For the purpose of this title, certain words and terms are defined in this title. When consistent with the context, words used in the present tense shall include the future; the singular term shall include the plural; and the plural the singular; the word "shall" is always mandatory and the word "may" denotes a use of discretion.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Access panhandle"
means a strip of land having a width narrower than that of the lot, tract or parcel to be served thereby and designed for the purpose of providing access to the lot, tract or parcel, being less in width than the minimum lot width allowed under the applicable zoning.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Agricultural land"
means land primarily devoted to the commercial production of horticultural, viticultural, floricultural, dairy, apiary, vegetable, or animal products, or of berries, grain, hay, straw, turf, seed, or Christmas trees not subject to the excise tax imposed by RCW 84.33.100 through 84.33.140, or livestock and that has long-term commercial significance for agricultural production.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Alley"
means a public or private right-of-way having a width no greater than 20 feet and no less than 10 feet, used primarily as a secondary means of access and/or for the use or placement of utilities to residences and/or business establishments.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Applicant"
means any individual or entity who applies for preliminary plat, short plat, boundary line adjustment, lot consolidation, large-lot subdivision or binding site plan, or any other approval under this title.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Arterial"
means a street or great continuity which serves or is intended to serve as a principal traffic way for fast or heavy traffic, and which, taken together, comprises the basic structure of the street system of the town and surrounding area.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Binding site plan"
means a drawing(s) made and approved in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 17.14 EMC which contains inscriptions and attachments setting forth such appropriate limitations and conditions for the use of the land as are established by the town, and which contains provisions requiring any development to be in conformance with the site plan.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Block"
means a group of contiguous lots, tracts or parcels within well defined and fixed boundaries.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
Bond" means a form of insurance or financial security provided to guarantee completion of required improvements or maintenance.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Buffer"
means an area of land or a structure used or created for the purpose of insulating or separating a structure or land use from other land uses or structures, in a manner intended to reduce or mitigate any adverse impacts of one on the other.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Buildable lot"
means a lot meeting all of the requirements of size, shape, frontage, sanitation, etc., contained in this title and other ordinances of the town for any specific type of development.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Building"
means a structure having a roof supported by columns or walls, for the shelter, support or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Building line"
means a line on a land division indicating the limit beyond which any portion of a building, structure, on-site sewage disposal system, etc., may not be placed. Placement of a building line may be voluntary or mandatory.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Comprehensive plan"
means a plan adopted by the town council as a guide to the physical growth and improvements of the town, including modifications or refinements which may be made from time to time. The plan may include the following elements: land use, transportation, transit, public services and facilities, utilities, housing, community development, and additional subjects relating to the physical development of the town.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Date in filing"
means the date that a complete and accurate application for preliminary plat, short plat, large-lot plat, binding site plan or final plat approval is accepted as being complete, including appropriate fees and is filed with the town.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Declaration of short subdivision"
means a document signed by all persons having any real interest in the land being subdivided, and acknowledged before a notary that they signed the same as their free act and deed, and containing, as a minimum, the following elements:
A. 
A legal description of the tract being divided;
B. 
An illustrative map;
C. 
Any restrictive map;
D. 
A title report or plat certification;
E. 
Any special conditions of short subdivision (e.g., approval frontage improvements requirements);
F. 
Any restrictive covenants;
G. 
Written findings by the director of public works, in conformance with RCW 58.17.060 and 58.17.110.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Dedication"
means the deliberate appropriation of land by an owner for any general and public uses, reserving to himself no other rights than such as are compatible with the full exercise and enjoyment of the public uses to which the property has been devoted. The intention to dedicate shall be evidenced by the owner by the presentment for filing of a final plat or short plat showing the dedication thereon; and the acceptance by the public shall be evidenced by the approval of such plat for filing by the appropriate governmental unit.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Development permit"
means any land use permit which must be approved by the town prior to the development of land. Development permits shall include preliminary plats, short plats, binding site plans, large-lot subdivisions and final plats.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Development regulations"
means any controls placed on development or land use activities by a county, city, or town, including, but not limited to, zoning ordinances, official controls, planned unit development ordinances, subdivision ordinances, and binding site plan ordinances.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Easement"
means a right granted by a property owner to specifically named parties or to the general public for the use of certain areas or strips of land for particular purposes. Where appropriate to the context, "easement" may also refer to the land covered buy the rights granted. This may include pedestrian paths, bicycle paths, utility easements, drainage, open space, etc.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Final plat"
means the final drawing of the subdivision and dedication prepared for filing or record with the county auditor and containing all elements and requirements set forth in Chapter 58.17 RCW and in this title adopted pursuant thereto.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Flag lot" or "panhandle lot"
means a platted lot that is connected to the road or street right-of-way or easement by a narrow strip of land forming the shape of a flag or pan. The narrow strip of land connecting the lot to the road or street right-of-way or easement is the "flag pole" or "access panhandle" part of the lot.
(Ord. 2000-05 § 1, 2000)
"Forest land"
means land primarily used for growing trees, including Christmas trees subject to the excise tax imposed under RCW 84.33.100 through 84.33.140, for commercial purposes, and that has long-term commercial significance for growing trees commercially.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Frontage street"
means a street which is parallel to and adjacent to a major arterial, providing access to the properties abutting and separating abutting property from high-speed vehicular traffic.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Grade"
means the change in elevation of an area, usually a roadway, expressed in terms of a percentage.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Improvements"
means and includes, but is not limited to, streets and roads complying with the town of Eatonville development and construction standards; public utility and pedestrian facilities; streetlights; landscape features; bridge structures; storm drainage facilities; sewer collection systems; water distribution system; power distribution system; telephone system; cable TV system; and traffic-control devices as are required to be installed as a part of subdivision, short subdivision, large-lot subdivision or binding site plan approval.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Land division"
means any process by which individual lots, parcels or tracts are created. Land divisions include, but are not limited to, short plats, long plats, binding site plans, large-lot subdivisions, etc.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Large-lot subdivision"
means the division of land into lots or tracts, each of which is one one-hundred-twenty-eighth of a section of land or larger, or five acres or larger, if the land is not capable of description as a fraction of a section of land. For purposes of computing the size of any lot under this section which borders on a street, the lot size shall be expanded to include that area which would be bounded by the centerline of the street and the side lot lines of the lot running perpendicular to such centerline.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Lot"
means a fractional part of subdivided or site-planned land having fixed boundaries, being of sufficient area and dimensions to meet minimum zoning requirements for width and area. The term shall include tracts or parcels.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Lot consolidation"
means a process used for the purpose of consolidating boundary lines between platted or unplatted lots, or both, which does not create any additional lots, tracts, parcels or sites, and combines them into one building site.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Model home"
means a structure or structures constructed to promote the sale, lease or rental of units within a project, and not necessarily intended nor approved for certified occupancy for their intended residential use.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Open space"
means a parcel of land, excluding sites, parking areas and access routes, designed and maintained as an area for leisure, recreation, other activities normally carried outdoors, and/or for the preservation of natural areas.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Owner"
means the owner of record as determined by the records of the auditor, provided that the owner under a real estate contract is the purchaser-vendee and the owner of mortgaged property is the mortgagor.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Person"
means every person, firm, partnership, association, social or fraternal organization, corporation, estate, trust, receiver, syndicate, branch of government, or any other group or combination acting as a unit.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Plat"
means a map or representation of a subdivision, showing thereon the division of a tract or parcel of land into lots, blocks, streets and alleys or other divisions or dedications.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Preliminary plat"
means a neat and approximate drawing of a proposed subdivision showing lots, tracts, streets and alleys and other elements of a subdivision consistent with the requirements of this title. The preliminary plat shall furnish a basis for the approval or disapproval of the general layout of a subdivision.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Primary arterial"
means an arterial street or highway having only limited access. Primary arterials may or may not be divided. Traffic moves at a high rate of speed with as little interference as possible.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Public facilities"
means and includes streets, roads, highways, sidewalks, street and road lighting systems, traffic signals, domestic water systems, storm and sanitary sewer systems, parks, recreational facilities, schools, transit stops, telephone and communication systems, and power distribution systems.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Roadway"
means that portion of a right-of-way that is improved and maintained for vehicular and/or pedestrian traffic.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Short plat/subdivision"
means the division or redivision of land into four or fewer lots, tracts, parcels, sites or divisions for the purpose of transfer of ownership, sale or lease and its map or representation containing all of the pertinent information as required by this title.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Street"
means a public or private right-of-way or easement which provides vehicle access to more than three lots or potential lots. "Street" and "road" are terms used interchangeably and mean the same.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Collector street"
means a street used to collect and distribute traffic from higher-type arterial streets to access streets, or directly to traffic destinations, to serve neighborhood traffic generators.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Street tree"
means a tree planted along the edge of a right-of-way or easement, or just inside the lot or parcel from the right-of-way on a landscape easement and which is of a variety approved by the public works director or mayor for such placement. The public works department may keep a list of pre-approved trees.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992; Ord. 2019-10 § 2 (Exh. A), 2019)
"Subdivision"
means the division or redivision of land into five or more lots, tracts, parcels, sites or divisions, which are less than five acres in area, whether immediate or future, for the purpose of sale, lease or transfer of ownership. This definition applies whether or not there is a dedication involved.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Urban governmental services"
means and includes those governmental services historically and typically delivered by cities or towns, and includes storm and sanitary sewer systems, domestic water systems, street cleaning services, fire and police protection services, public transit services, solid waste services and other public utilities associated with urban areas and normally not associated with non-urban areas.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Urban growth"
means and refers to growth that makes intensive use of land for the location of buildings, structures and impermeable surfaces, to such a degree as to be incompatible with the primary use of such land for the production of food, other agricultural products, or fiber, or the extraction of mineral resources. When allowed to spread over wide areas, urban growth typically requires urban governmental services. "Characterized by urban growth" means and refers to land having urban growth located on it, or to land located in relationship to an area with urban growth on it as to be appropriate for urban growth.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Utilities easements"
means rights-of-way which may be used by public utilities, including, but not limited to, electricity, water, natural gas, sewer, telephone and television cable, for the construction, operation, maintenance, alteration and repair of their respective facilities.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Variance"
means an authorization granting relief under the provisions of Chapter 17.50 EMC from the literal enforcement of this title, when special conditions exist or unusual hardship will result therefrom.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Vehicle"
means a device capable of being moved upon a public highway and in, upon, or by which any persons or property are or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, including mopeds, excepting devices moved by human or animal power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Watercourse"
means the course or route followed by waters draining from the land, formed by nature or man and consisting of a bed, banks, sides and associated wetlands and headwater. A watercourse shall receive surface and subsurface drainage waters and shall flow with some regularity, but not necessarily continuously, naturally and normally, in draining from higher to lower lands. The watercourse shall terminate at the point of discharge into a larger receiving body such as a lake. "Watercourse" shall include sloughs, streams, creeks and associated wetlands.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Wetland" or "wetlands,"
for the purposes of inventory, incentives and non-regulatory programs, means those lands transitional between terrestrial and aquatic systems where the water table is usually at or near the surface, or the land is covered by shallow water. For the purposes of this definition, "wetlands" must have one or more of the attributes which meet the requirements set forth in the town of Eatonville Critical Area Ordinance (Chapter 15.20 EMC).
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Yard"
means the shortest distance between any point of the property line and the nearest building obstruction of a permanent nature, including, without limitation, steps, chimney, deck, or bay window.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Front yard"
means the space extending across the full width of the building site, having at no point less than the minimum required distance between the front property line and the nearest building obstruction of a permanent nature.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Rear yard"
means the space extended across the full width of the building site, having at no point less than the required minimum distance between the rear property line and the nearest building obstruction of a permanent nature.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)
"Side yard"
means the space extending from the front yard to the rear yard, having at no point less than the minimum required distance between the side property line and the nearest building obstruction of a permanent nature.
(Ord. 92-9 § 3, 1992)