The following terms, as used in this title, shall have the respective meanings hereinafter set forth:
CITY: Blanding City, Utah.
CITY COUNCIL: The city council of Blanding City, Utah.
CITY ENGINEER: City engineer, public works director, community development director.
COUNTY: San Juan County, Utah.
GENERAL PLAN: A broad statement of community goals relating to land and land development and related human and social impacts as identified by community representatives. The general plan may include information represented by maps, documents, pictures, graphics, and any other material, media or information, whether electronic or hard copy, which has been approved and/or adopted by ordinance or resolution by the legislative body having jurisdiction.
MINOR SUBDIVISION: A subdivision that when completed does not create more than a total of three (3) lots, and none of the lots are larger than one acre total size.
PERSON: Any individual, corporation, partnership, firm or association of individuals, however styled or designated.
PLANNING COMMISSION: The Blanding City planning commission.
PLANNING DEPARTMENT: City planner, planning staff, community development director.
SUBDIVISION: A. Any land that is divided, resubdivided or proposed to be divided into two (2) or more lots, parcels, sites, units, plots or other division of land, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, for offer, sale, lease or development, either on the installment plan or upon any and all other plans, terms and conditions.
B. "Subdivision" includes:
1. The division or development of land, whether by deed, metes and bounds description, devise and testacy, map, plat or other recorded instrument; and
2. Except as provided in subsection C of this definition, divisions of land for residential and nonresidential uses, including land used or to be used for commercial, agricultural and industrial purposes.
C. "Subdivision" does not include:
1. A bona fide division or partition of agricultural land for the purpose of joining one of the resulting separate parcels to a contiguous parcel of unsubdivided agricultural land, if neither the resulting combined parcel nor the parcel remaining from the division or partition violates an applicable land use ordinance;
2. A recorded agreement between owners of adjoining unsubdivided properties adjusting their mutual boundary if:
a. No new lot is created; and
b. The adjustment does not violate applicable land use ordinances; or
3. A recorded document, executed by the owner of record:
a. Revising the legal description of more than one contiguous unsubdivided parcel of property into one legal description encompassing all such parcels of property; or
b. Joining a subdivided parcel of property to another parcel of property that has not been subdivided, if the joinder does not violate applicable land use ordinances.
D. The joining of a subdivided parcel of property to another parcel of property that has not been subdivided does not constitute a "subdivision" as to the unsubdivided parcel of property, or subject the unsubdivided parcel to the city subdivision ordinance. (Ord. 2008-5, 5-13-2008)