Yuba City Municipal Code Art. 13 Definitions

Except as otherwise provided in this article, all terms used in this chapter which are defined in the State Subdivision Map Act, and those terms set forth in Section 1-3.13 of Chapter 3 of Title 1 of this Code are used in this chapter as so defined, unless from the context hereof it clearly appears that a different meaning is intended.

(§ 2, Ord. 1095, eff. March 22, 1990)

"Advisory agency" shall mean the City Planning Commission who has the authority under this chapter to approve, conditionally approve or disapprove maps of proposed divisions of real property.

(§ 2, Ord. 1095, eff. March 22, 1990)

"Certificate of compliance" shall mean a certificate prepared by the City and recorded by the property owner or his or her agent which determines that the subdivision of real property complies or conditionally complies with the provisions of the State Subdivision Map Act and City ordinances enacted pursuant thereto. A recorded final map or parcel map shall constitute a certificate of compliance with respect to the parcels of real property described therein.

(§ 2, Ord. 1095, eff. March 22, 1990)

"Design" shall mean:

(a) Street alignments, grades and widths;

(b) Drainage and sanitary facilities and utilities, including alignments and grades thereof;

(c) Location and size of all required easements and right-of-way;

(d) Fire lanes;

(e) Lot size and configuration;

(f) Traffic access;

(g) Grading;

(h) Land to be dedicated for park or recreational purposes; and

(i) Such other specific requirements in the plan and configuration of the entire subdivision as may be necessary or convenient to ensure conformity to or implementation of the General Plan or an adopted specific plan of the City.

(§ 2, Ord. 1095, eff. March 22, 1990)

"Development" shall mean the uses to which the land, which is the subject of the map, shall be put, the buildings to be constructed on it, and all other alterations of the land.

(§ 2, Ord. 1095, eff. March 22, 1990)

"Final map" shall mean a map prepared by or under the direction of a qualified registered civil engineer or licensed land surveyor in accordance with the provisions of the State Subdivision Map Act and this chapter which delineates the division of land into five or more residential lots and show the design, improvements and dedications of the proposed subdivision. This map is designed to be placed on record in the office of the County Recorder.

(§ 2, Ord. 1095, eff. March 22, 1990)

(a) "Improvement" shall refer to any street work and utilities to be installed or agreed to be installed, by the subdivider, either on-site or off-site, to be used for public or private street, 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 the final map thereof;

(b) "Improvements" also refers to any other specific improvements or types of improvements, the installation of which, either by the subdivider, by public agencies, by private utilities, by any other entity approved by the local agency or by a combination thereof, is necessary to ensure consistency with, or implementation of, the General Plan or any applicable specific plan.

(§ 2, Ord. 1095, eff. March 22, 1990)

"Lot" shall mean a parcel or portion of land established for purposes of sale, lease, finance, division of interest or separate use, separated from other lands by description on a final map or parcel map.

(§ 2, Ord. 1095, eff. March 22, 1990)

"Lot line adjustment" shall mean a minor shift or rotation of an existing lot line or other adjustments where a greater number of parcels than originally existed is not created, as approved by the Planning Director and Public Works Director.

(§ 2, Ord. 1095, eff. March 22, 1990)

"Parcel map" shall mean a map prepared by or under the direction of a qualified registered civil engineer or licensed land surveyor in accordance with the State Subdivision Map Act and this chapter which delineates the division of land into four or less residential lots or any number of commercial or industrial lots and shows the design, improvements and dedications of the proposed subdivisions. This map is designed to be placed on record in the office of the County Recorder.

(§ 2, Ord. 1095, eff. March 22, 1990)

"Planning Director" shall mean the City Planning Director or authorized representative.

(§ 2, Ord. 1095, eff. March 22, 1990)

"Reversion to acreage" shall mean the changing of subdivided property, as shown on the latest equalized county assessment roll, to acreage.

(§ 2, Ord. 1095, eff. March 22, 1990)

"Subdivider" shall mean 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 herself or for others.

(§ 2, Ord. I 095, eff. March 22, 1990)

"Subdivision" shall mean the division, by any subdivider, of any unit or units of improved or unimproved land, or any portion thereof, 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 except for leases of agricultural land for agricultural purposes. Property shall be considered as contiguous units, even if it is separated by roads, street, utility easement or railroad rights-of-way. "Subdivision" shall include a condominium project, as defined in the Civil Code, a community apartment project, as defined in the Business and Professions Code, or the conversion of five or more existing dwelling units to a stock cooperative, as defined in the Business and Professions Code. As used in this section, "agricultural purposes" shall mean the cultivation of food or fiber or the grazing or pasturing of livestock.

(§ 2, Ord. 1095, eff. March 22, 1990)

"Development Review Committee" shall mean the following officials or their duly authorized representatives: the Planning Director and the Director of Public Works and other department heads as may be affected by the proposed subdivision.

(§ 2, Ord. 1095, eff. March 22, 1990)

"Tentative map" shall mean a map prepared by or under the direction of a registered civil engineer or licensed land surveyor in accordance with the provisions of the State Subdivision Map Act and this chapter to show the design of a proposed subdivision and the existing conditions in and around the land proposed to be divided. Such map need not be based upon an accurate or detailed field survey; however, it shall be graphically accurate to reasonable tolerances.

(§ 2, Ord. 1095, eff. March 22, 1990)

"Urban lot split" shall mean the division of a single parcel into two separate parcels in compliance with the provisions of Article 16 of Chapter 2 of Title 8 (Urban Lot Splits).

(Ord. No. 006-22, § 3, 3-15-2022)

"Vesting tentative map" refers to a map which meets the requirements of a tentative map and when approved or conditionally approved, gives the subdivider a vested right to develop the property in compliance with the ordinances, policies and standards in effect at the time the subdivider filed a complete application with the City.

(§ 2, Ord. 1095, eff. March 22, 1990; Ord. No. 006-22, § 3, 3-15-2022)

Editor's note— With the inclusion of Ord. No. 006-22, which added new provisions desinated as § 8-2.1317, said existing section has been renumbered as 8-2.1318 as herein set out above.