The following terms used in this title shall have the respective meanings hereinafter set forth:
ALLEY: A public way which affords a secondary means of access to abutting property.
BENCH MARK: A mark affixed to a permanent or semipermanent object for an established elevation datum.
COLLECTOR STREET: A street which carries traffic from minor streets to the major street system, including the principal entrance streets of residence development and the primary circulating streets within such a development.
COUNTY: Washington County, Utah.
COUNTY ENGINEER: The person employed or retained by Washington County for engineering purposes.
CUL-DE-SAC: A street with a single common ingress and egress with a turnaround or bulb at the end. A knuckle is similar to a bulb, but is located on a through street.
EASEMENT: The quantity of land set aside or over which a liberty, privilege or advantage in land without profit, existing distinct from the ownership of the land, is granted to the public or some particular person or part of the public.
FINAL PLAT: A map or chart of a subdivision which meets all of the provisions of this title, is ready for approval by the county commission and subsequent recordation and which has been accurately surveyed and such survey marked on the ground so that streets, alleys, blocks, lots and other division thereof can be identified, and shall be prepared on a reproducible medium of sufficient size for legibility, twenty four inches by thirty six inches (24" x 36").
LOT: A parcel of real property with a separate and distinct number or other designation shown on a plat or a parcel of real property delineated on an approved map of a record of survey, split or subparceling map as filed in the office of the county recorder and intended as a unit for building development or transfer of ownership.
LOT WIDTH: The width of the lot measured along the minimum building setback line.
MAJOR STREET: A street existing or proposed, which serves or is intended to serve as a major trafficway and which is designated on the master street plan as a controlled access highway, major street, parkway or by equivalent terms suitable to identify the street comprising the basic structure of the street plan.
MINOR STREET: A street, existing or proposed, which is supplementary to a collector or major street and of limited continuity, which serves or is intended to serve the local needs of a neighborhood.
NONPUBLIC WATER SYSTEM: Any potable water system that is subject to the rules of the southwest Utah public health department, which is any potable (culinary) water system that is to serve less than fifteen (15) lots or less than twenty five (25) people.
OFFICIAL MAP: Any map adopted by the county commission under the provisions of Utah Code Annotated section 72-5-401(4), as amended.
OWNER: Shall include the plural as well as the singular, and may mean either a natural person, firm, association, partnership, private corporation, or any combination thereof.
PARCEL OF LAND: A contiguous quantity of land, in the possession of, or owned by, or recorded as the property of, the same claimant or person.
PLANNING COMMISSION: The Washington County planning commission, unless another planning commission is specifically named.
PRELIMINARY APPROVAL: An approval, with or without recommended alterations, given to a preliminary plat by the planning commission and provides the necessary authority to proceed with the preparation and presentation of the final plat.
PRELIMINARY PLAT: A map or plan of a proposed land division or subdivision.
PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM: Any potable water system that is subject to the rules of the Utah state department of environmental quality, which is any potable (culinary) water system that is to serve fifteen (15) lots or more, or at least an average of twenty five (25) individuals at least sixty (60) days a year.
PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR: Directs engineering, surveying and public services provided by Washington County from the following departments: planning, geographic information systems, building, roads, and weeds.
STREET FRONTAGE: The distance along on which a property line adjoins a frontage street.
SUBDIVISION: A. The division of land into two (2) or more lots, parcels, sites, units, plots, or other division of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, for offer, sale, lease, or development either on the installment plan or upon any and all other plans, terms, and conditions.
B. Subdivision includes the division or development of land whether by deed, metes and bounds description, devise, and testacy, lease, map, plat, or other recorded instrument.
C. Subdivision does not include:
1. A bona fide division or partition of agricultural land for agricultural purposes if the lot or parcel meets the minimum size requirement of applicable zoning ordinances for agricultural uses;
2. A recorded agreement between owners of adjoining properties adjusting their mutual boundary if:
a. No new lot is created; and
b. The adjustment does not result in a violation of applicable zoning ordinances;
3. A recorded document, executed by the owner of record, revising the legal description of more than one contiguous parcel of property into one legal description encompassing all such parcels of property; or
4. A bona fide division or partition of land on one or more of the resulting separate parcels:
a. An unmanned facility appurtenant to a pipeline owned or operated by a gas corporation, interstate pipeline company, or intrastate pipeline company; or
b. An unmanned telecommunications, microwave, fiber optic, electrical, or other utility service regeneration, transformation, retransmission, or amplification facility.
D. The joining of a subdivided parcel of property to another parcel of property that has not been subdivided does not constitute a "subdivision" as to the unsubdivided parcel of property or subject the undivided parcel to this title.
THROUGH LOT: A lot having a frontage on two (2) dedicated streets and having the right of access to both of said streets, not including corner lots. (Ord., 6-5-2000; amd. 2004 Code; Ord. 2016-1058-O, 4-5-2016)