APPENDIX B GLOSSARY OF TERMS Section B-2 RIO D’ ORO SPECIFIC PLAN APPENDIX B– Glossary of Terms For the purpose of carrying out the intent of the Rio d’ Oro Specific Plan; words, phrases, and terms shall be deemed to have the meaning ascribed to them in this appendix. In construing the provisions of this Specific Plan, specific provisions shall supersede general provisions relating to the same subject. The word “Board” or “Board of Supervisors” shall mean the Butte County Board of Supervisors which is the governing body of the County. The word “County” shall mean Butte County. The words “Commission” or “Planning Commission” shall mean the Butte County Planning Commission. The word “Director” shall mean the Director of the identified Butte County department, division or agency acting in person or through a subordinate to whom the authority to act has been delegated. The word “shall” is mandatory; the word “may” or “should” is permissive. The word “state” shall mean the State of California. The words “Zoning Code” or “Code” shall mean the Zoning Code of Butte County including all zoning district maps. APPENDIX B: GLOSSARY OF TERMS B-1 Definitions (A) Accent lighting: Directional lighting which highlights an object or attracts attention to a particular area. Alternative energy sources: Energy derived from sources that do not use up natural resources or harm the environment. Alternative modes of transportation: Bicycling, buses, walking, skating, and carpooling or vanpooling, as well as telecommuting, can reduce traffic congestion and provide benefits to individuals and to the community. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Federal legislation that outlines the technical requirements are to be applied during the design, construction, and alteration of buildings and facilities to provide full accessibility to buildings and facilities by individuals with disabilities. Annexation: A change in existing community boundaries resulting from the incorporation of additional land. Apartment: See “dwelling, multi-family.” Architectural features: Towers, gables, spires, chimneys, flagpoles and other architectural elements that are not habitable structures. Articulation: A method of styling the joints in the formal elements of architectural design. Arroyo: A deep gully cut by an intermittent stream; a dry gulch. Arterial: A moderate or high-capacity roadway which is immediately below a highway level of service. Attached buildings and structures: Two (2) or more buildings or structures that are physically connected with a wall, roof, deck, floor, bearing or support structures, trellises, architectural features or any other structure, fixture or device that exceeds thirty (30) inches in height above the finished grade. Attenuation of noise: An act of reducing in force, value, amount, or degree of undesirable noise level. Authenticity materials: Construction materials that provide the quality or condition of being authentic, trustworthy, or genuine, to the local tradition. B-2 RIO D’ ORO SPECIFIC PLAN Definitions (B) Balanced land uses: A practice of adequate distribution of land use decision that can ensure long-term economic stability. Bedroom: Any habitable room other than kitchen, bathroom, dining room or living room. Berm: For screening purposes, any strip of ground at the summit or sides, or along the base, of a slope. Bio-filtration garden: A landscape feature that provides a pollution control technique using living material to capture and biologically degrade process pollutants. Also known as constructed wetland. Building: A structure having a roof supported by columns or walls. Building height: The vertical distance measured from the ground level at finish grade at the primary entry to the top of the building, not including architectural features. Building line: An imaginary line on a building site specifying the closest point from an ultimate right-of-way line or a property line where a main building may be located. Building orientation: Refers to the placement of buildings on lots, in respect to streets and the environment. For example, in general buildings are perpendicular or radian on the street, regardless of the shape of the lot. Building parcel: A parcel or contiguous parcels of land that was established in compliance with the building site requirements of the Zoning Code. Building parcel area: The total area, measured horizontally as a level plane, of the land within the boundaries of a building parcel, not including any public street, right-of-way or pedestrian or vehicular easement and not including any portion that does not meet applicable County regulations when a building site is divided by such an easement. Building parcel coverage: The area of the land within the perimeter of all structures located on the building site (not including the area under unenclosed eaves and unenclosed post-supported overhangs, patios, courtyards, arcades and swimming pools) and including covered off-street parking facilities divided by building site area. Buffer Zone: A strip of land zoned to protect one type of land use from another. APPENDIX B: GLOSSARY OF TERMS B-3 Definitions (C) Carport: A roofed structure, or a portion of a building that is open on two (2) or more sides, for the parking of automobiles belonging to occupants of the property. Check dam: An artificial barrier constructed across a waterway to control the flow or raise the level of water. CEQA: California Environmental Quality Act. Enacted in 1970 and amended through 1983, established state policy to require that all private and public projects be reviewed prior to approval for their potential adverse effects upon the environment. Collector: Intermediate roadways designed to handle traffic between arterial streets and local streets. Community icon: The focus and symbol of the community. Commercial: Businesses operated or conducted on a frequent basis for the purpose of financial gain. Commercial mixed-use: See “Mixed-use, commercial.” Commercial recreation: Any use or activity where the primary intent is to provide amusement, entertainment or sport but which is operated for financial gain. It includes establishments where food and beverages are sold as a secondary or ancillary use, but does not include restaurants, nightclubs, or cocktail lounges. Community facility: A non-commercial use established primarily for the benefit or enjoyment of the population of the community in which it is located including schools, churches, community clubs, shared recreation facilities, parks and trails. Condominium: An estate consisting of an undivided interest in common in a parcel of real property together with a separate interest in space in a residential, industrial or commercial building on such real property, such as an office, store or multi-family dwelling. A condominium may also include a separate interest in other portions of such real property. Connector: Low volume streets providing access off of collectors into residential neighborhoods. Cookie cutter: Housing development in which multiple identical or nearly-identical homes are built to create a community. Cul-de-sac: A street that terminates in a permanent turn around and which design is not intended to continue beyond its terminal point. Cut and fill slopes: System of bench construction on hill slopes to produce road rights-of-way and landings whereby convex slopes are excavated and concave slopes (gullies) are filled; also, excavation of the upslope side of the right-of-way, and fill on the down slope side. B-4 RIO D’ ORO SPECIFIC PLAN Definitions (C) Conventional single-family dwelling unit: A residential unit with street-front orientation detached from other dwelling units and situated on a lot of record. Corner lots: A lot located with frontage on two or more streets. Corridor Neighborhoods: Neighborhoods organized primarily around the arroyo or other major linear open space and drainage corridors. Corridors: Internal connectors of neighborhoods and districts using elements such as iconic boulevards and pedestrian paseos as a means of special vehicular and/or pedestrian linkages within the Project. APPENDIX B: GLOSSARY OF TERMS B-5 Definitions (D) Defensible space: The landscape areas between house and lot line where optimum fire-resistant design features and maintenance procedures are followed. Density: The average number of families, persons or housing units per unit of land. a. Gross density: The number of dwelling units per gross acre (see definition of “gross acres”). b. Net density: The number of dwelling units per net acre (see definition of “net acres”). c. Adjusted gross density: The number of acres remaining after subtracting the acres of surrounding parks and recreation, open space and agriculture, roads, community infrastructure and non-residential uses. Detached buildings and structures: Two (2) or more buildings or structures that are each structurally independent and freestanding and not connected by walls, roofs, floors, decks, supports, trellises, architectural features or any other structure, fixture or device that exceeds thirty (30) inches in height above the finished grade. Development: Residential, commercial, industrial, community facility or other construction, including necessary grading, together with the land upon which the buildings or structures are constructed. Development Standards: A detailed design regulation provides setback, height, building coverage and other development requirement typically found in zoning code. Drive apron: The privately owned paved area between an alley or