Ione Municipal Code Ch. 16.60 Glossary of Terms

The purpose of this chapter is to provide general definitions of the terms and phrases used in the code that are technical or specialized in an effort to ensure consistency in the interpretation of the land division code. Definitions are organized alphabetically.

(Ord. No. 431, § 2, 2-2-2010)

"Alley" means a public or private way providing a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting property.

"Building site" means the same as "lot," as defined in Title 17 (zoning).

"CEQA" refers to the California Environmental Quality Act, Public Resources Code Section 21000, et seq., and the city's adopted local CEQA Guidelines.

"City engineer" means the Engineer of the City of Ione, or his or her designee.

"City planner" means the Planner of the City of Ione, or his or her designee.

"County" means the County of Amador.

"Drip line" means a line which may be drawn on the ground around a tree directly under its outermost branch tips and which identifies that location where rainwater tends to drip from the tree.

"Dwelling unit" means a group of rooms or a single room with kitchen facilities occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by a family or other group of persons living together, or by a person living alone, irrespective of the age of the occupant or occupants. See Title 17.

"Final map" is a map showing a subdivision of five or more parcels for which a tentative and final map are required by the Subdivision Map Act and this title, prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act and this title, and designed to be filed for recordation in the office of the county recorder.

"Fire protection" means such fire hydrants and other protective measures as may be reasonably required by the fire marshal of the fire department for protection of property to be located within a subdivision.

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

"Frontage road" means a street lying adjacent and approximately parallel to and separated from a freeway or other public street and which affords access to abutting property.

"General plan" means the General Plan of the City of Ione.

"Geological hazard" means a hazard inherent in the crust of the earth, or artificially created, which is dangerous or potentially dangerous to life, property or improvements due to the movement, failure or shifting of earth.

"Highway" means a roadway defined as a "freeway" in Section 23.5 of the Streets and Highways Code of the state of California.

"Inundation" means ponded water or water in motion of sufficient depth to damage property due to the presence of the water or to deposits of alluvium.

"Lot" means a parcel of land which is identified on a final map or parcel map recorded in the office of the county recorder with a separate and distinct number or letter. See "lot" as defined in Title 17.

Lot, Flag. "Flag lot" means a parcel of land shaped like a flag as defined in Title 17.

Lot, Through. "Through lot" means a lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets, as defined as a double frontage lot in Title 17.

"Lot line adjustment" means a division of land consisting of the relocation of an interior lot line between two or more adjacent parcels, where the land taken from one parcel is added to an adjacent parcel, and where a greater number of parcels than originally existed is not thereby created.

"Merger" is the joining of two or more contiguous parcels of land under one ownership into one parcel.

"Mobilehome lot" is any area designated, designed or usable for the occupancy of one mobilehome on a temporary, semi-permanent or permanent basis.

"Multi-family dwelling unit" means a building or portion thereof designed for occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other, but under one roof. See "dwelling, multi-family" defined in Title 17.

"Parcel map" means a map showing a subdivision of four or less parcels, as required by the Subdivision Map Act and this title, prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act and this title and designed to be filed for recordation in the office of the county recorder.

"Pedestrian way" is a right-of-way designed for use by pedestrians and other non-motorized means of travel and not intended for use by motor vehicles of any kind. A pedestrian way may be located within or without a street right-of-way, at grade, or grade separated from vehicular traffic.

"Planned development" is a subdivision consisting of one or more planned developments as said term is defined in Business and Professions Code Section 11003.

"Private road easement" means a parcel of land not dedicated as a public street, over which a private easement for road purposes is proposed to be or has been granted to the owners of property contiguous or adjacent thereto which intersects or connects with a public street, or a private street; in each instance the instrument creating such easement shall be or shall have been duly recorded or filed in the office of the county recorder.

"Public way" is any street, highway, alley, pedestrian way, equestrian or hiking trail, biking path, channel, viaduct, subway, tunnel, bridge, easement, right-of-way, or other way in which the public use has a right of use.

"Roadway" means that portion of a right-of-way for a street, highway or alley designed or used to accommodate the movement of motor vehicles.

"Single-family dwelling unit" is a detached building designed exclusively for occupancy by one family. See "dwelling, single family" as defined in Title 17.

"Specific plan" means a plan for a specific plan as described in Title 17.

Street, Arterial or Major. "Arterial street" means a street that carries the vehicular traffic of local and collector streets to and from freeways, the central business district and other arterial streets, with protected intersections at grade. While arterials generally provide direct access to abutting properties, their primary purpose is to move traffic quickly and efficiently between different parts of the community.

Street, Collector. "Collector street" means a street that collects and distributes vehicular traffic moving between arterial streets and local streets and that generally provides direct access to abutting properties.

Street, Cul-de-sac. "Cul-de-sac street" means a street which is designed to remain permanently closed at one end with the closed end terminated by a vehicular turnaround. For the purposes of these regulations, the length of a cul-de-sac street shall be measured from the center line of the intersecting street along the center line of the cul-de-sac to the center of the radius of the turnaround.

Street, Local or Minor. "Local street" means any street other than a collector street, arterial or freeway that provides direct access to abutting properties and serves local as distinguished from through traffic.

"Subdivider" means a person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association, as defined in Section 66423 of the Subdivision Map Act, who proposes to divide, divides, or causes to be divided real property into a subdivision for himself and/or for others.

"Subdivision" means the division, by any subdivider, of any unit or units of improved or unimproved land, or any portion thereof, as defined in Section 66424 of the Subdivision Map Act.

"Subdivision Map Act" refers to the Subdivision Map Act of the State of California, Government Code Section 66410 et seq., inclusive, as that Act currently provides or is subsequently amended.

"Subdivision modification" is a request by a subdivider for modifications to the requirements or standards imposed by these subdivision regulations filed prior to the approval of the tentative map.

"Tentative map" is a map made for the purpose of showing the design improvements of the proposed subdivision and the existing conditions in or around it. "Tentative map" includes a tentative map prepared in connection with the parcel map pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 16.30 (parcel maps) of this title.

"Two-family dwelling unit" means a detached building designed exclusively for occupancy by two families living independently of each other, but under one roof. See "dwelling, two-family" as defined in Title 17.

"Vehicular access rights" means the right of vehicular access of owners or occupants of abutting lands to a public way.

"Vesting tentative map" means a tentative map which shall have printed conspicuously on its face the words "vesting tentative map" at the time it is filed, in accordance with Chapter 16.32 of this title.

"Water supply" means such water supply and distribution facilities as are necessary to provide a reliable and adequate water supply for appropriate residential, commercial and industrial use and for public and private fire protection purposes.

"Zoning code" means the Zoning Code of the City of Ione, Title 17 of the Municipal Code, and revisions thereto.

(Ord. No. 431, § 2, 2-2-2010)