§ 42-52. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this division, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Access improvements means improvements designed to ensure safe and adequate ingress and egress.

Accessory building or structure means a detached, subordinate building, the use of which is clearly indicated and related to the use of the principal building or use of the land and which is located on the same lot as the principal building or use.

Applicant means the person who applies for a building permit.

Arterial road means a road which is a main traffic artery carrying relatively high traffic volumes for relatively long distances. This classification includes all roads which function above the level of a collector road.

Average trip length means the average length in miles of external trips, as determined in the Orlando Urban Area Transportation Study 2005, the 1985 Orange County Impact Fee Study and 1990 update thereof, and the 1990 the Winter Garden Municipal Impact Fee Study.

Building permit means an official document or certificate issued by the authority having jurisdiction authorizing the commencement of construction of any building or parts thereof; the term also includes construction plan approval for new mobile home development.

Capacity means the maximum number of vehicles for a given time period which a typical new lane can safely and efficiently carry, usually expressed in terms of vehicles per day. For the purpose of this division, typical new capacity is defined at level of service D and shall mean 7,500 vehicles per day per through lane.

Collector road means a road which carries traffic from local roads to arterial roads. Collector roads have more continuity, carry higher traffic volumes, and may provide less access than local roads.

Development permit includes any building permit, zoning approval, subdivision approval, rezoning, development order, special exception, variance, or any other official action of local government having the effect of permitting the development of land.

Diverted traffic means traffic that is transferred from another transportation route, corridor or mode.

Encumbered means, in reference to funds for capital improvements, funds committed in the capital improvements program for a specified improvement on a specified time schedule.

External trip means any trip which has either its origin or destination at the development site and which impacts the major road network system.

Gross leasable area means the total gross square footage.

Internal trip means a trip which has both its origin and destination within the development site.

Major road network system means all existing and committed arterial and collector roads within the city.

Northern Benefit Area includes all portions of the City of Winter Garden located north of the Florida Turnpike.

Off-site improvements means road improvements located outside of the boundaries of the parcel proposed for a development site which are required by the city in order to serve the development's external trips, but not including access improvements, as defined in this section.

Southern Benefit Area includes all portions of the City of Winter Garden located south of Florida Turnpike.

Square feet, as referred to in the road impact fee schedule in section 42-55, means total gross square footage under a roof.

Traffic-generating development means land development designed or intended to permit a use of the land which will contain more dwelling units or floor space than the then-existing use of land, or to otherwise change the use of the land in a manner that increases the generation of vehicular traffic.

Trip means a one-way movement of vehicular travel from an origin (one trip end) to a destination (the other trip end). For the purposes of this division, the term "trip" shall have the meaning which it has in commonly accepted traffic engineering practice and which is substantially the same as that definition in the previous sentence.

Trip generation means the attraction or production of trips caused by a given type of land development.

(Code 1988, § 11.5-22; Ord. No. 00-38, § I, 6-22-00)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.