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"Family" means an individual, or two or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption or a group of not more than five persons, excluding servants, who are not related by blood, marriage or adoption, living together in a dwelling unit.

"Family home services" means and includes the following:

(1) "Adult daycare home" means a regular family abode of a person or persons providing personal care, or special care for less than twenty-four hours to more than one but not more than six adults who are not related by blood or marriage to the person(s) providing the services.

(2) "Adult family home" means a regular family abode of a person or persons providing personal care, or special care, room and board to more than one but not more than six adults who are not related by blood or marriage to the person(s) providing the services.

(3) "Family daycare providers" means a licensed child care provider who regularly provides early childhood education and early learning services for less than twenty-four hours, for not more than twelve children in the family living quarters, including children who reside at the home.

(4) "Foster family home" means a dwelling unit in which foster care is provided on a twenty-four-hour basis for not more than six unrelated children, expectant mothers or persons with developmental disabilities in the family abode of the person or persons under whose direct care and supervision the child, expectant mother or disabled person is placed as part of the family, and the dwelling unit is governed by the state foster care home licensing provisions and conducted in accordance with state requirements.

(5) Group Care Facility, Small. "Small group care facility" means a facility for handicapped, physically disabled or developmentally disabled adults, or dependent or pre-delinquent children, plus house parents, providing facilities residentially oriented in a home-like environment directed to allow a degree of community participation and human dignity not provided in an institutional atmosphere for only six or fewer such persons, plus house parents. Does not include "halfway house."

(6) "Halfway house" means a home for juvenile delinquents, adult offenders, those leaving correctional and/or mental institutions, or a rehabilitation center for alcohol and/or drug users providing residentially oriented facilities which allow rehabilitation or social adjustment for persons who are in need for supervision or assistance in becoming socially reoriented but not in need of institutional care. Such facility provides a reintroduction of residents into a normal community life by providing a stable living situation rather than incarceration or a reintroduction without home, job or social reinforcement. Does not include a state licensed crisis residential facility as that term is used by statute.

(7) Licensed Boarding Home, Small. "Small licensed boarding home" means any home or other institution however named which is advertised, announced or maintained for the express or implied purpose of providing domiciliary assisted living services and enhanced adult residential care to three to six aged persons not related by blood or marriage.

(8) "Safe/shelter home" means a place of temporary refuge (e.g., shelter) which includes access to adequate food and clothing offered on a twenty-four-hour, seven-day-per-week basis to victims of domestic violence and their children. A safe home is a component of or has a working agreement with a domestic violence service for up to two lodging units. A shelter home includes three or more lodging units.

Feedlot. See "animal feeding operation (AFO)."

"Flea market" means an occasional or periodic market usually held in an open area, but which may be held indoors, where an individual or groups of individual sellers offer goods for sale to the public. A key element to flea markets is that there are no long-term leases between the sellers and operators and that often the sellers use their own vehicles for display or set up temporary tables or booths for their wares. (See "yard sale.")

"Floriculture" means the cultivation and management of ornamental and especially flowering plants.

"Fraternal organizations, lodges and clubs" means a group of people formally organized for a common interest, usually cultural, religious, or entertainment, with regular meetings, rituals, and informal written membership requirements. May include eating facilities or meeting or reception halls. (Ord. 2065, § 2 (Exh. A), 2019; Ord. 2046, § 2 (Exh. A), 2018; Ord. 2018, § 2, 2017; Ord. 1634, § 198, 2004.)