Shasta Lake Municipal Code Ch. 16.04 General Provisions

It is the intention of the city council to implement and supplement the Map Act in this title.

(Ord. 97-98 § 15.04.010)

The definitions set forth in the Map Act are incorporated herein by reference and are supplemented as set forth herein. The following words and terms are used and defined as follows for purposes of this title, unless the context in which a word or term is used requires another usage or meaning:

"Clearing" means the clearing above the natural ground surface of vegetable growth such as trees, logs, upturned stumps, roots of down trees, brush, grass, weeds and other objectionable materials such as rubbish, in such a manner that any natural erosion, including sedimentation, will not be increased and damage to offsite property will not result.

"Contiguous" means touching; in actual close contact; near, though not in contact. Parcels of property shall be considered contiguous units if they share a common boundary line or point or are physically so situated with respect to each other that they can reasonably be developed as one subdivision project. Property shall be considered contiguous units even if it is separated by roads, streets, utility easements or railroad rights-of-way.

"Immediate family" means a natural person's brothers, sisters, children, parents, uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews or spouse, or the spouse' brothers, sisters, children or parents.

"Owner's statement" means a statement submitted with every tentative map for a proposed division of land, containing such information as this part and the city council may direct, and executed under penalty of perjury by the record title owners of the land affected, as provided in Code of Civil Procedure Section 2015.5.

Property Line Adjustment.

1. "Property line adjustment" means the resubdivision of two adjoining parcels by a minor relocation of the boundary line between them so that the land taken from one parcel is merged with the land of the parcel to which it is added.

2. "Property line adjustment" does not include any resubdivision that results in either a greater number of parcels or building sites than originally existed or significant reconfiguration of the original parcels.

"Resubdivision" means the simultaneous division of two or more adjoining parcels of real property that results in a reconfiguration of the parcels or an increase in the total number of parcels or building sites.

Subdivision.

1. "Subdivision" means and includes divisions of real property subject to the Map Act and divisions of any unit or units of improved or unimproved real property, or any portion thereof shown on the latest equalized assessment roll as a unit or as contiguous units, for the purpose of gift, partition, termination of any joint ownership interest in the real property, or pursuant to or in satisfaction of any judicial decree of judgment, whether immediate or future.

2. For the purpose of this title, real property owned or beneficially controlled by substantially the same persons, entities or interests shall be deemed to be in one ownership and part of the same subdivided real property or subdivision.

(Ord. 97-98 § 15.04.020)