(1) “Access” means the right to ingress and egress from a public road vested in the owner or lessee of the land which adjoins a road or other highway.

(2) “Administrator” means the public works director or his designee.

(3) “Applicant” means the owner of the land proposed to be subdivided, or his representative.

(4) “Arterial” means a road intended for high volumes of traffic and providing connections with major state and interstate roadways. An arterial is not intended to be a residential street, but has high potential for the location of significant community facilities as well as retail, commercial, and industrial facilities.

(5) “Block” means a parcel of land bounded by streets, railroad right-of-way, waterways, parks, unsubdivided acreage or a combination thereof.

(6) “Board” means the town council.

(7) “Bond” means any form of security, including a cash deposit, surety bond, collateral, property, or instrument of credit in an amount and form satisfactory to the council, to cover the cost(s) including inflationary costs of constructing or installing any improvements required.

(8) “Building site” means a parcel of land occupied or intended to be occupied by one main building and its accessory buildings, together with all other required yards, open space and setbacks.

(9) “Collector” means a road intended to move traffic from local roads to arterials.

(10) “Commission” means the town of Cathlamet planning commission.

(11) “Comprehensive plan” means a coordinated plan for the physical development of the town; designating, among other things, elements and programs to encourage the appropriate use of the land to lessen congestion throughout the county in the interest of public health, safety and welfare and promote efficiency and economy.

(12) “County” means Wahkiakum County, Washington.

(13) “Day” means day(s) that the office of the administrator is open for business, unless otherwise specified.

(14) “Dedication” means the deliberate appropriation of land by an owner for any general or public uses reserving to himself no other rights than such as are compatible with the full exercise and enjoyment of the public uses to which the property has been devoted.

(15) “Department” means the public works department.

(16) “Development” means any human-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to clearing, grubbing, grading, construction, fill, excavation, placement of buildings, or other similar improvements.

(17) “Difficult development land” means land which the administrator has found to be environmentally sensitive or unsuitable for subdivision due to the flooding, poor drainage, steep slopes, slide areas or potential slide areas, rock and soil formations, or other features likely to be harmful to the safety and general health of the future residents and adjacent landowners.

(18) “Divisions of land” means any conveyance not otherwise exempt or provided for in this chapter which alters the legal description of any lot or parcel.

(19) “Easement” means a written grant by property owner to specific individuals, corporations or to the public or its agencies to use his land for specific purposes.

(20) “Engineer” means the public works director or his designee.

(21) “Frontage” means the property line on the fronting street or extent of property along a road or street.

(22) “Homeowners’ association” means the grouping or uniting of persons residing within a defined area into an incorporated entity to provide for the operation, maintenance and protection of a common enterprise.

(23) “Improvement” means any structure or works including but not necessarily limited to: roads, storm drainage systems, ditches and dikes, sanitary sewerage facilities, storm drainage containment facilities and water systems.

(24) “Land surveyor” shall be as defined by the Engineers and Land Surveyors Act.

(25) “Lot” means a fractional part of subdivided lands having fixed boundaries, and being of sufficient area and dimensions to meet current minimum zoning and comprehensive plan requirements for width and area. The term shall include tracts, parcels or sites.

(26) “Master plan” means the map, sketch or other presentation showing the ultimate development pattern of a parcel of property that is to be developed in successive stages or subdivisions.

(26.1) “Open record hearing” means a hearing conducted by a single hearing body or officer authorized by the town to conduct such hearings, that creates the town’s record through testimony and submission of evidence and information.

(27) “Owner” means any person who has property rights as a fee owner, contract purchaser or mortgagee, or who controls a deed of trust as beneficiary or grantor if such interest controls disposition of property.

(28) “Person” means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, unincorporated organization, trust or any other legal or commercial entity, including a joint venture. The word “person” shall also include a municipality, county or state agency.

(29) Plat, Final. “Final plat” means an accurate map or representation of the subdivision showing lots, blocks, streets, alleys and other divisions and dedications prepared for filing for record with the county auditor.

(30) Plat, Preliminary. “Preliminary plat” means a neat and approximate drawing of the proposed layout of streets, blocks, lots and other elements of the plat or subdivision which shall furnish a basis for the planning commission’s approval or disapproval of the general layout of the plat or subdivision.

(31) “Protective covenants” means an agreement which binds a landowner and his successors in interest to do or refrain from doing certain acts with relation to the property which is the subject of such agreement.

(32) “Public water system” means any system of water supply intended or used for human consumption or other domestic uses, including source, treatment, storage, transmission and distribution facilities, when water is furnished to any community, collection, or number of individuals, or is made available to the public for human consumption, or domestic use, excluding water systems serving one single-family residence.

(33) “Resubdivision” means the amendment of the boundaries or size of, or the creation of, additional lots in any lot previously recorded in a plat in the office of the county auditor.

(34) “Right-of-way” is a general term denoting land, property or interest therein, usually reserved for transportation, or utility purposes.

(35) “Road” means the improved and maintained portion of a right-of-way which provides vehicular circulation or principal means of access to abutting properties.

(36) Road, Private. “Private road” means a roadway intended for the use of one or more private individuals and developed and maintained by private individuals who benefit from its construction.

(37) Road, Public. “Public road” means a highway or roadway established and adopted by the proper authorities for the uses of the general public and over which every person has a right to pass and use for all purposes of travel or transportation for which it is adopted and developed.

(38) “Street” means a road of usually limited continuity which serves primarily to provide access to abutting property.

(39) “State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA)” means Chapter 43.21C RCW or as hereafter amended.

(40) “Subdivider” means any person, firm or corporation undertaking the subdividing or resubdividing of any parcel of land.

(41) “Subdivision” means a division of land into five or more lots, tracts, parcels, sites or divisions for the purpose of sale or lease or transfer of ownership, and shall include all resubdivision of land.

(42) “Urban subdivision” means any subdivision located in those areas designated in the comprehensive plan and zoning code as urban, suburban, multiple-family or commercial. (Ord. 484, 2006)