Definitions set forth in this chapter shall be supplementary
to the definitions contained in the Subdivision Map Act.
(Ord. 861 § 3.01, 1981)
The designation of any particular officer or body in this title
shall mean the particular officer or body of the city.
(Ord. 861 § 3.02, 1981)
“Arterial (artery)” means a street of general city
or city-county importance, which carries traffic on four or more moving
lanes between different areas of the city and county, and which may
have a median strip divider.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(a), 1981)
“Collector street” means that which collects traffic
from a minor street, a subdivision or other area and carries said
traffic to an arterial street.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(b), 1981)
A. The
“general common areas” means the entire condominium project
except those elements granted or reserved.
B. The
“limited common areas” means those areas to be reserved
for the use of a certain number of condominium units, such as special
corridors, walkways, sanitary services common to the units of a particular
floor.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(c), 1981)
“Community apartment project” means an undivided
interest in land coupled with the right to exclusive occupancy of
the apartment located therein.
(Ord. 886 § 1, 1982)
“Community housing project” includes any of the
following residential uses: a condominium development, a community
apartment project, a stock cooperative or a membership association.
(Ord. 886 § 1, 1982)
A condominium is 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, the boundaries of which
are described on a recorded final map, parcel map, condominium plan
or other document in sufficient detail to locate all boundaries thereof.
The area within such boundaries may be filled with air, earth, or
water or any combination thereof and need not be physically attached
to land except by easements for access and, if necessary, support.
The description of such space may refer to (i) boundaries described
in the recorded final map, parcel map, condominium plan or other document;
(ii) physical boundaries, either in existence, or to be constructed,
such as walls, floors and ceilings of a structure or portion thereof;
(iii) an entire structure containing one or more separate interests
in space; or (iv) any combination thereof. The portion of the parcel
of real property held in undivided interest may be all of the real
property of an existing parcel or lot (except for the separate interests
in space) or may include a particular three-dimensional portion thereof,
the boundaries of which are described on a recorded final map, parcel
map, condominium plan or other document. The area within the boundaries
may be filled with air, earth, or water, or any combination thereof,
and need not be physically attached to land except by easements for
access and, if necessary, support. A condominium may include in addition
a separate interest in other portions of such real property.
Such estate may, with respect to the duration of its enjoyment,
be either (1) an estate of inheritance or perpetual estate, (2) an
estate for life, (3) an estate for years, such as a leasehold or a
sublease hold or (4) any combination of the foregoing.
(Ord. 886 § 1, 1982; Ord. 993 § 1, 1985)
“Condominium conversion” or “conversion”
means a proposed change in the type of ownership of a parcel of land,
together with the existing attached structures, to a condominium project,
stock cooperative project, community apartment project or association,
or any community housing project as defined herein, regardless of
the present or prior use of such land and structures and/or whether
substantial improvements have been made to such structures.
(Ord. 886 § 1, 1982)
“Condominium units” are the elements of a condominium
which are not owned in common with the owners of other condominium
units in the project.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(d), 1981)
“Covenants, conditions and restrictions (CC&Rs)”
means the declaration of powers, obligations, responsibilities, duties,
rights and restrictions which are binding upon all owners of the condominium
or members of an association and which provide for the orderly governing
of the condominium or association.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(e), 1981)
“Dwelling unit” means a single unit providing complete,
independent living facilities for one or more persons including permanent
provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(f), 1981)
“Dedicated easement” means an easement dedicated
to and accepted by the city, to be used for streets, lanes, or other
public ways or places, sanitary sewers, drainage, utilities or other
public purposes.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(g), 1981)
“Elderly” means a person of 62 years of age or older.
(Ord. 886 § 1, 1982; Ord. 993 § 2, 1985)
“Expressway” means an arterial street which is characterized
by limited access, at-grade intersections and median strip dividers.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03 (h),
1981)
“Final map” refers to a map prepared in accordance
with the Subdivision Map Act and this title, which is designed to
be filed with the county recorder.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(i), 1981)
“Freeway” means an arterial street which is characterized
by limited access, grade-separated intersections and median strip
dividers.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03 (j),
1981)
“Handicapped” means a household in which the primary
wage earner suffers from an orthopedic disability impairing his or
her ability to obtain employment, or a single person with such physical
disability where the person requires special care facilities in the
home. “Handicapped” also includes a family in which the
head of household suffers from a developmental disability or mental
disorder which would render him or her eligible to participate in
programs of rehabilitation or social services conducted by or on behalf
of a public agency, or a single person with such developmental disability
or mental disorder.
(Ord. 886 § 1, 1982)
“Lane” means any public or private way which affords
a secondary means of access to abutting property.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(k), 1981)
“Limited equity housing cooperative” is as defined
in Section 33007.5 of the state of California
Health and Safety Code.
(Ord. 886 § 1, 1982)
“Lot” means a parcel of land established, or to
be established, by the standard subdivision procedure or minor subdivision
procedure, as provided in this title. For the purpose of this title,
the term “lot” and “parcel” shall be considered
synonymous.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(1), 1981)
“Lot depth” means the horizontal distance between
the front and rear lot lines, measured in the mean direction of the
side lot lines.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(m), 1981)
“Average lot depth” means the sum of the length
of the two side lines of the lot divided by two.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(n), 1981)
“Front lot line” means in the case of an interior
lot, a line separating the parcel from the street; and in the case
of a corner lot, a line separating the narrowest street frontage of
the lot from the street.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(o), 1981)
“Rear lot line” means a lot line which is opposite
and most distant from the front lot line; and in the case of an irregular,
triangular or gore-shaped lot, a line within the lot most nearly parallel
to and at the maximum distance from the front lot line, having a length
of at least ten feet.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(p), 1981)
“Side lot lines” means any lot boundary line not
a front lot line or a rear lot line.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(q), 1981)
“Average lot width” means the sum of the length
of the front and rear lot line divided by two. In the case of irregularly
shaped lots having four or more sides, “average lot width”
is the sum of the length of two lines, drawn perpendicular to one
side line at the widest and narrowest portions of the lot, divided
by two.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(r), 1981)
“Lower income” means a tenant or household that
earns eighty percent or below of the county of San Mateo median income
adjusted for family size.
(Ord. 886 § 1, 1982)
“Minor street” means that which is used primarily
for access to abutting properties, including cul-de-sacs.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(s), 1981)
“Moderate income” means a tenant or household that
earns more than eighty percent, but not more than one hundred twenty
percent, of the county of San Mateo median income adjusted for family
size.
(Ord. 886 § 1, 1982)
“Multiple family dwelling unit” means a dwelling
unit within a multiple family dwelling as defined herein.
(Ord. 886 § 1, 1982)
“Multiple family dwelling” means a structure having
two or more dwelling units, attached to each other along side(s),
floor, and/or ceiling, the ownership of which does not conform to
the definition of community apartment project, community housing project
or condominium as defined herein.
(Ord. 886 § 1, 1982)
“Other handicapped” means a family member who is neither a primary wage earner nor head of household, who has a physical, developmental or mental disorder as defined in Section
19.08.124.
(Ord. 886 § 1, 1982)
“Owner” means the individual, firm, partnership
or corporation having sufficient proprietary interest in the land
sought to be subdivided to commence and maintain proceedings to subdivide
said land under the law of the state and this title.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(t), 1981)
“Parcel map” refers to a map showing the division
of land as described in subsections (a) through (d) of Section 66426
of the
Government Code.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(u), 1981)
“Parkway” means the area between the back-of-curb
and the property line, but not including the sidewalk.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(v), 1981)
“Pedestrian way” means an easement exclusively for
pedestrian use.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(w), 1981)
“Person” is any person, firm, partnership, association,
corporation, company or organization of any kind.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(x), 1981)
“Planning commission” means the planning commission
of the city and the advisory agency referred to in the state Subdivision
Map Act.
(Ord. 361 § 3.03(y), 1981)
“Reserve strip” means a strip of land not less than
one foot in width deeded to the city for the purpose of regulating
access to any arterial street or to a partially dedicated or dead-end,
lane, street or highway.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(z), 1981)
“Single family dwelling” includes any detached dwelling
unit which is individually owned.
(Ord. 861 § 3.03(aa),
1981)
“Stock cooperative” means a corporation which is
formed or availed of primarily for the purpose of holding title to,
either in fee simple or for a term of years, improved real property.
All or substantially all of the shareholders of such corporation must
receive a right of exclusive occupancy in a portion of the real property,
title to which is held by the corporation, which right of occupancy
is transferable only concurrently with the transfer of the share or
shares of stock in the corporation held by the persons having such
right of occupancy.
(Ord. 886 § 1, 1982)
“Studio unit” means a dwelling unit having not more
than one habitable room in addition to the kitchen and bathroom.
(Ord. 886 § 1, 1982)
“Vesting Tentative Map” means a Tentative Subdivision
or Parcel Map meeting the requirements of
Government Code Section
66452 conferring the rights set forth in
Government Code Section 66498.1
and following.
(Ord. 993 § 3, 1985)