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.
"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.
"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.
"Slope"
means the land gradient described as the vertical rise divided
by the horizontal run, and expressed in percent.
"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)