A. Certain terms used in this chapter shall be defined, for the purpose of this chapter only, as follows:
1. Class I habitat. The areas identified on the Critical and Sensitive Biological Communities Maps as Class I habitat.
2. Class II habitat. The areas identified on the Critical and Sensitive Biological Communities Maps as Class II habitat.
3. Fence or wall: A structure intended for confinement, prevention of intrusion, boundary identification or screening of an activity or land use—includes fences and walls of four feet or less.
4. Land parcel: An area of land with boundaries recorded in the Pima County Recorder's Office.
5. Master plan development: An area consisting of one or more land parcels or a portion of a land parcel for which a master subdivision plat is to be recorded with the general intent that, in a phased manner, individual lots are to be resubdivided or be subject to a development plan.
6. Native: Growing in the Arizona portion of the Sonoran Desert, without cultivation, and not introduced after 1920. A plant which occurs within the range of Sonoran Desert plants, but only in Mexico, is not native.
7. Private area: A land area adjacent to a residential structure, enclosed by a fence, wall or native vegetative screening, and not exceeding one-half acre.
8. Public preserve: An area under public ownership and management that is designated at the federal, state, or county level as a special status recreation or conservation area.
9. Riparian habitat: An association of plant and animal communities containing a high density and diversity of species, occurring in, on or immediately adjacent to a watercourse. It is typically composed of mesquite, catclaw acacia, desert broom, whitehorn acacia and blue palo verde, providing uninterrupted vegetative cover.
(Ord. 1998-51 § 3, 1998; Ord. 1998-38 § 1 (part), 1998; Ord. 1988-116 § 1 (part), 1988)