As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases are defined as follows.
ACCESSORY BUILDING or ACCESSORY STRUCTURE. A building or structure detached from a principal building on the same lot and customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal building or use.
DEVELOPMENT. The construction, conversion, structural alteration, relocation or enlargement of any structure or any activity requiring a permit from or the approval by the county which physically disturbs a site, including grading of any parcel of real property within the habitat conservation plan study area.
FEE ASSESSMENT AREA. The land within the San Benito County habitat conservation plan study area and described in § 19.19.003.
HABITAT CONSERVATION PLAN (HCP). A plan prepared pursuant to the provisions of 16 U.S.C. § 1539.
INTERIM MITIGATION. Fees collected from development for the purpose of financing the HCP and funding habitat acquisition and/or habitat enhancement for protected plant and/or animal species.
MINERAL DEVELOPMENT. Application and development for the purpose of oil, gas and mineral extraction or enhancement of mineral extraction.
PERMIT. Written governmental approval or authorization issued by an authorized county official empowering the holder thereof to a certain land use entitlement permitted by the San Benito County zoning, building or grading ordinances.
STRUCTURE. Covered or enclosed habitable space.
UNDEVELOPED. Land not previously occupied by a building or used for a purpose subject to interim mitigation fees or land for which a permit was not issued prior to the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter.
(1966 Code, § 7A.1-2) (Ord. 541, § 2)