For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ADEQ. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, a state agency that administers programs ensuring that qualities of air and water meet healthful, regulatory standards.
ADWR. Arizona Department of Water Resources, a state agency that administers use and availability of water resources including those within an Active Management Area (AMA) for compliance with the Groundwater Management Code.
COMMISSION. The Town of Dewey-Humboldt Planning and Zoning Advisory Commission.
COUNCIL. The Town Council of the town.
DESIGN. Street alignment, grades and widths; alignment and widths of easements and rights-of-way for ingress, egress and drainage, and where appropriate for water systems and sanitary sewers; and the arrangement and orientation of lots.
DEPARTMENT. The Community Development Department which is designated to receive and review all land use permit applications, facilitate planning issues and to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
EASEMENT. A right held by one property owner to make use of the land of another for a limited purpose (e.g. an access easement for ingress and egress).
IMPROVEMENT. Required installations, pursuant to this chapter and other subdivision regulations, including grading, sewer and water utilities, streets, easements, traffic control devices as a condition to the approval and acceptance of the final plat thereof.
LAND SPLIT. The division of improved or unimproved land whose area is two and one-half acres
or less into two or three tracts or parcels of land for the purpose of sale or lease where no new street is involved.
MAJOR SUBDIVISION. See the definition of SUBDIVISION.
MINOR SUBDIVISION. The division of improved or unimproved land into two or three tracts or parcels of land and where a new street is involved, for the purpose of sale or lease; or, a "subdivision", as defined in this section, which contains ten or less lots, tracts or parcels.
PLAT. A map of a subdivision:
(1) PRELIMINARY PLAT. A preliminary map, including supporting data, indicating a proposed subdivision design prepared in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and those of any local applicable ordinance.
(2) FINAL PLAT. A map of all or part of a subdivision essentially conforming to an approved preliminary plat, prepared in accordance with the provision of this chapter, those of any local applicable ordinance and state statute.
RECORDED PLAT. A final plat bearing all of the certificates of approval required by this chapter, any local applicable ordinance and state statute.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. Any public or private right-of-way and includes any area required for public use pursuant to any general or specific plan as adopted by the town.
SKETCH PLAN. An informal plan indicating relevant existing features of a tract of land and its surroundings and the general layout of the proposed development of the property.
STREET. Any existing or proposed passageway that affords a principal means of vehicular access to abutting property including street, avenue, boulevard, road, lane, walk, alley, parkway, place, bridge, highway, freeway, expressway, viaduct or easement for public or private vehicular access; or a street shown in a plat heretofore approved pursuant to law; or a street in a plat duly filed and recorded in the county recorder's office. Streets include common driveways and all land within the street right-of-way whether improved or unimproved, and include such improvements as pavement, shoulders, curbs, gutters, bikeways, pedestrian pathways, sidewalks, parking space, bridges and viaducts.
SUBDIVIDER. A person, firm, corporation, partnership, association, syndicate, trust or other legal entity that files application and initiates proceedings for the subdivision of land in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, any local applicable ordinance and state statute, except that an individual serving as agent for such legal entity is not a subdivider.
SUBDIVISION. Improved or unimproved land or lands divided for the purpose of financing, sale or lease, whether immediate or future, into four or more lots, tracts or parcels of land, or, if a new street is involved, any such property which is divided into two or more lots, tracts or parcels of land, or, any such property, the boundaries of which have been fixed by a recorded plat, which is divided into more than two parts.
SUBDIVISION. Also includes any condominium, cooperative, community apartment, townhouse or similar project containing four or more parcels, in which an undivided interest in the land is coupled with the right of exclusive occupancy of any unit located thereon, but plats of such projects need not show the buildings or the manner in which the buildings or airspace above the property shown on the plat are to be divided. SUBDIVISION does not include the following:
(1) The sale or exchange of parcels of land to or between adjoining property owners if such sale or exchange does not create additional lots.
(2) The partitioning of land in accordance with other statutes regulating the partitioning of land held in common ownership.
(3) The leasing of apartments, offices, stores or similar space within a building or trailer park, nor to mineral, oil or gas leases.
SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS. This chapter's regulating of the design and improvement of subdivisions enacted under the provisions of this chapter or any other regulations for the design and improvement of infrastructure.
(Ord. 09-51, passed 4-21-2009; Am. Ord. 15-113, passed 6-16-2015)