For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ABUTTING. Adjoining with a common boundary line.
ACCESS. A way or means of approach to provide pedestrian, bicycles or motor vehicular entrance to a property.
ADJOIN (ADJOINING). The same as ABUTTING.
ALLEY. A public or private way permanently reserved as a means of access to abutting property, usually with principal access from another street.
APWA. American Public Works Association.
ARTERIAL HIGHWAYS. Highway 62, which carries nearly all vehicle trips entering, leaving or passing through the city area.
BUFFER. A land area or physical barrier such as a wall, hedge, fence, waterway or other feature that has been established for the purpose of reducing or mitigating the adverse effects of a land use upon another land use.
COLLECTOR STREETS. These provide both access and circulation within residential neighborhoods and commercial areas.
CONTIGUOUS. Same as ABUTTING or ADJOINING.
CORNER CLEARANCE. The distance from an intersection of a public or private road to the nearest access connection, measured from the closest edge of the pavement of the connection along the traveled way.
CUL-DE-SAC. A local street with only one outlet and having a turn-around at the opposite end.
DOUBLE-FRONTAGE LOTS. Lots which have frontage on two or more streets.
DRAINAGE WAY. A natural or artificial watercourse, including adjacent riparian vegetation, that has the specific function of transmitting natural stream water or storm runoff water from a point of higher elevation to a point of lower elevation "drainage".
EASEMENT. A right that a person has to use someone's land for a specific purpose such as access or utilities.
FLOODWAY. The channel of a river or stream and adjacent land areas that must be reserved exclusively to discharge the waters of a base flood.
GARAGE. A building or portion thereof in which a motor vehicle containing flammable liquids or gas in its tank is intended to be stored, repaired or kept.
LOCAL ACCESS STREETS. The primary function is to provide access to immediately adjacent land. Service to through-traffic movement on local streets is discouraged.
LOT. A parcel of land lawfully created in accordance with the land division, partitioning or subdivision regulations in effect at the time of its creation.
ODOT. Oregon Department of Transportation.
OFF-SITE PARKING. Other than residential which is within reasonable walking distance of subject property.
RETAINING WALL. A wall designed to resist the lateral displacement of soil or other materials.
SETBACK. The distance from a right-of-way, easement boundary of a road or access way, or from a lot line to any point of a building (minimum setback distances, as required for each zoning district, are sometimes referred to as YARD AREAS or PROTECTION STANDARDS).
STREET. A public or private way that is created to provide ingress or egress for persons to one or more lots, parcels, areas or tracts of land and including the terms road, highway, lane, avenue, alley or similar designations.
STRUCTURES. Anything constructed or built which requires location on the ground or is attached to something having a location on the ground including swimming pools, covered patios, fences and walls; but not including, normal plants and landscaping materials, paved outdoor areas, walks, driveways and similar improvements.
SURFACE WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. All natural and constructed facilities used to regulate the quantity and quality of surface water, including drainage easements, culverts, storm drains, catch basins, drainage ditches, natural drainage ways, stream corridors, rivers, ponds, wetlands and impoundments. A surface or storm water facility serves on or more of three primary functions.
(1) DETENTION FACILITY. A facility to temporarily store storm water runoff and subsequently release it at a slower rate than would otherwise occur.
(2) RETENTION FACILITY. A facility to collect and hold storm water runoff with no surface outflow.
(3) WATER QUALITY FACILITY. A facility, which physically, chemically or biologically removes pollutants and sediments from storm water before reaching natural wetlands or streams.
TEMPORARY. Unless otherwise defined or specified, such as a condition of approval of a particular land use, TEMPORARY shall mean 30 days or less within any 12-month period.
UBC. Uniform Building Code.
YARD. An open space, other than a court, that is unobstructed from the ground upward, except where specifically provided by the UBC (Uniform Building Code). Required yard areas are those portions of a lot that lie between the exterior property lines and the "building envelope" defined by the setback distances from those property lines.
(Ord. 223, passed 11-18-2004)