For the purpose of this title, and unless the context otherwise requires, certain terms are herein defined as follows:
ABBREVIATIONS: Used herein shall be as follows:
AASHTO: Denotes the American Association Of State Highway Transportation Officials.
BMPs: Best management practices.
EPA: U.S. environmental protection agency.
IC: State statutes of the state of Idaho.
ISPWC: Idaho standards for public works construction.
SVCC: Sun Valley city code.
SWPPP: Storm water pollution prevention plan.
APPLICANT: The individual, firm, corporation, partnership, association, syndicate, trust or other entity that has legal ownership of a specific property, or an authorized individual who executes the application and initiates proceedings for review of that specific property in accordance with the provisions of this title.
BUILDING OFFICIAL: The city building official of the city of Sun Valley.
CITY: The city of Sun Valley.
CITY ENGINEER: The city of Sun Valley city engineer or his/her designee.
DEVELOPMENT: The carrying out of any excavation, construction, improvement or building activity; the making of any material change in the use or appearance of any structure of land; or the subdivision of land as defined in the SVCC. When appropriate to the context, development refers to the act of developing or the result of development.
DIRECTOR: The city of Sun Valley community development director or his/her designee.
DRIVEWAY: A private roadway providing access to a parking space, garage, dwelling or other structure.
EASEMENT: Any and all existing and future easements, recorded, unrecorded, or prescriptive, in favor of or used by the city of Sun Valley, Idaho, for any municipal, public utility or other purpose whatsoever. Such easements include, but are not limited to, easements for vehicular, pedestrian and emergency access or traffic, utility or drainage easements or other public purposes.
ENCROACHMENT: Any private utility or other improvement, use or enjoyment of any right of way, easement or public property which is owned, held, used, or controlled by the city.
PERMIT: A permit for excavation or construction of road, street or appurtenant improvement within the city.
RIGHT OF WAY: Any property owned by, or dedicated to, the city for any municipal, public utility or other purpose whatsoever. Such rights of way include, but are not limited to, streets, avenues, alleys, parkways, sidewalks, drainageways, utility lines and hiking and riding trails.
STANDARDS: The most current version of Idaho standards for public works construction, as amended.
STREET: A public thoroughfare or private right of way or easement of public record which affords a principal means of access to abutting property, including avenues, boulevards, courts, terraces, ways, lanes and the like, but not including parking lots.
Alley: A minor street providing secondary or service access at the back or side of a property otherwise abutting a street.
Arterial: Streets providing through traffic movement between major districts.
Collector: Streets serving to collect traffic within residential or other areas for distribution outside the area. Collectors connect residential and arterial streets.
Cul-De-Sac: A street connected to another street at one end only and provided with turnaround space at its terminus.
Frontage: A minor street, parallel to and adjacent to an arterial street, to provide access to abutting properties.
Highway: A street designated as a highway by an appropriate state or federal agency.
Loop: A street with both terminal points on the same street of origin.
Private: A street that is not dedicated for public use or maintenance.
Type A: Those private streets serving two (2) to five (5) dwelling units.
Type B: Those private streets serving developments in RM-1, RM-2, CC and SC zones.
Type C: Those private streets not otherwise identified in the definitions of "type A" and "type B" private streets.
Residential: Streets providing direct access to dwelling units with little or no through traffic.
Roundabout: Circular intersections with channelized approaches, all entering traffic required to yield, and appropriate geometric curvature to ensure that travel speeds on the circulatory roadway are typically less than thirty (30) miles per hour.
Stub Street: A reasonable future subdivision through road from one subdivision to another connecting neighborhoods by allowing vehicular traffic to travel from one neighborhood to the next without using arterial streets.
UTILITIES: Includes, by way of example and not by way of limitation, installations for conduction of water, sewage, gas, telephone, electricity, television, stormwater and similar facilities providing services to and used by the public. All utility service facilities except those temporarily erected during approved construction shall be installed underground. (Ord. 382, 10-25-2006; amd. Ord. 455, 12-6-2012)