As used in this title:
"Alley"
means a public way for pedestrian, equestrian, or vehicle use which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting properties.
"Approved"
when used to refer to tentative map or other subdivision or reconfiguration action means having received the consent, endorsement, or permission of the city or any advisory agency and includes those maps or actions which have been conditionally approved.
"CEQA"
means the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970 as amended.
"City"
means the city of Temecula and/or its employees, consultants, agents, or designees.
"Consistent"
means free from variation or contradiction. State law requires consistency between a general plan and implementation measures such as the subdivision ordinance.
"County"
means the county of Riverside.
"County recorder"
means the recorder for the county of Riverside.
"Development code"
means Title 17 of the city of Temecula Municipal Code, including all text and maps, as it may be amended from time to time.
"Design"
means (1) street alignments, grades, and widths; (2) drainage and sanitary facilities and utilities, including alignments and grades thereof; (3) location and size of all required easements and rights-ofway; (4) fire roads and firebreaks; (5) lot size and configuration; (6) traffic access; (7) grading; (8) land to be dedicated for park or recreational purposes; (9) such other specific physical requirements in the plan and configuration of the entire subdivision as may be necessary to incur consistency with, or implementation of the general plan or any applicable specific plan; and (10) the linking of components of the built environment, thereby establishing a sense of order and organization to what otherwise can be perceived as disjointed or haphazard development.
"Director"
means the director of community development or his or her designee.
"General plan"
means the general plan of the city of Temecula, including all adopted elements and maps, as it may be amended from time to time.
"Improvement"
means any street work and utilities to be installed, or agreed to be installed, by the subdivider on the land to be used for public or private streets, highways, ways, 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 tract map. It also means any other specific improvements or types of improvements, the installation of which, either by the subdivider, by public agencies, by private utilities, by any other entity approved by the local agency, or by a combination of them, is necessary to ensure consistency with, or implementation of the general plan or any applicable specific plan.
"Lot"
means a parcel of real property with a separate and distinct number or other designation shown on an approved map such as a final tract map, parcel map, record of survey, other plot, or described as a separate and distinct lot by a metes and bounds description, which is filed in the office of the county recorder.
"May"
is permissive.
"Net area"
excludes area on a lot or lots identified or designated for utilization as dedications and easements for access to ingress to or egress from property easements for streets or pedestrian/equestrian purposes irrespective of whether such easements are public or private.
"Park and recreation master plan"
means the park and recreation master plan for the city of Temecula, including all adopted elements and maps, as it may be amended from time to time.
"Section"
means a section of this title, unless some statute or other ordinance is referred to.
"Shall"
is a mandatory directive.
"Slope"
means the land gradient described as the vertical rise divided by the horizontal run, and expressed in percent.
"Subdivider"
means the landowner or the owner's designee.
"Subdivision Map Act"
means Section 66410 et seq. of the Government Code.
"TCSD"
means the Temecula community services district.
"TND"
means traditional neighborhood development.
"Tentative map"
means a map prepared in accordance with the provisions of this title and for the purpose of showing the design and improvement of a proposed subdivision and the existing conditions in and around it, and it need not be based upon an accurate and detailed final survey of the property.
"Vesting tentative map"
means a tentative map prepared in accordance with the provisions of this title that shall have printed conspicuously on its face the words "Vesting Tentative Map" at the time it is filed.
"Zoning district"
means a specifically delineated area, district or zone within the city in which regulations and requirements uniformly govern the use, placement, spacing and size of land and buildings.
(Ord. 99-23 § 1)