§ 16.72.030 — Definitions

16.72.030 - Definitions.

As used in this ordinance, the following terms shall have the following meanings: Certificate of Occupancy means a certificate of occupancy issued by the City in accordance with all applicable ordinances, regulations, and rules of the City and state law. Credit means a credit allowed pursuant to this ordinance, which may be applied against the development impact fee paid. Development project or project means any project undertaken for the purpose of development pursuant to the issuance of a building permit by the City pursuant to all applicable ordinances, regulations, and rules of the City and state law. Final inspection means a final inspection of a project as defined by the building codes of the City. Gross acreage means the total property area as shown on a land division map of record, or described through a recorded legal description of the property. This area shall be bounded by road right-of-way and/or legal property lines. Local Development Mitigation Fee or Fee means the development impact fee imposed pursuant to the provisions of this ordinance. Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan or MSHCP means the Western Riverside County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan, adopted by the City Council on September 23, 2003. MSHCP Conservation Area has the same meaning and intent as such term is defined and utilized in the MSHCP. Ordinance means this Ordinance No. 6709 of the City of Riverside, California. Private university project means a development project by a post secondary educational institution accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), with a minimum campus size of 75 acres, located within the City of Riverside, for any project built on university owned land, sponsored or co-sponsored by the university and the planned use of the project is solely for the delivery of university services, including classrooms and other teaching facilities, student housing, student dining facilities and faculty and administrative and university administrative offices, gymnasiums or athletic facilities and performing arts venues. Project area means the area, measured in acres, from the adjacent road right-of-way line to the limits of project improvements. Project Area includes all project improvements and areas that are disturbed as a result of the project improvements on an owner's gross acreage, including all areas depicted on the forms required to be submitted to the City pursuant to this ordinance and/or other applicable development ordinance or regulation of the City. Except as otherwise provided herein, the project area is the area upon which the project will be assessed the Local Development Mitigation Fee. Residential unit means a building or portion thereof used by one family and containing but one kitchen, which unit is designed or occupied for residential purposes, including single-family, multiple-family dwellings, and mobile homes on a permanent foundations, but not including hotels and motels. Revenue or revenues means any funds received by the City pursuant to the provisions of this ordinance for the purpose of defraying all or a portion of the cost of acquiring and preserving vegetation communities and natural areas within the City and the region which are known to support threatened, endangered or key sensitive populations of plant and wildlife species. Western Riverside County Regional Conservation Authority means the governing body established pursuant to the MSHCP that is delegated the authority to oversee and implement the provisions of the MSHCP.

(Ord. 6709 §1, 2003)