APPEALS BOARD:
(A) The first appeals board means the planning commission of the city of Placerville.
(B) The final appeals board means the city council of the city of Placerville.
APPROVED ACCESS: Approved access means that all lots shall have frontage to an improved street meeting city standards. The improved street shall be the area contiguous to the lots.
BUILDING SITE: A parcel or lot of land containing not less than the prescribed minimum area required by the Placerville zoning ordinance or other applicable local ordinance existing at the time of the creation of the lot or parcel and occupied or intended to be occupied by buildings or structures.
CUL-DE-SAC: A street open at one end only, and providing at the other end special facilities for the turning around of vehicular traffic.
IMPROVEMENT: Refers to such street work and utilities to be installed or agreed to be installed by the divider to be used for public or private streets, highways, ways, and easements, as are necessary for the general use of the lot owners in the subdivision and local neighborhood traffic and drainage needs as a condition precedent to the approval and acceptance of the parcel map thereof. Improvement also refers to such other specific improvements or types of improvements, the installation of which, either by the divider, by public agencies, by private utilities, by any other entity approved by the local agency or by a combination thereof, is necessary or convenient to ensure conformity to or implementation of the general plan required by article 5 (commencing with section 65300) and article 8 (commencing with section 65450) of chapter 3 of division 1 of the Government Code.
IMPROVEMENT STANDARDS: The standards adopted by the city of Placerville regulating the development of land as a division.
LOT LINE ADJUSTMENT: The relocation of the boundary or boundaries between two (2) or more adjoining parcels of land and which does not create any additional parcels of land.
PARCEL MAP: Refers to a map prepared in accordance with the subdivision map act and this chapter which map is designed to be filed in the office of the county recorder.
PARCEL SPLIT: The division of any real property improved or unimproved, or portion thereof, shown on the latest equalized county assessment roll as a unit or contiguous units which are divided for the purpose of sale, lease or financing, whether immediate or future, with the exception of those land divisions defined in subsection 10-8-3(C) of this chapter. Property shall be considered as contiguous units, even if it is separated by roads, streets, utility easements or railroad rights of way.
PUBLIC STREET: The full width of the right of way of any road, street, lane, alley or pedestrian walkway used by or for the general public, whether or not those roads, streets, lanes, alleys, and pedestrian walkways have been accepted as and declared to be part of the city system of public streets, except streets forming a part of the state highway system.
REMAINDER: Shall be considered as areas fifty percent (50%) in excess of the smallest parcel shown on the parcel map, but not less than five (5) acres and/or areas of contiguous ownership in an adjoining section.
STREETS: Includes highways and refers to land primarily devoted to vehicular traffic use and extending to the boundaries of the right of way of the adjoining owner whether designated as a highway, freeway, throughway, thoroughfare, avenue, boulevard, road, parkway, lane, alley, place, court, circle, driveway, or other similar term.
SUBDIVIDER: A person, firm, corporation, partnership or association, who proposes to divide, divides, or causes to be divided, real property into a division for himself or for others, except that employees and consultants of such persons or entities, acting in such capacity, are not subdividers.
TENTATIVE PARCEL MAP: Refers to a map made for the purpose of showing the design of a proposed division or reversion to acreage and the existing conditions in and around it. Such map need not be based upon an accurate or detailed field survey of the property. (Ord. 1152, 4-25-1978)