"Clustering"means a development technique that concentrates buildings in specific areas on a site to allow the remaining land to be used for recreation, common open space, and preservation of environmentally sensitive areas.
"Critical value wildlife habitat"means sensitive use areas necessary to sustain the existence of one or more species of high interest wildlife during critical periods of their life cycles. Examples of critical value habitats are: concentration areas for big game on winter ranges, important movement corridors, breeding and rearing complexes, developed wetlands, and riparian habitats critical to high interest wildlife. High interest wildlife are all game species, any economically important species, and any species of special aesthetic, scientific or educational significance which may include all protected wildlife. Threatened or endangered species are defined separately.
"Development credit"is a potential entitlement to construct one dwelling in a designated cluster area, which can only be exercised when the development credit has been transferred pursuant to the provisions of this chapter from a donor to a receiver parcel and other requirements of law are fulfilled.
"Drainage corridor"means an aboveground swale, gully or impression in the landscape that carries stormwater runoff or spring water.
"Environmental hazard"means any hazard created by a condition of the environment such as fault line, liquefaction, sloped terrain in excess of 30 percent (17 degrees) grade, flood danger, etc., and property which lies within a slope setback.
"Grade"such as a "slope grade" or "grade of terrain" refers to the steepness of the slope or terrain under review. Grade is the relationship of vertical rise to horizontal run, expressed as a percentage from the "toe" to the "top" of a slope. For example, a 50 percent slope has 100 units of vertical rise for 200 units of horizontal distance (vertical/horizontal in this example results in 100/200 which equals 0.50, or 50 percent). A grade described in submittals such as engineers' analyses of a grade may also be described in degrees. A slope grade of 50 percent also features 26.6 degrees of slope.
"Normal high water line"means the water elevation of a drainage occurring as a result of an approximate two-year recurrence interval flow.
"Sensitive areas"are areas of land larger than one-half acre in size which include any one or more of the following features: wetlands, waterways, stream corridors, critical value wildlife habitat, one or more environmental hazards and slopes steeper than 30 percent (17 degrees) grade.
"Slope setback"is the region of terrain which runs from the bottom of the toe of a slope, which is steeper than 30 percent (17 degrees) grade, outward from said toe to a distance which cannot be impacted in a landslide event. Slope setback is also a form of an "environmental hazard" as that term is used in this chapter, unless and until the slope is stabilized in accordance with the findings of an acceptable geotechnical hazard investigation and report.
"Stream corridor"means a drainage that can support a riparian habitat and regulated by the Utah State Engineer's Office, Division of Water Rights and/or the Army Corps of Engineers. The stream corridor also includes an area up to 60 feet beyond the high water line of the river bed.
"Waterway"means the area between the high water mark on either bank.
"Wetland"means an area inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to maintain saturated conditions and to support a prevalence of vegetation. These may be either preexisting natural wetlands (e.g., marshes, swamps, bogs, cypress domes and strands, etc.) or constructed wetland systems.
(Code 1997 § 12-330-010; Ord. 5-19-98-1 § 1 (Exh. A § 12-250-010); amended during 2011 recodification; Ord. 16-28 § 1 (Exh. A))