San Anselmo Municipal Code Art. 2 Definitions

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Editor's note— Ord. No. 2025-1193, § 2(Exh. A)(2), adopted October 28, 2025, repealed the former Art. 2, §§ 10-4.201—10-4.207, and enacted a new Art. 2 as set out herein. The former Art. 2 pertained to standards for ministerial housing units and derived from Ord. No. 1159, § 18, adopted Dec. 14, 2021; Ord. No. 1160, § 18, adopted Dec. 14, 2021; Ord. No. 1176, § 4, adopted April 25, 2023.

The following definitions apply to this chapter.

(a) "Acting in concert with the owner" means a person that has common ownership or control of the subject parcel with the owner of the adjacent parcel, a person acting on behalf of, acting for the predominant benefit of, acting on the instructions of, or actively cooperating with, the owner of the parcel being subdivided.

(b) "Adjacent parcel" means any parcel of land that is: 1) touching the parcel at any point; 2) separated from the parcel at any point only by a public right-of-way, private street or way, or public or private utility, service, or access easement; or 3) separated from another parcel only by other real property which is in common ownership or control of the applicant.

(c) "ADU" or "Accessory Dwelling Unit" shall have the same meaning as set forth in Municipal Code section 10-6.102.

(d) "Attached ADU" or "Attached Accessory Dwelling Unit" shall have the same meaning as set forth in Municipal Code section 10-6.102.

(e) "Common ownership or control" means property owned or controlled by the same person(s) or entity, or by separate entities, in which any shareholder, partner, member, or family member of an investor of the entity owns ten (10%) percent or more of the interest in the property.

(f) "Detached ADU" or "Detached Accessory Dwelling Unit" shall have the same meaning as set forth in Municipal Code Section 10-6.102.

(g) "Dwelling unit" includes an ADU (attached or detached), a JADU, and two-unit development, and/or a primary dwelling unit.

(h) "Low income household" has the meaning set forth in Health and Safety Code section 50079.5.

(i) "Moderate income household" has the meaning set forth in Health and Safety Code section 50093.

(j) "Primary dwelling unit" means the single-family residence on the property and is the larger of the two (2) if there is an existing ADU on the property.

(k) "Sufficient for separate conveyance" means that each attached or adjacent dwelling unit is constructed in a manner adequate to allow for the separate sale of each unit in a common interest development as defined in Civil Code section 1351, including residential a residential condominium, planned development, stock cooperative, or community apartment project, or into any other ownership type in which the dwelling units may be sold individually.

(l) "Two-unit development" means a development that proposes no more than two (2) new dwelling units, or proposes to add one (1) new dwelling unit to one (1) existing dwelling unit, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and Government Code sections 65852.21, as may be amended.

(m) "Urban lot split" means a subdivision of an ex parcel into no more than two (2) separate parcels pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and Government Code section 66411.7, as may be amended.

(n) "Very low income household" has the meaning set forth in Health and Safety Code section 50105.

(Ord. No. 2025-1193, § 2(Exh. A)(2), 10-28-2025)