For the purposes of this Title, the following words shall have the meanings set out in this section:
A. "Advisory Agency" means the City of Gridley Planning Commission as advisory to the City Council.
B. "Alley" means a public way, other than a street or highway, providing a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting property.
C. "Building site" means a parcel of land which is identified on a final map or parcel map recorded in the office of the County Recorder with a separate and distinct number or letter. (See "Lot")
D. "CEQA" means the California Environmental Quality Act.
E. "City code" means the City of Gridley Municipal Code.
F. "City Administrator's designee" means a person authorized to practice land surveying pursuant to the Business and Professions Code, State of California.
G. "Commission" means the Planning Commission of the City of Gridley. (See "Advisory Agency")
H. "Council" means the City Council of the City of Gridley.
I. "County" means the County of Butte.
J. "Director of Utilities" means the Director of the Gridley Municipal Services, or the duly authorized representative of said director.
K. "EIR" means an Environmental Impact Report prepared pursuant to the requirements of CEQA.
L. "Final map" means a map showing a subdivision of five or more parcels for which a tentative and final map are required by the Subdivision Map Act and this Title, prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act and this Title, and designed to be filed for recordation in the office of the County Recorder.
M. "Fire protection" means such fire hydrants and other protective measures as may be reasonably required by the Fire Marshal of the Gridley Fire Department for protection of property to be located within a subdivision.
N. "Flood hazard" means a hazard to land or improvements due to seasonal inundation or to overflow water having sufficient velocity to transport or deposit debris, scour the surface soil, dislodge or damage buildings, or erode the banks of water courses.
O. "General Plan" means the adopted current and long range planning document outlining the goals and policies of acceptable land uses to guide the growth and land development within the City of Gridley.
P. "Geological hazard" means a hazard inherent in the crust of the earth, or artificially created, which is dangerous or potentially dangerous to life, property or improvements due to the movement, failure, or shifting of earth.
Q. "Inundation" means ponded water or water in motion of sufficient depth to damage property due to the presence of the water or to deposits of alluvium.
R. "Lot" means a parcel of land which is identified on a final map or parcel map recorded in the office of the County Recorder with a separate and distinct number or letter. (See "Building Site")
S. "Lot line adjustment" means a modification of a boundary line between two (2) or more adjacent legal parcels where the modification does not create new parcels, does not delete legal parcels, does not reduce any of the parcels below the minimum lot area for the zoning designation as set forth in Title 17, and does not alter any public rights-of-way or easements.
T. "Map Act" means the Subdivision Map Act of the State of California. (See "Subdivision Map Act")
U. "Merger" means the joining of two or more contiguous parcels of land under one ownership into one parcel.
V. "Mobile home lot" means any area designated, designed or usable for the occupancy of one mobile home on a temporary, semi-permanent, or permanent basis.
W. "Multiple-family dwelling unit" means a building or portion thereof designed for occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other, but under one roof.
X. "Negative declaration" is a document that states upon completion of an initial study, that there is no substantial evidence that the project may have a significant effect on the environment pursuant to the requirements of CEQA.
Y. "Parcel map" means a map showing a subdivision of four or less parcels, as required by the Subdivision Map Act and this Title, prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act and this Title and designed to be filed for recordation in the office of the County Recorder.
Z. "Pedestrian way" means a right-of-way or easement designed for use by pedestrians only and not intended for use by motor vehicles of any kind. A pedestrian way may be located within or without a street right-of-way, at grade, or grade separated from vehicular traffic.
AA. "Planned development" is a type of building development and also a regulatory process. As a building development, it is a designed grouping of both varied and compatible land uses, such as housing, recreation, commercial centers, and industrial parks, all within one contained development or subdivision.
BB. "Planning Director" means the principal administrative officer of the Planning Department.
CC. "Post-subdivision modification" means a subdivision modification for which a request is filed after approval of the tentative map.
DD. "Private road easement" means a parcel of land not dedicated as a public street, over which a private easement for road purposes is proposed to be or has been granted to the owners of property contiguous or adjacent thereto which intersects or connects with a public street, or a private street; in each instance the instrument creating such easement shall be or shall have been duly recorded or filed in the office of the County Recorder.
EE. "Public way" means any street, highway, alley, pedestrian way, equestrian or hiking trail, biking path, channel, viaduct, subway, tunnel, bridge, easement, right-of-way, or other way in which the public use has a right of use.
FF. "Responsible Agency" means all public agencies other than the lead agency which have discretionary approval power over a project.
GG. "Revised tentative map" means a tentative map filed for approval showing a revised arrangement of the streets, alleys, easements or lots, or a modification of the boundary of property for which a tentative map has been previously approved.
HH. "Roadway" means that portion of a right-of-way or easement for a street, highway or alley designed or used to accommodate the movement of motor vehicles.
II. Street, Arterial. "Arterial Street" means a street that carries the vehicular traffic of local and collector streets to and from highways, through traffic between nearby cities with limited direct access to abutting properties.
JJ. Street, Collector. "Collector Street" means a street that provides for through traffic movement within and between neighborhoods, as well as access to abutting property and collects and distributes vehicular traffic moving between arterial streets and local streets.
KK. Street, Cul-de-sac. "Cul-de-sac Street" means a street which is designed to remain permanently closed at one end with the closed end terminated by a vehicular turnaround. For the purposes of these regulations, the length of a cul-de-sac street shall be measured from the center line of the intersecting street along the center line of the cul-de-sac to the center of the radius of the turnaround.
LL. Street, Industrial. "Industrial Street" is a local street that serves industrial areas, has wider travel lanes, and wider allowances for on-street parking to accommodate trucks.
MM. Street, Local. "Local Street" means any street other than a collector street, arterial or freeway that provides direct access to abutting properties and serves movement within a single neighborhood or part of a neighborhood designed for low volume and low speed travel.
NN. Street, Major. "Major Street" means a street carrying through traffic between neighborhoods more than minor collector streets allowing more direct access to abutting property and may serve a single neighborhood.
OO. Street, Minor. "Minor Street" means any street other than a collector street, major or freeway providing direct access to abutting property and serving local as distinguished from through traffic.
PP. "Subdivider" means a person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association who proposes to divide, divides, or causes to be divided, real property into a subdivision for himself/herself or for others.
QQ. "Subdivision" means the division of any improved or unimproved land shown on the latest equalized County assessment roll as a unit or as contiguous units for the purpose of a sale, lease, or financing, whether immediate or future. Property shall be considered as contiguous units even if it is separated by roads, streets, utility easements or railroad rights-of-way. "Subdivision" includes a condominium project as defined in the Civil Code, or a community apartment project, as defined in the Business and Professional Code, or the conversion of five or more existing dwelling units to a stock cooperative, as defined in the Business and Professions Code. Any conveyance of land to a governmental agency, public entity, or public utility shall not be considered a division of land for purposes of computing the number of parcels. All other divisions of land not expressly defined in this section are subject to the requirements of this Title, State and County health requirements for water and sewage disposal, conformity with the zoning district containing the land and must be accessible through approved right-of-way.
RR. "Subdivision Map Act" means the Subdivision Map Act of the State of California, Government Code Section 66410 et seq., inclusive, as that Act currently provides or is subsequently amended.
SS. "Subdivision modification" means a request by a subdivider for modifications to the requirements or standards imposed by these subdivision regulations filed prior to the approval of the tentative map.
TT. "Tentative map" means a map prepared in accordance with the provision of the Map Act and this Title to show the design of a proposed subdivision and the existing conditions in and around the land proposed to be divided. Such map shall be an accurate and detailed field survey "Tentative map" includes a tentative map prepared in connection with the parcel map or subdivision pursuant to the provisions of this Title.
UU. "Vehicular access right" means the right or easement for vehicular access of owners or occupants of abutting lands to a public way.
VV. "Vesting tentative map" means a tentative map that has a vested right to proceed with development in substantial compliance with the ordinances, policies, and standards in effect at the time the vesting tentative parcel map or vesting tentative subdivision map is approved or conditionally approved and recorded. Such map shall have printed conspicuously on its face the words "Vesting Tentative Map" at the time it is filed as an application and recorded in accordance with the provisions thereof.
WW. "Water supply" means such water supply and distribution facilities as are necessary to provide a reliable and adequate water supply for appropriate residential, commercial and industrial use and for public and private fire protection purposes.
(Ord. 824-2016 § 2 (part), 2017)