The following definitions shall apply to this chapter:
(a) "Agricultural building" means a building located on property that allows an agricultural use and the building is used to store items used in a farming operation, including farm products, livestock, machinery or equipment, but is not used for residential purposes or open to the public.
(b) "Centerline" means an imaginary line on a street designated on an official survey, filed map or other document the County has approved that shows the center of a future or existing street.
(c) "Commercial zone" means property on which the Zoning Ordinance allows a commercial use.
(d) "Corner cut-off setback area" means any of the four triangular corner areas that begin 20 feet back from the setback lines of two intersecting streets that are established pursuant to section 51.307 of this chapter.
(e) "County Public Road Standards" (CPRS) means those standards for public roads approved by the Board of Supervisors and on file with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.
(f) "Director PDS" means the Director of the County Department of Planning and Development Services or anyone to whom the Director has delegated the authority to perform the Director's duties in this chapter.
(g) "Director DPW" means the Director of the Department of Public Works or anyone to whom the Director has delegated the authority to perform the Director's duties in this chapter.
(h) "Dwelling" means a building or portion of a building used exclusively as a residence. A "dwelling" includes a single-family, two-family, multi-family unit or any other family residential use recognized by the Zoning Ordinance, but does not include a hotel, boarding house or other group residential use identified in the Zoning Ordinance.
(i) "General Plan highway" means a street identified on the Circulation Element of the County General Plan with an established centerline.
(j) "Improvement" means work a person installs or agrees to install as a condition of a permit issued pursuant to this chapter.
(k) "Manufacturing zone" means property on which the Zoning Ordinance allows a manufacturing or industrial use.
(l) "Multiple residential zone" means property on which the Zoning Ordinance allows one of the following building types: "Attached, Three-to-Eight Dwelling Units" or "Multi-Dwelling."
(m) "Road right of way" means the area designated for use as a street, including the travel portion of the street, the shoulders, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, utilities, drainage facilities, traffic signs and any other improvements required by the CPRS.
(n) "Setback line" means an imaginary line on property that is parallel to the centerline of an abutting street that indicates the area on property beyond which erection, construction or placement of a structure is prohibited.
(o) "Street" means a County highway, State highway, other public road or alley, or a private thoroughfare at least ten feet wide that connects with a County highway, State highway, other public road or an alley which affords primary access to an abutting lot.
(p) "Street setback line" is a setback determined by measuring the distance from the centerline.
(q) "Structure" has the same meaning as the term "structure" in the County Building Code and includes a building.
(r) "Zoning setback line" is a setback established by the County Zoning Ordinance.
(Added by Ord. No. 9974 (N.S.), effective 4-3-09; amended by Ord. No. 10224 (N.S.), effective 10-25-12)