Article 2 — DEFINITIONS

For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from the context, certain words and phrases used in this chapter are defined in this article. (Ord. 341)

"Authorized agent" shall mean the individual, firm, partnership or corporation designated by the individual, firm, partnership or corporation having sufficient proprietary interest. Designation is to be by way of signed statement by owner.

"Commission" shall mean the Planning Commission of the City and the Advisory Agency referred to in the Subdivision Map Act of the State.

"Design" shall mean street alignment, grades, and widths; alignment and widths of easements and rights-of-way for drainage and utilities; and lot area, width, depth, shape, and pattern as required by the provisions of this chapter.

"Easement" shall mean an easement dedicated to and accepted by the City which easement shall be continuing and irrevocable unless formally abandoned by the City.

"Improvement" shall mean such street work, drainage needs, utilities, or other improvements to be installed, or agreed to be installed, by the subdivider on land to be used for public streets, highways, ways, and easements as are necessary for the general use of the lot owners in the subdivision and the surrounding area as a condition precedent to the approval and acceptance of the final map thereof.

"Lot" shall mean a parcel of land established, or to be established, by the standard subdivision procedure, or by record of survey, or by minor subdivision procedure as set forth in this chapter.

"Lot depth" shall mean the horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines, measured in the mean direction of the side lot lines.

"Lot depth, average" shall mean the sum of the length of the two side lines of the lot divided by two.

"Lot line, front," in the case of an interior lot, shall mean 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 tract deed restrictions specify another line as the front lot line.

"Lot line, rear" shall mean 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 parallel to and at the maximum distance from the front lot line, having a length of at least ten (10′) feet.

"Lot line, side" shall mean any lot boundary line not a front lot line or a rear lot line.

"Lot width, average" shall mean 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 mean the sum of the length of two lines, drawn perpendicular to one side line at the widest and narrowest portions of the lot, divided by two.

"Map, final" shall mean a map prepared in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, which map is designed to be placed on record with the County Recorder.

"Map, tentative" shall mean any map made for the purpose of showing the design of a proposed subdivision or record of survey and showing the existing conditions in and around the proposed subdivision or record of survey, prepared as required by the provisions of this chapter.

"Minor subdivision" shall mean any division of land into four or less lots, each under five acres, in any five year period.

"Owner" shall mean the individual, firm, partnership, or corporation having sufficient proprietary interest in the land sought to be subdivided to commence and maintain proceedings to subdivide

such land pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.

"Record of survey" shall mean any subdivision prepared, filed, and approved in accordance with the laws of the State and the provisions of this chapter.

"Street, city" shall mean any street, avenue, or other public way accepted by the Council.

"Street, major" shall mean any street which carries traffic between different areas of the City and traffic entering from collector streets.

"Street, minor" shall mean a street which is used primarily for access to abutting properties.

"Street, secondary" shall mean a street which collects traffic from a subdivision or area to a major street and which is sometimes referred to as a collector street.

"Subdivider" shall mean a person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association which causes land to be subdivided into any amount of parcels.

"Subdivision" shall mean any real property, improved or unimproved, or portion thereof, shown on the 1961-1962 assessment roll of the City as a unit or as contiguous units, which property is divided for the purpose of lease for 10 years or more or for sale, including condominium developments, whether immediate or future, by any person, or his or her assigns, within any period. The following, however, shall not be subdivisions within the meaning of this definition:

• (a) The leasing of stores, offices, apartments, or similar spaces within buildings or spaces within a trailer park;

• (b) Mineral, oil, or gas leases; and

• (c) Cemeteries.

"Subdivision, standard" shall mean any subdivision map prepared, filed, and approved in accordance with the laws of the State and the provisions of Articles 8 and 9 of this chapter.

"Thoroughfare" shall mean a street of general City-County importance which is a limited access street carrying major traffic through several areas.

"Vesting tentative map" shall mean a "tentative map" for a subdivision, as defined in this article, which shall have printed conspicuously on its face the words "Vesting Tentative Map" at the time it is filed in accordance with Section 9-2.1502 of Article 15 of this chapter and is thereafter processed in accordance with the provisions thereof.

(Ord. 341, as amended by § 2, Ord. 1102, eff. February 4, 2012)