§ 16.08

For the purpose of this title, the following words and phrases are defined as set out in this chapter.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

"Advisory agency" means the city planning commission.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

"Alley" means a public way, other than a major or secondary highway or a local street, providing a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting property.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.040 - Building site.

"Building site" means any parcel of land which conforms to the definition of a lot as defined in this chapter.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.050 - Commission.

"Commission" means the city planning commission.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

"Design" means street alignment, grades and widths, alignment and widths of easements and the rights-ofway for drainage and sanitary sewers, and minimum lot area and width. Design also includes the alignment, grade and width of easements and rights-of-way for utilities as well as the grading and general layout of the lots and streets within the area.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.070 - Division of land map.

"Division of land map" means a map prepared pursuant to this title and certified by the advisory agency as having been approved pursuant to this title and filed in the office of the city clerk.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.080 - Engineer.

"Engineer" means the registered civil engineer employed by the subdivider to prepare the subdivision map or record of survey map and improvement plans.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.090 - Fire protection.

"Fire protection" means such fire hydrants and water lines as are required by the chief of the fire department.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.100 - Flood hazard.

"Flood hazard" means a hazard to land or improvements due to overflow water having sufficient velocity to transport or deposit debris, to scour the surface soil, to dislodge or damage buildings, or to erode the banks of watercourses.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.110 - Freeway.

"Freeway" means a highway with respect to which the owners of abutting lands have no right or easement of access to or from their abutting lands, or with respect to which such owners have only limited or restricted right or easement of access, and which is declared to be such in compliance with the Streets and Highways Code of the state of California.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.120 - Frontage.

"Frontage" means a service road as defined in this chapter.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

"Major highway" means any street, existing or proposed, designated on the master plan adopted after public hearing by the advisory agency as a major highway.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.140 - Highway, secondary.

"Secondary highway" means any street, existing or proposed, designated on the master plan adopted after public hearing by the advisory agency as a secondary highway.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.150 - Improvement.

"Improvement" means such 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 map thereof. Such street work and utilities include, but are not limited to, curbs, paving, sidewalks, monuments, street name signs, guardrails, barricades, safety devices, fire hydrants, grading, retaining walls, storm drains and floodcontrol channels and facilities, erosion-control structures, sanitary sewer, water lines, street lights, street trees, traffic regulatory and warning devices, (other than traffic signals and relocation of existing traffic signal systems directly affected by other subdivision improvements), and other facilities as are required by the city in conformance with other provisions of this code, or as are determined necessary by the advisory agency for the appropriate development of the proposed subdivision.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

"Inundation" means ponded water or water in motion of sufficient depth to damage property due to the mere presence of the water or to deposition of silt.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.170 - Lot.

"Lot" means:

A.

A parcel of real property shown as a delineated parcel of land with a number or other designation of a final map recorded in the office of the county recorder, Imperial County; or

B.

A parcel of land the dimensions of boundaries of which are defined by a record of survey map recorded in the office of the county recorder in accordance with the law regulating the subdivision of land; or

C.

A parcel of real property not delineated as in subsections A and B of this section containing not less than the prescribed minimum area required in the zone in which it is located, and which abuts at least one street and was held under one ownership at the time of the adoption of the ordinance codified in this title.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.180 - Map, final.

"Final map" means a map prepared in accordance with the provisions of this title and with any applicable provisions of the Subdivision Map Act and designed to be recorded in the office of the county recorder.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.190 - Map, revised tentative.

"Revised tentative map" means a map involving a revised arrangement of the streets, alleys, easements or lots within property for which a tentative map has been previously submitted, or a modification of the boundary of the property.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.200 - Map, tentative.

"Tentative map" is defined in the Subdivision Map Act.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.210 - Master plan.

"Master plan" means a master or general plan, which may include any of the elements listed and defined in the planning law of the Government Code of the state of California.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

"Public way" means any street, channel, viaduct, subway, tunnel, bridge, easement, right-of-way or other way in which a public agency has a right.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

"Record of survey" means a map prepared and filed pursuant to Subdivision (c) of Section 11535 of the Business and Professions Code (Subdivision Map Act) and conforming to Chapter 15 of Division 3 of said code.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.240 - Road, service.

"Service road" means that part of a major or secondary highway or freeway containing a roadway which affords access to abutting property and is adjacent and approximately parallel to and separated from the principal roadway.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.250 - Roadway.

"Roadway" means that portion of a right-of-way for a street or alley intended to accommodate the movement of vehicles.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.260 - Street, collector.

"Collector street" means a street, including the principal access streets of a subdivision, which carries traffic from local streets either directly or via other existing or proposed collector streets to a major or secondary highway.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.270 - Street, future.

"Future street" means any real property which the owner thereof has offered for dedication for street purposes and which offer has been rejected by the city council subject to the right of the council to rescind its action and accept by resolution at any later date, and without further action by the owner, all or part of said property as a public street.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.280 - Street, local.

"Local street" means any street other than a collector street, major or secondary highway, or freeway providing access to abutting property and serving local as distinguished from through traffic.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.290 - Street, private.

"Private street" means a parcel of land, not dedicated as a public street, over which a private easement for road purposes has been granted to the owners of property contiguous or adjacent thereto, which intersects or connects with a public street or another private street, and the instrument creating the same has been duly recorded or filed in the office of the recorder of Imperial County, and which has been determined by the advisory agency to be adequate for access and for the purposes defined in this title.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

"Subdivider" means a person, firm, corporation, partnership or association who causes land to be divided into a subdivision for himself or others.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

"Subdivision" is defined in the Subdivision Map Act.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.320 - Subdivision Map Act.

"Subdivision Map Act" means the Subdivision Map Act of the state of California pursuant to State of California Government Code Section 66410 et seq.

(Ord. 734 § 2, 1978: Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.330 - Surveyor.

"Surveyor" means a licensed land surveyor authorized to practice in California.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.340 - Vehicular access right.

"Vehicular access right" means the right or easement for access of owners or occupants of abutting lands to a public way other than as pedestrians.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.350 - Water supply.

"Water supply" means such water system supply and distribution facilities necessary to provide a reliable and adequate water supply for private use and public fire protection purposes.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

16.08.360 - Zoning ordinance.

"Zoning ordinance" means the zoning ordinance of the city.

(Ord. 575 § 2 (part), 1964: prior code § 8405 (part))

Chapter 16.12 - ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT