[Ord. #87-017, A2]
As used in this chapter:
ACREAGE
Shall mean any parcel of land which is not a lot, as defined
in this section and those areas where a legal subdivision has declared
such parcel as acreage.
BLOCK
Shall mean the area of land within a subdivision, which area
is entirely bounded by streets, highways or ways, except alleys, or
the exterior boundary or boundaries of the subdivision.
CITY STREET
Shall mean any duly dedicated street, avenue or the like
which the City has accepted and regularly maintains, or which the
County duly accepted and regularly maintained prior to the incorporation
of the City, or upon which public funds have been expended for improvements
or rights-of-way used by the public generally.
COLLECTOR STREET
Shall mean a street, intermediate in importance between a
local street and either a major or secondary thoroughfare, which collector
street has the purpose of collecting local traffic and carrying it
to a thoroughfare.
CONDOMINIUM
Shall mean an estate in real property consisting of an undivided
interest in common in a portion of a parcel of real property together
with a separate interest in space in a residential, industrial or
commercial building on the real property, such as an apartment, office
or store. A condominium may include, in addition, a separate interest
in other portions of the real property.
CONVERSION
Shall mean the creation of separate ownership of existing
real property together with a separate interest in space of residential,
industrial or commercial buildings.
DESIGN
Shall mean:
a.
Street alignments, grades, and widths;
b.
Drainage and sanitary facilities and utilities, including alignments
and grades;
c.
Location and size of all required easements and rights-of-way;
d.
Fire roads and fire breaks;
e.
Lot size and configuration;
h.
Land to be dedicated for park or recreational purposes;
i.
Other specific physical requirements in the plan and configuration
of the entire subdivision as may be necessary to ensure consistency
with or implementation of the General Plan or any adopted specific
plan.
EASEMENT
Shall mean an easement dedicated to the City, which shall
be continuing and irrevocable unless formally abandoned by the City,
and any other easement whether owned by a public entity, public utility
or private party.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT (EIR)
Shall mean a detailed statement under the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA) describing and analyzing the significant environmental
effects of a project and discussing ways to mitigate or avoid the
effects.
FINAL MAP
Shall mean a map showing a subdivision for which a tentative
and final map are required by the Subdivision Map Act designed to
be recorded in the office of the County Recorder.
GENERAL PLAN
Shall mean the General Plan of the City, adopted June 30,
1975, and any amendments thereto.
IMPROVEMENTS
Shall mean streets, storm drainage facilities, utilities
and landscaping to be installed, or agreed to be installed, by the
subdivider on the land to be used for public or private streets, highways
and easements, as are necessary for the general use of the lot owners
in the subdivision and local neighborhood traffic and drainage needs
as a condition precedent to the approval and acceptance of the final
map. Other specific improvements or type of improvements, the installation
of which, either by, or by a combination of, the subdivider, public
agencies, private utilities or any other entity approved by the City,
is necessary to ensure consistency with, or implementation of the
General Plan, or any adopted specific plan. Improvements shall be
constructed in accordance with City specifications as required by
the City Engineer and/or, when applicable, with standards as adopted
by local utility companies and approved by the City Engineer.
LOT
Shall mean a parcel or portion of land separate from other
parcels or portions by descriptions, as on a subdivision map or parcel
map, or by such other map approved by the County or by the City under
the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act and of City ordinances in
effect at the time of such approval for the purposes of sale, lease
or financing.
LOT LINE ADJUSTMENT
Shall mean a minor shift or rotation of an existing lot line
or other adjustments where a greater number of parcels than originally
existed is not created, as approved by the City Engineer and the Planning
Director.
MERGER
Shall mean the joining of two (2) or more contiguous parcels
of land under one (1) ownership into one (1) parcel.
PARCEL MAP
Shall mean a map showing a division of land of four (4) or
less parcels as required by this chapter, prepared in accordance with
the provisions of this chapter and the Subdivision Map Act.
PRIVATE STREET
Shall mean any street, accessway, or the like, lying in whole
or in part within a subdivision for which dedication and ownership
is privately held and is utilized as access to a development. Design
standards for private streets may be identical to City streets, or
may be constructed to less standards than City streets, as determined
by the City Engineer.
REMAINDER
Shall mean that portion of an existing parcel which is not
included as part of the subdivided land. The remainder is not considered
as part of the subdivision but must be shown on the required maps
as part of the area surrounding subdivision development.
SUBDIVIDER
Shall mean a person, firm, corporation, partnership or association
who proposes to divide, divides or causes to be divided, real property
into a subdivision for oneself or for others. Employees and consultants
of persons or entities, acting in that capacity, are not "subdividers".
SUBDIVISION
Shall mean the division, by any subdivider, of any unit or
units of improved or unimproved contiguous land or any portion thereof
shown on the latest equalized County assessment roll as a unit or
as contiguous units for the purpose of sale, lease or financing, whether
immediate or future. Property shall be considered as contiguous units,
even if it is separated by roads, streets, utility easements or railroad
rights-of-way.
SUBDIVISION
Shall mean and include a condominium project as defined herein
or in Section 1350 of the
Civil Code, or a community apartment project
as defined in Section 11004 of the
Business and Professions Code,
or the conversion of existing dwelling units to a stock cooperative,
as defined in Section 11003.2 of the
Business and Professions Code.
"Subdivision" shall include any division of land by gift or inheritance,
but not including a division for probate homestead. Any conveyance
of land to a governmental agency, public entity, public utilities
or subsidiary of a public utility for conveyance to that public utility
for rights-of-way shall not be considered a division of land for purposes
of computing the number of parcels.
TENTATIVE MAP
Shall mean a map made for the purpose of showing the design
and improvements of a proposed subdivision and the existing conditions
in and around it.
VESTING TENTATIVE MAP
Shall mean a tentative map for residential subdivision, as defined in Section 22-7 of this chapter, that have printed conspicuously on its face the words "Vesting Tentative Map" at the time it is filed in accordance with subsection
22-4.2, and is thereafter processed in accordance with the provisions of Section 22-7 of this chapter.
ZONING ORDINANCE
Shall mean the Zoning Ordinance of the City, or any ordinance enacted under zoning law
adopted June 30, 1975 and any amendments thereto.