808-02 Amend LDC Chapter 1 re. Definitions

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coordinated effort of city and • Xeriscaping: A set of garden c' • Traffic calming: Reducing countyofficials. ,. design and landscape motorist speed,decreasing motor maintenance principles that vehicle volumes,and increasing • Urban growth boundary(UGB): ? promote good horticultural safety for pedestrians and The boundary or line marking the practices and efficient use of nonmotorized vehicles. limit between the urban growth • water. The term xeriscape is a areas and other areas such as " registered trademark of the • Traffic impact analysis: An rural and resource areas where a o": National Xeriscape Council and analysis of the effect of traffic urban growth is not encouraged, means water-conserving, generated by a development on as designated by the county in », drought-tolerant landscaping. the capacity,operations,and consultation with cities,under the r..) _ Landscaping characterized by the safety of the public street and requirements of the GMA. r-; use of vegetation that is drought- highway system. tolerant or a low water use in • Use,permitted: A use permitted 7.1 character. • Transfer of development rights in a district without the need for Cni (TDR): The conveyance of special administrative review and • Zero lot line: A planned development rights by deed, approval,upon satisfaction of the ` arrangement of buildings which easement or other legal standards and requirements of touch lot lines,thereby providing instrument authorized by local this ordinance. Any use listed as zero yard on that side. law to another parcel of land and a principal permitted use or as an the recordation of that accessory use. The term further • Zoning: The division of a city or conveyance among the land includes a conditional use,as county by legislative regulations records of(the municipality). listed for the particular district, into areas,or zones,which provided a conditional use permit specify allowable uses for real • Transfer of development rights is obtained. property and size restrictions for (TDR),receiving area: The area buildings within these areas. within which development rights • Vacation: The termination of,or Also,a program that implements transferred from a TDR sending termination of interest in,an policies of the General Plan. area can be used. easement,right-of-way,or public dedication of land. • Transfer of development rights (TDR),sending area: The area • Variance: A departure from any from which TDRs can beprovision of the zoning transferred. requirements for a specific parcel,except use,without • Tree bank: A fund established changing the zoning ordinance or by a city to provide an opportunity the underlying zoning of the to make a cash payment to the parcel. A variance usually is city in lieu of providing required granted only upon demonstration landscape stock on a site. of hardship based on the peculiarity of the property in • Trip End: The origin or relation to other properties in the destination of a trip. Each trip same zone district. has two ends which constitute a two-direction vehicle movement • Volume-to-capacity ratio: A at the origin or destination of the measure of the operating trip. capacity of a roadway or intersection,in terms of the • Trip Generation Rate: The total number of vehicles passing number of trip ends produced by through,divided by the number of a specific land use or activity per vehicles that theoretically could day. pass through when the roadway or intersection is operating at its • Triplex: A building containing designed capacity. Abbreviated three individual dwellings. as"v/c". At a v/c ratio of 1.0,the Accessory dwelling units are not roadway or intersection is included in this definition. operating at capacity. If the ratio is less than 1.0,the traffic facility • Urban design: The attempt to has additional capacity. Although give form,in terms of both beauty ratios slightly greater than 1.0 are and function,to selected urban possible,it is more likely that the • areas or to whole cities. Urban peak hour will elongate into a design is concerned with the "peak period". location,mass,and design of various urban components and • Wetland: Those areas that are combines elements of urban inundated and saturated by planning,architecture,and surface or groundwater at a landscape architecture. frequency and duration sufficient to support,and that under normal • Urban fringe: Land at the edge circumstances,do support a of an urban area usually made up prevalence of vegetation typically of mixed agricultural and urban adapted for life in saturated soil land uses. This is probably the conditions,including swamps, most critical area within an urban marshes,bogs,and similar area and requires adequate areas. controls wisely administered by a 20