13-22 GLOSSARY

CHAPTER 13-22
GLOSSARY

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13-22-001-0001 Purpose

The purpose of this glossary is to define words, terms, and phrases within these standards. (Ord. 2017-22, Rep&ReEn, 07/05/2017)

13-22-001-0002 Word Usage

In the interpretation of these standards, the provisions and rules of this section shall be observed and applied, except when the context clearly requires otherwise:

A. Words used or defined in one (1) tense or form shall include other tenses and derivative forms.

B. Words in the singular number shall include the plural number, and words in the plural number shall include the singular number.

C. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, and the feminine gender shall include the masculine.

D. The word "shall" is mandatory.

E. The word "may" is permissive.

F. The word "person" includes individuals, firms, corporations, associations, trusts, and any other similar entities.

G. The word "City" shall mean the City of Flagstaff, Arizona.

H. The word "Council" shall mean the City Council of the City of Flagstaff.

I. In case of any difference of meaning or implication between the text of these standards and any caption, illustration, or table, the text shall control. (Ord. 2017-22, Rep&ReEn, 07/05/2017)

13-22-001-0004 Definitions

When used in these standards, the following terms shall have the meanings herein ascribed to them:

Access. A means of vehicular approach or entry to or exit from property, from a street, or highway.

City. The City of Flagstaff.

City Engineer. The head of the City of Flagstaff Engineering Section or his authorized representative.

City Standards. Title 13, Engineering Design Standards and Specifications for New Infrastructure.

Community Development Director. The Director of Community Development for the City of Flagstaff, Arizona.

Council. The City Council of the City.

Dedication. The transfer of property interests from private to public ownership for a public purpose. The transfer may be of fee simple interest or of a less than fee simple interest, including an easement.

Drainage. The removal of surface water or groundwater from land by pipes, grading, or other means. Drainage includes the control of runoff to minimize erosion and sedimentation during and after development and includes the means necessary for water supply preservation, prevention, or alleviation of flooding.

Drainage Channel. Any depression into which stormwater flows along a defined course.

Drainageway. Watercourses defined by the presence of intermittent or perennial streams or topography which indicates a swale where surface sheet flows join or by physical drainage improvements.

Dry Utilities. Gas, electric, cable, and telephone, in the City’s right-of-way, also known as franchise utilities.

Easement. Authorization by a property owner for the use by another and for a specified purpose of any designated part of his property.

Engineer. Registered professional engineer in the State of Arizona.

Engineering Plans. Maps, plats, profiles, cross-sections and other required details for the construction of public improvements, prepared by a registered engineer in accordance with these standards. These plans are distinguished from the preliminary submittals, which should also be prepared by a registered engineer and other appropriate professionals.

Erosion. The process of removal and transport of soil particles or land surface by the action of wind, water, ice, gravity, or any combination thereof.

Final Plat. A map of a land subdivision prepared in a form suitable for filing a record with necessary affidavits, dedications, and acceptances; and with complete bearings and dimensions of all lines defining lots and blocks, streets and alleys, public areas, and other dimensions.

Flood or Flooding. A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of any land areas from the unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters of any source and/or the overflow of flood waters.

Floodplain. Any normally dry land area that is susceptible to being inundated by water from any source and is the maximum area of land that has a one (1) percent chance of being flooded in any given year. For the purposes of these standards, floodplain areas shall be considered as one (1) of the following two (2) types based upon the adopted City of Flagstaff Zoning Map:

1. Urban Floodplains. Those delineated floodplain areas, which are located in developed urban areas of the City of Flagstaff.

2. Rural Floodplains. Those delineated floodplain areas, which are essentially open space and natural land uses, and are unsuitable for urban development purposes due to poor natural soil conditions and periodic flood inundation.

Horizon Year. (City planning horizon) – The horizon year of the City’s current general plan at the time of the development application, initially the year 2020.

Impervious Surface. Impervious surfaces are those which do not absorb water. They consist of all buildings, parking areas, driveways, roads, sidewalks, and any other areas of concrete or asphalt.

Improvements. All types of roadway construction, street lights, street and traffic signs, sidewalks, pedestrian ways, bicycle ways, water lines, sanitary sewers, storm drainage structures, grading, parking, and other community facilities of like nature.

On-Site Improvements. Improvements made by public or private parties on public or private property that are a condition of development required by the City of Flagstaff or other authority and that require final approval by the City or other authority.

One Hundred (100) Year Flood. A flood event having a one (1) percent chance of occurrence in any given year.

Peak Hour Trip Generation. The greater of the number of trip ends either arriving or departing a site during the highest hour of total trip generation for the site under normal conditions.

Plat. A map of a subdivision.

Preliminary Plat. A map and other submittals, including a site capacity analysis and a map showing resources on the site, as required by the subdivision regulations of the City, of a proposed subdivision showing the character and proposed layout of the tract in sufficient detail to indicate the suitability of the proposed subdivision of land.

Private Improvements. Improvements made by public or private parties on public or private property done under no requirements of the City or other authority, and possibly not requiring a permit.

Public Improvements. Improvements made by public or private parties within public ways or easements that shall, upon acceptance by the City Engineer, become and remain the property of the City of Flagstaff. These improvements are a requirement of development in accordance with City ordinance or voluntary by a private party. These improvements include those off-site improvements defined in the City’s public improvement ordinance.

Public Right-of-Way. Property used to obtain transportational passage for the public with the implied power to permit other persons and public uses to use the right-of-way for public purposes other than transportation, i.e., water, power, drainage and other utilities. (Implies fee simple ownership.)

Public Sanitary Sewer. Includes sanitary sewer systems other than individual on-site systems approved by the State or County and maintained by a public agency authorized to operate such systems.

Public Service Access Easement. An easement that gives public service vehicles, such as Fire and Sanitation, access to private property.

Public Works. Improvements made by a public agency or public utility within public ways or easements that shall, upon acceptance by the City Engineer, remain the property of the City of Flagstaff or the responsible agency or utility. These improvements are not a condition or requirement of development per the public improvements ordinance.

Record Plat. A final plat bearing all the certificates of approval required and recorded in the Coconino County Recorder’s Office.

Sedimentation. The deposition of soil transported from its site of origin by water, ice, wind, gravity, or other means as a result of erosion.

Site Plan. A graphic depiction of features on a site such as existing and proposed structures, paved areas, ingress/egress points, and landscaped areas along with certain information as required in the City zoning code.

Specifications. Title 13, Engineering Design Standards and Specifications for New Infrastructure.

Standards. Title 13, Engineering Design Standards and Specifications for New Infrastructure.

Street. Any existing or proposed public or private street, avenue, boulevard, road, lane, parkway, place, bridge, viaduct or easement for public vehicular access, or a street shown in a plat duly filed and recorded in the County Recorder’s Office. A street includes all land within the street right-of-way, whether improved or unimproved, and includes such improvements as pavement, shoulders, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, parking space, bridges, and viaducts.

Streets:

Arterial. A road that is intended to provide for high-speed travel between or within communities, or to and from collectors. Access is controlled so that only regionally significant land uses may take direct access to these streets. (Arterial classification includes urban, urban commercial, and rural, both major and minor.)

Collector. A road which is intended to connect residential streets to arterial roads or provide access to nonresidential uses and arterial streets. (Collector classification includes urban, urban commercial center, and rural collector, both major and minor.)

Freeway. An arterial road (such as an Interstate Highway) with restricted or limited access.

Local. A road which is intended to provide access to abutting residential properties. (Local classification includes urban commercial, urban residential, urban commercial center, rural, and rural narrow.)

Surveyor. A surveyor who is registered by the Arizona State Board of Technical Registration.

Threshold Level Traffic. One hundred (100) or more peak direction trips to or from the site during either the peak hour of traffic on the adjacent roadway or the peak hour of traffic generation of the site itself.

Transect 1 (T1). Natural Zone consists of lands approximating or reverting to a wilderness condition, including lands unsuitable for settlement due to topography, hydrology or vegetation.

Transect 2 (T2). Rural Zone consists of sparsely settled lands in open or cultivated state. These include woodland, grasslands, parks and open space areas. Typical buildings are farmhouses, agricultural buildings or cabins.

Transect 3 (T3). Sub-Urban Zone consists of low-density residential areas, adjacent to higher density zones that include some mixed use. Home occupations and outbuildings are allowed. Planting is naturalistic and setbacks are relatively deep. Blocks may be large and the roads irregular to accommodate natural conditions.

Transect 4 (T4). General Urban Zone consists of mixed-use but primarily residential urban fabric. It may have a wide range of building types, such as single-family, sideyard buildings, and rowhouses. Setbacks and landscaping are variable. Streets with curbs and sidewalks define medium-sized blocks.

Transect 5 (T5). Urban Center Zone consists of higher density mixed-use buildings that accommodate retail, offices, rowhouses and apartments. It has a tight network of streets and small blocks, with wide sidewalks, regularly spaced street planting, and buildings set close to the sidewalks.

Transect 6 (T6). Urban Core Zone consists of the highest density and height, with the greatest variety of uses, and civic buildings of regional importance. It may have larger blocks, and streets have regularly spaced tree planting with buildings set close to the wide sidewalks. The T6 urban core is typically associated with downtown Flagstaff, thus this transect would not be applied in other locations within the City.

Utilities. Installations or facilities furnishing, for the use of the public: electricity, gas, steam, communication, water, drainage, sewage disposal, or flood control; utilities may be owned and operated by any person, firm, corporation, municipal department/division, or board, duly appointed by State or municipal regulations. Utility or utilities as used herein may also refer to such persons, firms, corporations, department/division, or boards. All utility lines associated with development or redevelopment shall be underground in accordance with the provisions of the City Code.

Watercourse. Any lake, river, creek, stream, wash, arroyo, channel, or other topographic feature on or over which waters flow, at least periodically. (Ord. 2017-22, Rep&ReEn, 07/05/2017)

AASHTO	American Association of State Highways and Transportation Officials
ABC	Aggregate Base Course
AC	Asphaltic Concrete
ADEQ	Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
ADOT	Arizona Department of Transportation
ADT	Average Daily Traffic
A.R.S.	Arizona Revised Statutes
ASTM	American Society of Testing and Materials
AWWA	American Water Works Association
COE	Corps of Engineers
DIP	Ductile Iron Pipe
FEMA	Federal Emergency Management Agency
MAG	Maricopa Association of Governments
MUTCD	Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
OSHA	Occupational Safety and Health Administration
PC	Point of Curvature
PE	Professional Engineer
PI	Point of Intersection
PT	Point of Tangent
PVC	Polyvinyl Chloride
RLS	Registered Land Surveyor
ROW	Right-of-way
SCS	Soil Conservation Service

CHAPTER 13-22GLOSSARY

13-22-001-0001 Purpose

13-22-001-0002 Word Usage

13-22-001-0003 Abbreviations

13-22-001-0004 Definitions

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