Chapter 16.90
DEFINITIONS
Sections:
16.90.010 Purpose.
This chapter provides definitions of terms and phrases used in this title that are technical or specialized, or that may not reflect common usage. If any of the definitions in this chapter conflict with definitions in other provisions of the municipal code, these definitions shall control for the purposes of this title. If a word is not defined in this chapter, or other provisions of the municipal code, the director shall determine the most appropriate definition in compliance with Chapter 16.10 (Rules of Interpretation). State law definitions, as they may be amended from time to time, control over the definitions in this section. (Ord. 22-12 § 3 (Exh. A))
16.90.020 Definitions.
“Alley” means a public way for pedestrian, equestrian, or vehicle use which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting properties.
“Approved,” when used to refer to tentative map or other subdivision or reconfiguration action, means having received the consent, endorsement, or permission of the city or any advisory agency and includes those maps or actions which have been conditionally approved.
“Block” means the smallest area of land within a subdivision entirely bounded by any streets (other than alleys), freeways, railroad rights-of-way, natural barriers, or the exterior boundaries of the subdivision.
“CEQA” means the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970 as amended.
“Chief of public utilities” means the person or his/her representative, as designated by the city manager, to discharge for the city those duties prescribed hereinafter to be performed by the chief of public utilities.
“City council” or “council” means the city council of the city of San Jacinto.
“City engineer” means the engineer or his/her representative, as designated by the city manager, to discharge for the city those duties prescribed hereinafter to be performed by the city engineer.
“Commission” means the planning commission of the city of San Jacinto.
“Consistent” means free from variation or contradiction. State law requires consistency between a general plan and implementation measures such as the subdivision ordinance.
“County” means the county of Riverside.
“Cul-de-sac street” means a road open at one end only, with special provisions for turning around, and the further extension of which is precluded by the land division design.
“Department” means the community development department.
“Design” means (1) street alignments, grades, and widths; (2) drainage and sanitary facilities and utilities, including alignments and grades thereof; (3) location and size of all required easements and rights-of-way; (4) fire roads and firebreaks; (5) lot size and configuration; (6) traffic access; (7) grading; (8) land to be dedicated for park or recreational purposes; (9) such other specific physical requirements in the plan and configuration of the entire subdivision as may be necessary to incur consistency with or implementation of the general plan or any applicable specific plan; and (10) the linking of components of the built environment, thereby establishing a sense of order and organization to what otherwise can be perceived as disjointed or haphazard development.
“Development code” means Title 17 of the city of San Jacinto Municipal Code, including all text and maps, as it may be amended from time to time.
“Director” means the person or his/her representative as designated by the city council or city manager to discharge for the city these duties prescribed hereinafter to be performed by the community development director.
“Double frontage lot” means any lot which abuts two or more streets other than a corner lot, which abuts two intersecting streets.
“Fire department” means the Riverside County fire department.
“Frontage street” means a street that is parallel and adjacent to a higher-speed, limited-access road but is separated from it by a physical barrier, and provides access to abutting properties.
“Improvement” means any street work and utilities to be installed, or agreed to be installed, by the subdivider on the land to be used for public or private streets, highways, ways, and easements, as are necessary for the general use of the lot owners in the subdivision and local neighborhood traffic and drainage needs as a condition precedent to the approval and acceptance of the final map. It also means any other specific improvements or types of improvements, the installation of which, either by the subdivider, by public agencies, by private utilities, by any other entity approved by the local agency, or by a combination of them, is necessary to ensure consistency with or implementation of the general plan or any applicable specific plan.
“Lot” means a parcel of real property with a separate and distinct number or other designation shown on an approved map such as a final tract map, parcel map, record of survey, other plot, or described as a separate and distinct lot by a metes and bounds description, which is filed in the office of the county recorder.
“MAI appraiser” means an appraiser that is a member of the Appraisal Institute.
“Net area” excludes area on a lot or lots identified or designated for utilization as dedications and easements for access to, ingress to, or egress from property easements for streets or pedestrian/equestrian purposes irrespective of whether such easements are public or private.
“Parcel map” means a subdivision, generally of four or fewer parcels, prepared in accordance with Section 66444 of the Subdivision Map Act.
“Public improvement” means traffic controls, streets, roads, highways, freeways, bridges, over crossings, street interchanges, transit facilities, trails, flood control or storm drain facilities, sewer and water facilities, and lighting facilities.
“Recorder” means the county of Riverside recorder.
“Reversion to acreage” means a process to combine previously subdivided properties in accordance with the provisions of this title.
“Section” means a section of this title, unless some statute or other ordinance is referred to.
“Subdivider” means a person, firm, corporation, partnership or association who proposes to divide, divides or causes to be divided real property into a subdivision.
“Subdivision Map Act” shall mean Division 2, Title 7 of the California Government Code, commencing with Section 66410 as presently constituted, and any amendments thereto.
“Tenant” means a person or persons entitled under a lease, rental agreement or other agreement with the owner of record of the property or his or her agent to occupy a dwelling unit.
“Tentative map” means a map resulting in five or more parcels prepared in accordance with the provisions of this title and for the purpose of showing the design and improvement of a proposed subdivision and the existing conditions in and around it. It need not be based upon an accurate and detailed final survey of the property.
“Tentative parcel map” means a map resulting in four or fewer parcels prepared in accordance with the provisions of this title and for the purpose of showing the design and improvement of a proposed subdivision and the existing conditions in and around it.
Urban Lot Splits. Urban lot splits, as authorized by Government Code Section 66411.7, are subdivisions subject to this title that shall be more specifically governed as set forth in Article 9 of the development code.
“Vesting” means a right or privilege to enjoy such requirements based on policies, ordinances or standards at a fixed point in time.
“Vesting tentative map” means a tentative map prepared in accordance with the provisions of this title that shall have printed conspicuously on its face the words “Vesting Tentative Map” at the time it is filed.
“Vesting tentative parcel map” means a tentative parcel map prepared in accordance with the provisions of this title that shall have printed conspicuously on its face the words “Vesting Tentative Parcel Map” at the time it is filed. (Ord. 22-12 § 3 (Exh. A))