties from: a. The overflow of inland or tidal waters. b. The unusual and rapid accumulation of runoff of surface waters from any source.

Flood Protection System means those physical structural works which have been constructed specifically to modify flooding in order to reduce the extent of the areas within a community subject to a special flood hazard and the extent of the depths of associated flooding . Such a system typically includes hurricane tidal barriers, dams, reservoirs, levees, or dikes. These specialized flood modifying works are those constructed in conformance with sound engineering standards.