See Chapter
17.10 NCC, Definitions.
The following words and phrases, as used throughout city ordinances, shall have the following meanings. Words and phrases not defined in this section or elsewhere in city ordinances (see Chapter
17.10 NCC) shall have the meaning defined in state law. Words and phrases not defined in city ordinances or state law shall have their plain meaning in common usage. As used herein, the following words and phrases shall mean:
"Affected entities"means a county; a municipality; a local district; a special service district under the Utah Special Service District Act; a school district; an interlocal cooperation entity established under the Interlocal Cooperation Act; an electrical, gas, or telephone utility as defined in Section 54-2-1, Utah Code Annotated 1953 (as amended); a property owner; a property owners' association; or the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT), if:
(a) The entity's services or facilities are likely to require expansion or significant modification because of an intended use of land;
(b) The entity has filed with the city a copy of the entity's general or long-range plan; or
(c) The entity has filed with the city a request for notice during the same calendar year and before the city provides required notice to an affected entity.
"Alley"means a public thoroughfare at least 26 feet wide.
"Appeal authority"means the person or persons designated by ordinance enacted by the city to hear land use appeals.
"Applicant"means a person who submits a land use application.
"Association"means the same as that term is defined in Section 57-8a-102, Utah Code Annotated 1953, as amended.
"Block"means a piece of land which is designated or shown as a block on any recorded subdivision plat or official map or plat adopted by the city council.
"City"means Naples City, Utah.
"Common areas"means property that an association owns, maintains, repairs, or administers.
"Condominium"means a multi-unit development in which individual units are separately owned and each owner receives a recordable deed to the unit, together with an undivided interest in any common elements. A condominium development shall be regarded as a subdivision.
"Council"means the city council; the governing/legislative body of Naples City.
"Development"means on land, in or under land or water, the placement or erection of any solid material or structure; construction, reconstruction, demolition, or alteration of the size of any structure, including any facility of any private, public, or municipal utility, trail, or road.
"Easement"means an interest in land owned by another person, consisting in the right to use or control the land, or an area above or below it, for a specific limited purpose (such as to cross it for access to a public road).
"Engineer (city)"means the licensed engineer appointed by the city to be the city engineer, or the engineer appointed for a specific project.
"Facility owner"means, in the context of water conveyance, an individual, entity, mutual water company, or unincorporated organization:
(a) Operating a water conveyance facility;
(b) Owning any interest in a water conveyance facility; or
(c) Having a property interest in real property based on the presence of the water conveyance facility located and operating on the real property.
"Fire authority"means the department, agency, or public entity with responsibility to review and approve the feasibility of fire protection and suppression services for the subject property.
"Half streets"means the portion of a street within a subdivision comprising one-half the minimum required right-of-way on which improvements are constructed and in accord with one-half of an approved typical street cross-section.
"Improved lot"means a lot which has all of the improvements required by this chapter completed.
"Improvement plan"means a plan, complete with civil engineering plans, to complete permanent infrastructure on the subdivision that is essential for the public health and safety, that is required for human occupation, or that is required by applicable law in connection with a subdivision application, and that an applicant must install in accordance with public installation and inspection specifications for public improvements and as a condition of recording a subdivision plat.
"Improvement (required)"means work, objects, devices, facilities, or utilities required to be constructed or installed in a subdivision. Such improvements shall include, but are not limited to, street construction to required standards, grading, landscaping, water facilities, sewer facilities, streets, trees, sidewalks, curbs and gutters, drainage facilities, street signs, street lights, traffic control or other safety devices, fire hydrants, utilities and such other facilities, or construction required by the subdivision ordinance, subdivision regulations, or by the land use authority for the necessary proper development of the proposed subdivision.
"Improvement warranty" (or "warranty")means, in the context of completed improvements, an applicant's unconditional warranty that the applicant's installed and accepted landscaping or infrastructure improvement complies with the city's written standards for design, materials, and workmanship, and will not fail in any material respect, as a result of poor workmanship or materials, within the improvement warranty period.
"Intervening property"means property located between the existing service facility and the property under development.
"Land use application"means an application required by the city and submitted by a land use applicant to obtain a land use approval; this does not mean an application to enact, amend, or repeal a land use regulation.
"Land use authority"means an individual, board, or commission appointed or employed by the city to make land use decisions. "Land use authority" includes any appropriately authorized designees.
"Lot"means a parcel or tract of land which is or may be legally occupied by a building(s).
"Lot line adjustment"means the process of combining two or more lawful existing lots into a fewer number of total lots than existed prior to the boundary line adjustment; or the moving of a boundary line between two or more lots where the total number of lots after the change remains the same.
"Lot right-of-way"means an easement of at least eight feet width, reserved by the lot owner as a private access to serve interior lots not otherwise located on a street.
"Metes and bounds"means the description of a lot or parcel of land by courses and distance.
"Minor subdivision"means a subdivision containing four lots or less with all lots having the required frontage on a dedicated public street and not traversed by a proposed street.
"Official map"means the official map or maps adopted by this city pursuant to the municipal land use and planning enabling legislation.
"Off-site facilities"means facilities designed or located so as to serve other property outside of the boundaries of the subdivision, usually lying between the development and existing facilities.
"Oversized facilities"means facilities with added capacity designed to serve other property, in addition to the land within the boundaries of the subdivision.
"Parcel of land"means a contiguous area of land with a separate or discrete legal description.
"Permanent monument"means any structure of concrete, masonry, and/or metal, permanently placed on, or in, the ground, including those expressly placed for surveying reference.
"Person"means an individual, individuals, tenants in common, joint tenants, a corporation, partnership, firm, limited partnership or association of individuals however styled or designated.
"Plat"means an instrument subdividing property into lots as depicted on a map or other graphic representation of land that a licensed professional land surveyor makes and prepares in accordance with Section 10-9a-603 or 57-8-13, Utah Code Annotated 1953, as amended.
"Protection strip"means a strip of land, of less than the minimum depth required by the land use ordinance for a building lot, which prevents the access of other property owners to the street or utilities.
"Public landscaping improvement"means landscaping that an applicant is required to install to comply with published installation and inspection specifications for public improvements that:
(a) Will be dedicated to and maintained by the city; or
(b) Are associated with and proximate to trail improvements that connect to planned or existing public infrastructure.
"Review cycle,"as used and further defined in NCC §
17.115.100(3), means the occurrence of:
(a) The applicant's submittal of a complete subdivision land use application;
(b) The city's review of that subdivision land use application;
(c) The city's response to that subdivision land use application, in accordance with this section; and
(d) The applicant's reply to the city's response that addresses each of the city's required modifications or requests for additional information.
"Street"means a thoroughfare which has been dedicated and accepted by the city council, which the city has acquired by prescriptive right or which the city owns, or offered for dedication on an approved plat, or a thoroughfare of at least 32 feet in width, which has been abandoned or made public by right of use and which affords access to abutting property, including highways, roads, lanes, avenues, alleys, and boulevards.
"Street, collector"means a street, existing or proposed, which is the main means of access to the major street system. Collector streets are at least 66 feet wide.
"Street, major"means a street, existing or proposed, which serves or is intended to serve as a major traffic way and is designated on the master street plan as a controlled access highway, major street, parkway, collector, arterial or other equivalent term to identify those streets comprising the basic structure of the street plan. Major streets are at least 72 feet wide.
"Street, marginal access"means a minor street which is parallel to and adjacent to a limited access major street and which provides access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
"Street, minor"means a street, existing or proposed, which is supplementary to a collector street, and of limited continuity, which serves, or is intended to serve, the local needs of a neighborhood. Minor streets are at least 60 feet wide.
"Street, private"means a thoroughfare within a subdivision which has been reserved by dedication of the applicant or lot owners to be used as private access to serve the lots platted within the subdivision and complying with the adopted street cross-section standards of this city and maintained by the applicant or other private agency.
"Subdivider"means the person submitting a subdivision application to subdivide land under this chapter.
"Subdivision"means any land that is divided, subdivided, or proposed to be divided into two or more lots 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.
(a) Subdivision includes:
(i) The division or development of land, whether by deed, metes and bounds description, devise and testacy, map, plat, or other recorded instrument, regardless of whether the division includes all or a portion of a parcel or lot; and
(ii) Except as provided below, divisions of land for residential and nonresidential uses, including land used or to be used for commercial, agricultural, and industrial purposes.
(b) Subdivision does not include:
(i) A bona fide division or partition of agricultural land for the purpose of joining one of the resulting separate parcels to a contiguous parcel of unsubdivided agricultural land, if neither the resulting combined parcel nor the parcel remaining from the division or partition violates an applicable land use ordinance;
(ii) A boundary line agreement recorded with the office of the county recorder between owners of adjoining parcels adjusting the mutual boundary in accordance with Section 10-9a-524 Utah State Code Annotated 1953 (as amended) if no new parcel is created;
(iii) A recorded document, executed by the owner of record revising the legal descriptions of multiple parcels into one legal description encompassing all such parcels or joining a lot to a parcel;
(iv) A joining of one or more lots to a parcel;
(v) A road, street, or highway dedication plat; or
(vi) A deed of easement for a road, street, or highway purpose.
"Subdivision plan review"means a review of the applicant's subdivision improvement plans and other aspects of the subdivision application to verify that the application complies with municipal ordinances and applicable installation standards and inspection specifications for infrastructure improvements.
Subdivision Review Committee.A committee that consists of the land use administrator, city engineer, building inspector, a member of the planning commission, and other selected city staff shall serve as members of the SRC.
"Underground facility"means infrastructure or equipment that is buried or placed below ground level for use in the storage or conveyance of any of the following:
(b) Sewage, including sewer laterals;
(c) Communications, including electronic, photonic, telephonic, or telegraphic communications;
(d) Television, cable television, or other telecommunication signals, including transmission to subscribers of video or other programming;
(f) Oil, gas, or other fluid and gaseous substances;
(i) Dangerous materials or products.
"Utilities"includes culinary water lines, pressure and gravity irrigation lines, ditches, sanitary and storm sewer lines, electric power, gas and telephone transmission lines, cable and data transmission lines, underground conduits, and junction boxes.
"Variance"means an authorization by the planning commission, acting as the land use authority pursuant to state law, relative to a specific parcel of land for a modification of a zone's standard height, bulk, area, width, setback, or separation requirement; as distinguished from a conditional use, the allowing of a use not listed as permitted in a zone, or any other change in zoning requirements.
"Vicinity plan"means a map or chart showing the relationship of streets within a proposed subdivision to streets in the surrounding area.
"Water conveyance facility"means a ditch, canal, flume, pipeline, or other watercourse used to convey water used for irrigation or storm water drainage and any related easement for the ditch, canal, flume, pipeline or other watercourse. "Water conveyance facility" does not mean a ditch, canal, flume, pipeline, or other watercourse used to convey water used for culinary or industrial water, or any federal water project facility.
(Ord. 17-197 § 1, 2017; Ord. 18-215, 2018; Ord. 24-258, 2024; LUO § 02-31-002)