ADMINISTRATIVE LAND USE AUTHORITY: | The Clearfield City Planning Commission for preliminary subdivision plats and the Community Development Director or designee for final subdivision plats. |
ALLEY: | A public way which affords a secondary or primary means of vehicular access to an abutting property or structure. |
CITY: | Clearfield City, Utah. |
CITY COUNCIL: | The Clearfield City Council. |
CITY ENGINEER: | Any individual or firm retained or designated by Clearfield City as the City engineer for the purpose of performing engineering duties. |
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR: | An individual designated by Clearfield City as the director of the Community Development department to oversee the functions and duties of land use development and licensing within the City. |
CONCEPT PLAN: | A generalized plan indicating the boundaries of a tract or tracts identifying proposed land use and subdivision layout. |
CUL-DE-SAC: | A street closed at one end by an enlarged, circular vehicular turnaround area. |
CUT: | Is the distance from a survey elevation stake to a required lower adjacent elevation. Either excavated material, or the void resulting from the excavation of earth material. |
DEVELOPER: | A subdivider or any person or organization that develops, or intends to develop, property after it has been divided. |
DOUBLE FRONTAGE LOT: | A subdivision lot which has access from an interior subdivision street and also abuts the right-of-way of a collector or arterial street along the rear lot line. |
EASEMENT: | The area of land set aside or over with a liberty, privilege or advantage in land without profit, existing separate from the ownership of the land, is granted to the public, a part of the public, a person(s), or an organization. Such liberty, privilege or advantage may be in the way to provide vehicular or pedestrian access, park access, the provision of private and public utilities, etc. |
EXCAVATION: | Either the removal of earth from its natural position, or the cavity resulting from the removal of earth. |
FILL: | Earth materials used either as a manmade deposit or to raise an existing grade and shall mean the depth or volume of such material. The reference for a fill is the distance from a survey elevation stake to a required higher adjacent elevation. |
FINAL PLAT: | A map and supporting documents, prepared in accordance with the provisions of this title and prepared for recording in the office of the county recorder. |
FRONTAGE: | The portion of a lot which fronts on a dedicated right-of-way or street. |
GRADING: | Either an excavation or fill, or the act of excavating or filling of soil or gravel material prior to landscaping or the installation of concrete or paving, or other required final surfacing material. |
IMPROVEMENTS: | Curbs, gutters, sidewalks, gradings, paving, landscaping, water, sewer and power systems, drainage systems, fences, public facilities, amenities and other such requirements of this title. |
IMPROVEMENTS, PUBLIC: | Elements of a subdivision development defined under “improvements” that are constructed by the developer and dedicated to the City, or another form of government, for the benefit of the general public and continual care of the City or form of government to which the improvements are dedicated. Public improvements include but are not limited to public utilities, streets, curb and gutter, sidewalk and any landscaped open space and structures therein that will be dedicated to the City for future public use and maintenance by the City. |
LAND USE TITLE: | Title 11 of this code. |
LOT: | A parcel of real property shown as a delineated parcel of land with a number and designation on the final plat of a subdivision recorded in the office of the county recorder. |
LOT LINE ADJUSTMENT: | Relocation of a lot line between adjoining lots or a lot and parcels within a platted subdivision. |
MONUMENT: | A permanent survey marker established by the county surveyor and shown on a final plat with the state plane coordinates, and/or a survey marker set in accordance with the City Engineer’s specifications and refenced to county survey monuments. |
NON-CLIMBABLE FENCE: | Any fence that significantly impedes the traversing or crossing of the fence by means of material or design. A non-climbable fence does not include any chain link fence whether or not barbed wire is provided. |
OWNER: | Includes the plural as well as the singular, and may mean either a person, firm, association, partnership, private corporation, public or quasi-public corporation, or any combination thereof. |
PARCEL: | A portion of real property with the dimension or boundaries of which are defined by record in the office of the county recorder described by metes and bounds. A parcel of land is typically an unsubdivided portion of real property but may be part of a final subdivision plat for the purposes of designating the real property separate from lots described within the subdivision. |
PARCEL LINE ADJUSTMENT: | A recorded agreement between owners of adjoining parcels of land, not located within a platted subdivision, adjusting the mutual line, either by deed or by a parcel line agreement. |
PLANNING COMMISSION: | The Clearfield City Planning Commission. |
PRELIMINARY PLAT: | A map and supporting documents, prepared in accordance with the provisions of this title for the purposes of preliminary review prior to the development of a final plat. |
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT GUARANTEE AGREEMENT: | An agreement between Clearfield City and Subdivider/Developer obligating funds for the purpose of guaranteeing the completion of public improvements required by code and/or the warranty of said public improvements. Timelines for the performance of work and warranty period are established within the agreement along with penalties and procedures for the use of the guarantee funds by the City if necessary. |
PUBLIC UTILITY: | Utilities such as culinary or secondary water, sewer, storm drainage system, natural gas, electric power, cable television, telephone, fiberoptic, etc. |
REVIEW CYCLE: | As defined in Utah State Code section 10-9a-604.2, a review cycle means the occurrence of: |
A. The applicant’s (subdivider’s) submittal of a complete subdivision land use application. | |
B. The municipality’s review of that subdivision land use application. | |
C. The municipality’s response to that subdivision land use application, in accordance with this section (10-9a-604.2); and | |
D. The applicant’s (subdivider’s) reply to the municipality’s response that addresses each of the municipality’s required modifications or request for additional information. | |
SLOPE: | The rise or fall in elevation along a line perpendicular to the contours of the land connecting the highest point of land to the lowest point of land within a lot. (Ex. A vertical rise of one hundred feet (100') between two (2) points one hundred feet (100') apart measured on a horizontal plane is a one hundred percent (100%) grade or a one to one (1:1) slope). |
STREET: | A right-of-way for the purpose of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. |
STREET, ARTERIAL: | A street, existing or proposed, of significant continuity which is the main means of access and connection within and between communities in the region. |
STREET, COLLECTOR: | A street, existing or proposed, of considerable continuity which is the main means of access to the regional street system. |
STREET, LOCAL: | A street, existing or proposed which is supplementary to a collector or arterial street which serves or is intended to serve the local needs of a neighborhood. |
STREET, PRIVATE: | A street, existing or proposed, which has been reserved by dedication unto the subdivider or lot owners, to be used as private access to serve the lots platted within the subdivision and complying with the adopted street cross section standards of the City and maintained by the subdivider or other private agency. |
SUBDIVIDER: | Any person who: a) having an interest in land, causes it, directly or indirectly, to be divided into a subdivision ; or who b) directly or indirectly, sells, leases, or develops, or offers to sell, lease, or develop, or advertises for sale, lease or development, any interest, lot, parcel, site, unit, or plat in a subdivision; or who c) engages directly, or through an agent, in the business of selling, leasing, developing or offering for sale, lease, or development a subdivision; or who d) is directly or indirectly controlled by, or under direct, or indirect common control with any of the foregoing. |
SUBDIVISION: | As defined in title 10, chapter 9, Utah State Code, “means any land that is divided, resubdivided, or proposed to be divided into two or more lots 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.” |
SUBDIVISION AMENDMENT: | As defined in title 10, chapter 9, of Utah State Code, “means an amendment to a recorded subdivision in accordance with Section 10-9a-608", and prepared in accordance with the provisions of this title, that: |
A. Vacates all or a portion of the subdivision; | |
B. Alters the outside boundary of the subdivision; | |
C. Changes the number of lots within the subdivision; | |
D. Alters a public right-of-way, a public easement, or public infrastructure within the subdivision; or | |
E. Alters a common area or other common amenity within the subdivision. | |
UTILITIES: | Culinary or secondary water, sewer, storm drainage system, natural gas, electric power, cable television, telephone, fiberoptic, and other services deemed to be of public utility nature by the City. (Ord. 2024-01, 6-13-2023) |