As used in this chapter, the following terms are defined in this section:
"Accepted by the city" means the acceptance by the city of newly constructed public improvements as evidenced by the recording by the city of a Notice of Completion with the county, or by the issuance of a final inspection of an encroachment permit.
"Arterial street" shall have the same meaning as set forth in Section 16.44.050 of the Visalia Municipal Code.
A "capital improvement" includes transportation planning, preliminary engineering, engineering design studies, land surveys, right-of-way acquisition, engineering, permitting and construction of all the necessary features for any street construction project including, but not limited to:
1. Construction of new through lanes;
2. Construction of new turn lanes;
3. Construction of new bridges or culverts;
4. Construction of new drainage facilities in conjunction with new street construction;
5. Purchase and installation of traffic signalization (including new and upgraded signalization);
6. Construction of curbs, medians, and shoulders; and
7. Relocating utilities to accommodate new street construction.
"Collector street" shall have the same meaning as set forth in Section 16.44.050 of the Visalia Municipal Code.
"Developer" means any person who undertakes a land development project within the city.
"Development permit" means a regulatory approval of a land development project by the city, including but not limited to a building permit, subdivision map, parcel map, conditional use permit or planned development permit, as those terms are defined in the Municipal Code.
"Expansion" of the capacity of a road applies to all street and intersection capacity enhancements and includes but is not limited to extensions, widening, intersection improvements, upgrading signalization, and expansion of bridges or culverts.
"Feepayer" means a developer who is required to pay the transportation impact with the issuance of a building permit or permit for mobile home installation.
"Freeway" shall have the same meaning as set forth in Section 16.44.050 of the Visalia Municipal Code.
"Land development project" means any land division, building, construction, reconstruction or remodeling project that results in new improvement to real property and requires the obtaining of development permits from the city.
"Land use categories" means the specific list of land uses shown in a fee schedule developed under the authority of this chapter that generate vehicle trips and were used to project future vehicle trips for the calculation of the transportation impact fee.
"Level of service" shall have the same meaning as set forth in the Highway Research Board's Highway Capacity Manual (latest Edition, as amended).
"Major arterial" shall have the same meaning as set forth in Section 16.44.050 of the Visalia Municipal Code.
"Nexus study" means the report titled "Traffic Impact Fee Update Nexus Study City of Visalia," dated November 13, 2008, and any amendment or modification of such report that may be accepted by resolution of the City Council in a manner consistent with the requirements (including the required findings) contained in the Mitigation Fee Act (California Government Code section 66000 et seq.).
"Planned transportation facilities" means that portion of the arterial/collector street system that is established in the adopted circulation element of the general plan of the city and is included for funding in the calculation of the transportation impact fee in the nexus study.
"Site-related improvements" means street and related improvements and right-of-way dedications for direct access improvements to and/or within the land development project in question. Site related improvements include, but are not limited to the following: (1) street improvements consisting of, or the equivalent of, a parking lane with curb and gutter along the arterial/collector street frontages of the land development project; (2) local streets leading to the land development project; driveways and streets within the land development project; (4) acceleration and deceleration lanes, and right and left rum lanes leading to those streets and driveways; (5) traffic control measures for those streets and driveways; and (6) utility relocations.
"Supplemental improvements" means planned transportation facilities or master planned facility improvements imposed upon a development project that are neither: (1) located within the frontage area of the project being developed; nor (2) site related improvements.
"Street" shall have the same meaning as set forth in Section 16.44.050 of the Visalia Municipal Code.
"Trip" means a single or one (1) direction vehicle movement with either the origin or destination (exiting or entering) inside the study site.
"Trip ends" means the total of all trips entering plus all trips leaving a designated land use or building type over a period of time. (Ord. 2017-01 (part), 2017: Ord. 2013-01, 2013: Ord. 2008-14, 2008)