25.123 Definitions.

For the purpose of this ordinance, certain words and terms used herein are defined as follows:

(a) Alley -"Alley” refers to a passage or way open to public travel affording a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting lots and not intended for general traffic circulation.

(b) Arterial street - “Arterial street” refers to any street which serves as the principal network for accommodating traffic flow within the city. Arterial streets collect the flow of traffic from collector streets and minor streets serving various sectors of the city. Arterial streets are only those streets shown on the general plan.

(c) Block - “Block” shall mean an area of land within a subdivision, which area is entirely bounded by streets, highways, waterways, open space lands, or the exterior boundary of the subdivision.

(d) City council - “City council” means the city council of the City of Fairfield.

(e) City engineer - “City engineer” is the city engineer of the City of Fairfield.

(f) Collector street - “Collector street” is any street which serves as a link between arterial streets and local streets and has a right-of-way width of at least 60 feet.

(g) Cul-de-sac - “Cul-de-sac” refers to a local street open at one end, which has a vehicular turn around at the opposite end.

(h) Design - “Design” means all or any of the following: (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-of-way; (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; and (9) such other specific requirements in the plan and configuration of the entire subdivision as may be necessary or convenient to insure conformity to or implementation of the general plan.

(i) Frontage road - “Frontage road” is a local street auxiliary to, and located adjacent to the side of an arterial street or highway for service to abutting property and for control of access.

(j) General plan - “General plan” means the general plan of the City of Fairfield or the Cordelia area general plan.

(k) Improvement - “Improvement” refers to 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 a final map thereof. “Improvement” also refers to such other specific improvements or types of

improvements, the installation of which, either by the subdivider by punllc agencies, by private utilities, by any other entity approved by the local agency or by a combination thereof, is necessary or convenient to insure conformity to or implementation of the general plan.

(i) Intervening property - An “intervening property” is property located between the existing city utilities and public service facilities, and the property which is the subject of the subdivision request.

(m) Local street - “Local street” is any street which provides for access to abutting property and for localized traffic movements within residential areas and has a right-of-way width of at least 50 feet.

(n) Lot - “Lot” shall mean a parcel or portion of land separated from other parcels of land or portions by description as on a subdivision or record of survey map or by metes and bounds for the purpose of sale, lease or separate use.

(o) Map, final - A “map, final” refers to a map prepared in accordance with this ordinance and the subdivision map act, which is designed to be placed on record with the Solano county recorder.

(p) Map, tentative - A “map, tentative” shall mean any map for the purpose of showing the design of a proposed subdivision including existing conditions in and around it prepared as required by this ordinance and the provisions of the subdivision map act.

(q) Manager - “Manager” shall mean the city manager of the City of Fairfield.

(r) Off-site improvement - An “off-site improvement” is any public improvement installed in, over, under, or upon the public streets or rights-of-way outside of a development site and an on-site improvement.

(s) On-site improvement - An “on-site improvement” is any public improvement installed in, over, under, or upon the public streets or rights-of-way within or on the perimeter of a subdivision.

(t) Owner - “Owner” refers to any person or persons having proprietary interest in the land sought to be subdivided to commence and maintain proceedings to subdivide the same under this article.

(u) Oversize facility - “Oversize facility” is any public facility with added capacity designed to serve other property outside the boundaries of the subdivision.

(v) Planning commission - “Planning commission” shall mean the planning commission of the City of Fairfield and is the same as the advisory agency referred to in the Subdivision Map Act for the purposes of reviewing tentative maps.

(w) Residual parcel - a “residual parcel” is any parcel of land within or abutting a subdivision and was originally part of the subdivided parcel.

(x) Street, private - “Private street” shall be any way intended for vehicular traffic which is assigned a name for address purposes, but which is not owned or maintained by the city.

(y) Street, public - A “public street” shall be any street affording the principal means of access to abutting property and dedicated to, or maintained by the city, county, state or federal government.

(z) Secretary of the planning commission - “Secretary of the planning commission” means the director of planning and development for the City of Fairfield.

(aa) Specific plan - “Specific plan” means the Cordelia area specific plan of the City of Fairfield.

(bb) Standard subdivision improvements - “Standard subdivision improvements” shall mean those “standard details” and “standard specifications” as adopted by the city council of the City of Fairfield, and which shall govern the improvement of the public streets, highways, rights-of-way, and other public facilities to be constructed pursuant to this ordinance.

(cc) Subdivider - “Subdivider” means a person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association who proposes to divide, divides, or causes to be divided real property into a subdivision for himself or for others.

(dd) Subdivision - “Subdivision” means the division of any improved or unimproved land, shown on the latest equalized county assessment roll as a unit or as contiguous units, for the purpose of sale, lease or financing, whether immediate or future. Property shall be considered as contiguous units, even if it is separated by roads, streets, utility easements or railroad rights-ofway. “Subdivision” includes a condominium project, as defined in section 1350 of the civil code or a community apartment project, as defined in section 11004 of the business and professions code. Any conveyance of land to a governmental agency, public entity or public utility shall not be considered a division of land for purposes of computing the number of parcels.

For the purpose of this ordinance, the term “subdivision” means both minor and major subdivision, defined as follows:

(1) Minor subdivision: Any subdivision which meets the requirements of section 66426, subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d) of the subdivision map act.

(2) Major subdivision: Any subdivision of land into five or more lots which is not a minor subdivision.

(ee) Zoning ordinance - “Zoning ordinance” shall mean the zoning ordinance of the City of Fairfield and all applicable amendments thereto.

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The Fairfield Municipal Code is current through Ordinance 2026-02, passed February 17, 2026.

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Division 3. Minor Subdivision - Parcel Maps