Marin County Unincorporated

Trash Full Capture System. Any device or series of devices that traps and retains all particles that are five millimeters or greater, and has a design treatment capacity of not less than the peak flow rate resulting from a one-year, one-hour, storm in the tributary drainage catchment area.

Slope. The average slope of a lot expressed as a percent, which is calculated as follows: S = (L × I × 100)/A

Site Assessment. An analysis of the environmental setting of developed or undeveloped land, including, but not limited to, sensitive wildlife habitats and sensitive resources, such as baylands, wetlands, stream and riparian systems, and special-status species and species of concern.

Sensitive Habitat. Stream Conservation Areas and Wetland Conservation Areas. (See Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Area for properties in the coastal zone.)

Septic System. An on-site sewage disposal system consisting of a septic tank, and a soil infiltration leach field, evapotranspiration mound, or other approved disposal facility.

Standard Management Practices. Method or techniques maintained by the Community Development Agency for the protection of hydrological processes, stream and riparian habitat, and water quality to avoid or minimize impacts to salmonids within the Stream Conservation Area within San Geronimo Valley.

Stealth Design. A telecommunications facility that is designed or located in such a way that the facility is not readily recognizable as telecommunications equipment.

Stock Cooperative. A development defined by the Business and Professions Code, Section 11003.2 and the Civil Code, Section 1351.m, where a corporation is formed to hold title to improved real property and the shareholders of the corporation receive a right of exclusive occupancy in a portion of the real property.

Stop Work Order. A notice issued by the Building Official, or other designated official, that directs the property owner to cease work that was undertaken without proper permits.

Storage, Accessory (land use). This land use consists of the storage of various materials in support of a residential, commercial, or industrial land use on the same site, where the primary use of the site is not a storage facility.

Storage, Personal Storage Facility (land use). This land use consists of a structure or group of structures containing generally small, individual, compartmentalized stalls or lockers rented as individual storage spaces and characterized by low parking demand.

Story. That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the next floor above it, or if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it.

Story (floating home). That portion of the superstructure located between the upper surface of any deck and the upper surface of the deck or ceiling next above.

Structural Alterations. Any change in the supporting members of a building, including bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.

Structure. Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires attachment to the ground or attachment to something located on the ground. For the purposes of this Development Code, the term 'structure' includes 'buildings.'

Structure, Primary. A structure in which the principal use of the site is conducted. On sites with multiple structures, the Director shall determine which is the primary structure based on zoning, use, floor area, owner occupancy, etc.

Subdivider. A person, firm, corporation, partnership or association, a governmental agency, public entity or public utility, or the grantor to any such agency, entity, utility or subsidiary, who proposes to subdivide real property for themselves or for others, except employees and consultants of these persons or entities acting in this capacity.

Subdivision. The division, by any subdivider, of any unit or portion of land shown on the latest equalized Marin County assessment roll as a unit or contiguous units, for the purpose of sale, lease or financing, whether immediate or future.

Subdivision Map. A Tentative, Parcel or Final Map, as described in Article VI (Subdivisions).

Subdivision Map Act. Division 2, Title 7 of the California Government Code, commencing with Section 66410 as presently constituted, and any amendments to those provisions.