“Alley” means a public or private thoroughfare which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.
(Ord. 355 § 2.10, 1973)
“City street” means any thoroughfare accepted by the city council which affords principal means of access to abutting property, including avenue, place, way, drive, lane, boulevard, highway and road.
(Ord. 355 § 2.13, 1973)
“Design” refers to street alignment, grades and widths, alignments and widths of easements and rights-of-way for utilities, drainage and sanitary sewers; and minimum lot area and width.
(Ord. 355 § 2.15, 1973)
“Easement” means an easement dedicated to the city, for public utility or other public uses which shall be continuing and irrevocable unless formally abandoned by the city.
(Ord. 355 § 2.16, 1973)
“Final map” refers to a map prepared in accordance with this title, which is designed to be placed on record with the Monterey County recorder.
(Ord. 355 § 2.17, 1973)
“Improvement” refers to such street design, drainage needs and utilities and other facilities for public use or benefit 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, including, but not limited to, recreation sites, lot dimensions and layout as are necessary for the general use of the lot owners in the subdivision and the surrounding area, a condition precedent to approval and acceptance of the final map.
(Ord. 355 § 2.18, 1973)
“Lot” means a parcel of land established, or to be established by the standard subdivision procedure, or by minor subdivision procedure, as provided herein.
(Ord. 355 § 2.19, 1973)
“Lot depth” means the horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines, measured in the mean direction of the side lot lines.
(Ord. 355 § 2.22, 1973)
“Front lot line” means in the case of an interior lot, a line separating the lot from the street; and in the case of a corner lot, a line separating the narrowest street frontage of the lot from the street, except in those cases where the latest recorded tract deed restrictions, approved as part of subdivision approval, specify another line as the front lot line.
(Ord. 355 § 2.23, 1973)
“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. 355 § 2.24, 1973)
“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” shall be the sum of length of two lines, drawn perpendicular to one side line at the widest and narrowest portions of the lot, divided by two.
(Ord. 355 § 2.20, 1973)
“Minor subdivision” means any division of land into four or less lots or parcels by use of a parcel map or other divisions requiring the use of a parcel map as indicated in Section 16.08.180 of this chapter.
(Ord. 382 § 2, 1976)
“Owner” is the individual, firm, partnership or corporation having sufficient proprietary interest in the land sought to be subdivided to commence and maintain proceedings to subdivide the same under this title.
(Ord. 355 § 2.26, 1973)
“Parcel map” refers to a map showing the division of land as described in the following cases:
(1) 
Any parcel or parcels of land which is divided into four or less parcels;
(2) 
The whole parcel before division contains less than five acres, each parcel created by the division abuts upon a public street and no dedications or improvements are required;
(3) 
Any parcel or parcels of land divided into lots or parcels, each of a gross area of twenty acres or more, and each of which has an approved access to a maintained public street;
(4) 
Any parcel or parcels of land divided into lots or parcels, each of which is forty acres or more;
(5) 
Any parcel or parcels of land having approved access to a public street which comprises part of a tract of land zoned for industrial development and which has the approval of the governing body as to street alignments and widths; provided, however, that the planning commission may require the filing of a standard subdivision on such industrially zoned land where it deems it in the public interest and approved and filed in accordance with law under the standard subdivision procedure.
(Ord. 355 § 2.27, 1973)
“Subdivider” means a person, firm, corporation, partnership or association who causes land to be subdivided into a subdivision for himself or others.
(Ord. 355 § 2.30, 1973)
“Subdivision” means any real property, improved or unimproved, or portion thereof, shown on the latest adopted county tax roll as a unit or as contiguous units, which is divided for the purpose of sale, lease, transfer or financing, including condominiums or similar projects whether immediate or future, by any person, firm or corporation or their assigns within any period. Property shall be considered as contiguous units, even if it is separated by roads, streets, utility easements, or railroad rights-of-way. The following, however, are not subdivisions within the meaning of this title:
(1) 
Leasing of industrial buildings, stores, offices, apartments or similar space within buildings or spaces within a trailer park;
(2) 
Mineral, oil or gas leases, and cemeteries;
(3) 
Leases of less than ten years which result in division of land into no more than two parcels;
(4) 
Any division of property for the sole purpose of adjusting property lines between contiguous parcels when no new building site as defined by the zoning ordinance of the city (Title 17 of this code) is thereby created and where no building site as defined in the zoning ordinance is thereby rendered substandard; provided, that no such division shall be made until it has been determined by the planning director that the proposed division meets the requirements of this subsection (4) of this section.
(Ord. 382 § 3, 1976)
“Tentative map” means any map made for the purpose of showing the design of a proposed subdivision or parcel map showing the existing conditions in and around it, prepared as required in this title and the Subdivision Map Act.
(Ord. 355 § 2.31, 1973)
“Urban lot split” means the division of a single parcel into two separate parcels in compliance with the provisions of Chapter 16.40 (Urban Lot Splits).
(Ord. 808 § 4, 2022)