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Access and utility tract shall mean a tract of land a minimum of sixty (60) feet in width which is owned by all lot owners within the subdivision with each lot owner having an undivided interest in the access and utility tract. The purpose of the access and utility tract is to provide access to all lots within the subdivision and the access and utility tract shall carry an express easement which inures to the benefit of any public or private utility company

ACOE  Army Corps of Engineers

Address  A number and street or road name currently assigned to a parcel of property according to the county's street and road naming and addressing ordinance

Alleys are minor ways which are used primarily for vehicular service access to the back side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.

Aquifer  A groundwater-bearing geologic formation, or formations, that contain enough saturated permeable material to yield significant quantities of water

Arterial streets and highways primarily facilitate the through movement, i.e. mobility, of vehicular traffic. Access management techniques are commonly instituted on them to preserve the facilities' capacity. Land access is a secondary priority to the movement of traffic.

Available capacity review  A preliminary review conducted by the county to determine if an application for a rezoning or special exception is consistent with the comprehensive plan. Adequate public facilities for potable water, sewage treatment, drainage, solid waste, recreation and transportation must be available in order to deem the request consistent with the county comprehensive plan

BACS  Bay Area Commuter Service

BCC  Board of County Commissioners of Hernando County

Bond means a surety bond or such other collateral security as may be mutually agreed upon from time to time between the board of county commissioners and a developer.

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Bottle Club "bottle club" is defined as any clubroom or premises where any alcoholic beverage is brought for consumption on the premises by members of the public or of any club, corporation or association. (ch:4 art:1 sec: 4-3 )

BPAC  Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee

Building setback line is a line within a lot or other parcel of land so designated on the plat of the proposed subdivision, between which and the adjacent boundary of the street upon which the lot abuts the erection of an enclosed structure or portion thereof is prohibited.

CAC  Citizens Advisory Committee

Canopy roads. Roads, whether rural or urban, that are characterized by rows of trees bordering both sides of the road corridor of sufficient height, density and crown spread to create natural canopy coverage over the road corridor and that preserve and maintain the historic, natural beauty and ambience of Hernando County, Florida

CARL  Conservation and Recreational Lands

Census - An enumeration/count of the population; done every ten years according to U.S. law.  The U.S. Census plays an important part in the planning process. Knowing how many people reside in various sections throughout the county now, and being able to estimate/predict accurately how many people will be in the county in the future, is essential to the planning process.

Certificate of concurrency  The certificate issued by the county upon finding that an application for a development permit meets the standards set forth in the county comprehensive plan for public facilities and services.

Certificate of use  A certificate, required by appropriate authority under the provisions of this ordinance, which authorizes the occupancy of a structure or premises and is required prior to occupancy, change of use and under other specific conditions.

Class A Subdivisions are formal subdivisions which must meet the formalized platting procedures .. The following constitute Class A subdivisions: (1) A subdivision created with fifty (50) lots or more is a Class A subdivision and must follow the existing rules for a formalized, platted subdivision. (2) A subdivision which has improvements which are dedicated to the public is a Class A subdivision and must follow the existing rules for a formalized, platted subdivision 3) A subdivision created with lots less than two and one-half (21/2) acres in size, other than a simple lot split is a Class A subdivision and must follow the existing rules for a formalized, platted subdivision.

Class B Subdivisions  are rural subdivisions which are exempt from the formalized platting procedures. These subdivisions shall be approved for development by the county staff. The following constitute Class B subdivisions: A subdivision of a parcel into more than ten (10) lots but less than fifty (50) lots in an agricultural, agricultural-residential, or residential zoning category with a minimum lot size of two and one-half (21/2) acres is a Class B subdivision. All of the following criteria must be met for the staff to approve the subdivision: (1) Access to the subdivision shall be via a minimum thirty-foot county-maintained and -owned right-of-way. (2) Right-of-way permits shall be obtained prior to approval of the subdivision.  (3) The minimum access within the subdivision shall be: a. A sixty-foot access and utility tract with a cleared and maintained right-of-way width of thirty (30) feet. When any portion of the access and utility tract will serve more than ten (10) lots in the development, it shall be improved with the following minimum standards: a compacted lime rock travel surface, or other surface acceptable to the county engineer, eighteen (18) feet in width, and four (4) inches thick. When ten (10) lots or fewer in the development will have access onto the access and utility tract, it shall be improved with the following minimum standards: a compacted lime rock travel surface, or other surface acceptable to the county engineer, twelve (12) feet in width, and four (4) inches thick. b. The access and utility tract shall meet the following minimum standards: a 95-foot radius to provide a 20-mph horizontal curve design speed, and vertical curves designed to meet a 30-mph site distance. They shall have intersection angles at no less than seventy (70) degrees. c. Culverts and bridges must meet the minimum standards in the Facility Design Guidelines and Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) requirements. (4) Each lot must meet all applicable county development rules and be approved by the county. No building permit for any such lot created according to this exemption from the formalized subdivision platting process shall be granted unless lot approval has been granted by the county. (5) Each sales contract, option, deed or conveyance entered into and executed after adoption of these regulations shall contain a legend setting forth in bold type a statement that "subject land is contained within a subdivision which has not been formally platted and approved by the Board of County Commissioners of Hernando County and said county has absolutely no authority to maintain or improve streets, thoroughfares or easements within the subdivision." (6) The county's minimum design standards for drainage shall be met. (7) The developer must provide a letter from the franchised garbage hauler that the design of the subdivision is acceptable for individual garbage pickup by the hauler or a buffered dumpster site shall be provided within the subdivision by the developer. (8) The developer must provide a letter from the United States Post Office indicating that the design of the subdivision is acceptable for individual mail delivery and pickup by the Post Office rural carrier or a neighborhood mail site shall be provided within the subdivision by the developer acceptable to the Post Office.

Class C Subdivisions are small rural subdivisions which are exempt from the formalized platting procedures . Class C subdivisions shall be approved for development by the county staff. The following constitute class C subdivisions: A subdivision of a parcel into more than two (2) lots but no more than ten (10) lots in an agricultural, agricultural-residential, or residential zoning category with a minimum lot size of two and one-half (21/2) acres is a Class C subdivision. The following criteria must be met for the staff to approve the Class C subdivision: (1) The minimum access to a Class C subdivision is via a thirty- foot county-maintained and -owned right-of-way. (2) Right-of-way permits from the county shall be obtained prior to approval of the subdivision. (3) The minimum access within the Class C subdivision shall be: a. A sixty-foot access and utility tract with a cleared and maintained right-of-way width of thirty (30) feet improved to the following minimum standards: a compacted lime rock travel surface, or other surface acceptable to the county engineer, twelve (12) feet in width, and four (4) inches thick. b. The access and utility tract shall meet the following minimum standards: a 95-foot radius to provide a 20-mph horizontal curve design speed, and vertical curves designed to meet a 30-mph site distance. They shall have intersection angles at no less than seventy (70) degrees. c. Culverts and bridges must meet the minimum standards in the Facility Design Guidelines and Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) requirements. (4) Each lot must meet all applicable county development rules and be approved by the county. No building permit for any such lot created according to this exemption from the formalized subdivision platting process shall be granted unless lot approval has been granted by the county. (5) Each sales contract, option, deed or conveyance entered into and executed after adoption of these regulations shall contain a legend setting forth in bold type a statement that "subject land is contained within a subdivision which has not been formally platted and approved by the Board of County Commissioners of Hernando County and said county has absolutely no authority to maintain or improve streets, thoroughfares or easements within the subdivision." (6) The county's minimum design standards for drainage shall be met. (7) The developer must provide a letter from the franchised garbage hauler that the design of the subdivision is acceptable for individual garbage pickup by the hauler or a buffered dumpster site shall be provided within the subdivision by the developer. (8) The developer must provide a letter from the United States Post Office indicating that the design of the subdivision is acceptable for individual mail delivery and pickup by the Post Office rural carrier or a neighborhood mail site shall be provided within the subdivision by the developer acceptable to the Post Office

Class D Subdivisions are simple parcel splits which allow a parcel to be split into two (2) lots. Class D subdivisions are exempt from the formalized platting procedures and shall be approved for development by the county staff if they meet all of the following standards: (1) Applicants must receive driveway location approval by the department of public works prior to approval of the subdivision. (2) a. Class D subdivisions created in a residential, agricultural-residential, or rural zoning districts shall meet one of the following: i. Each lot must be created from a parent parcel and each lot must have frontage on an existing county maintained street or private street built and maintained to county standards. ii. One lot created from the parent parcel must front on an existing county-maintained street or private street built to county standards and the other lot created from the parent parcel must be provided access to the county-maintained street or private street built and maintained to county standards by an access and utility easement created for the purpose of providing access to all lots within the subdivision and shall be an express easement which inures to the benefit of any public or private utility company allowing for the placement of utilities within the easement. The minimum easement width is fifteen (15) feet. The access and utility easement created to comply with this section of the regulations shall be clear and passable by automobile traffic prior to the approval of the lot split.  b. Lots created in the industrial or commercial districts shall meet the following: i. Each lot must be created from a parent parcel with frontage on an existing county maintained street or private street built and maintained to county standards. (3) Each lot must meet all applicable county development rules and be approved by the county. No building permit for any such lot created according to this exemption from the formalized subdivision platting process shall be granted unless lot approval has been granted by the county. (4) Each sales contract, option or deed of conveyance entered into and executed after adoption of these regulations shall contain a legend setting forth in bold type a statement that "subject land is contained within a subdivision which has not been formally platted and approved by the Board of County Commissioners of Hernando County and said county has absolutely no authority to maintain easements within the subdivision." 

CLB  Contractor Licensing Board

Collector streets function primarily to carry traffic from local streets to arterials. The operating speeds are generally lower than that of arterials and provide a greater degree of land access.

Community public water supplies  As defined in 17-550, Florida Administrative Code, a community public water supply is a public water supply which serves at least fifteen (15) service connections used by year-round residents or regularly serves at least twenty-five (25) year-round residents

COMP PLAN   Comprehensive Plan

Comprehensive plan shall mean a comprehensive plan prepared or adopted by Hernando County pursuant to chapter 163, Florida Statutes, or any amendment to parts thereof, which indicates the general locations recommended for various functional classes of public works, places, uses, structures, streets and facilities for the purpose of the general development of the county, and includes any unit or part of such plans separately adopted and any amendment to such plans or parts thereof.

Concurrency Coordination - Concurrency Coordination is the process where new projects are reviewed ensuring that sufficient capacity exists in public facilities prior to the issuance of development orders for new growth. A concurrency certificate is issued after review is completed and the project meets requirements. A concurrency determination shall be made for the following public facilities/services: (1) Potable water.(2) Sewage treatment.(3) Drainage.(4) Solid waste disposal.(5) Parks.(6) Transportation.

Concurrency management system  The procedures and/or process that the local government will utilize to assure that development orders and permits are not issued unless the necessary facilities and services are available concurrent with the impacts of development.

Conditional Use - A Conditional Use Permit (CUP) allows a city or county to consider special uses which may be essential or desirable to a particular community, but which are not allowed as a matter of right within a zoning district, through a public hearing process. A conditional use permit can provide flexibility within a zoning ordinance. Another traditional purpose of the conditional use permit is to enable a municipality to control certain uses which could have detrimental effects on the community.

Cul-de-sac shall mean a minor street with one ingress and egress and with a turning area at the closed end.

CUP Conditional Use Permit

CUTR  Center for Urban Transportation Research  (University of South Florida)

DCA   Florida Department of Community Affairs

DEP   Florida Department of Environmental Protection

Development  The carrying out of any building activity, the making of any material change in the use or appearance of any structure or land, or the dividing of land into two (2) or more parcels.

Developer The person or entity responsible for increasing the traffic demand upon the arterial system by either building a new building, expanding the capacity of an existing building, changing of the approved use, or subdividing real property to create additional building lots. Development shall be considered to have occurred when any of the above activities have been accomplished with a projected subsequent average daily traffic increase of more than ten (10) average daily traffic counts (ADT) derived from the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Trip Generation Manual, Third Edition (as amended).

DHR   Florida Division of Historical Resources

DO   Development Order

DOF   Florida Division of Forestry

DOPA   Designated Official Planning Agency

DOT or FDOT Florida Department of Transportation

DPW Department of Public Works

Easement is a legally defined right of passage or use across a specified property. An easement may allow for access, placement of utilities, drainage, other purposes or any combination of these uses.

EPA   U. S. Environmental Protection Agency

Equivalent residential unit (ERU)  The numerical value associated with the average household size of single-family dwelling units.

ESLC   Environmentally Sensitive Lands Committee

FCT  Florida Communities Trust

FGFWFC   Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission

FLDA   Florida Department of Agriculture

FLDF or DOF . .Florida Department of Forestry

FLPMA   Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976

FNAI   Florida Natural Areas Inventory

Frontage roads are minor streets which run concurrent with arterial streets and highways and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic. A frontage road may be developed along the property frontage or to the rear of the property (reverse frontage road).

Frontage road link  A length of frontage road approximating an optimum design distance of one thousand three hundred twenty (1,320) linear feet. In cases where existing streets intersect the frontage road area, the link may be significantly less than one thousand three hundred twenty (1,320) linear feet.

Frontage road segment  A length of frontage road running concurrent to the right-of-way of the arterial highway from property line to property line of any given property owner along the arterial highway. A frontage road segment may or may not constitute a link or links.

FSUTMS  Florida Standard Urban Transportation Model Structure

FTC   Florida Transportation Commission

GTAC  Groundwater Technical Advisory Committee

HCUD  Hernando County Utilities Department

Infrastructure. Facilities and services needed to sustain industrial, residential and commercial activities. "Infrastructure" includes, but is not limited to, water and sewer, streets, street signage, drainage and other public facilities.

LCB    Local Coordinating Board (Transportation Disadvantaged)

LDRC Hernando County Land Development Regulation Commission

Local Planning Agency - the seven (7) members of the LPA are the five (5) members  and two (2) alternate members of the Hernando County Planning and Zoning Commission.

Local streets are those which are used primarily for access to the abutting properties.

Lot of record. A lot which is duly recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court

LPA   Hernando County Local Planning Agency

LRTP   Long Range Transportation Planning

MPO   Metropolitan Planning Organization

MPOAC  Metropolitan Planning Organization Chairmen's Advisory Committee

MPO-CCC   Metropolitan Planning Organization Chairmen's Coordinating Committee

MSBU  Municipal Service Benefit Unit

NEPA   National Environmental Policy Act of 1969

NHPA   National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (as amended through 1992)

NWFWMD  Northwest Florida Water Management District

Ordinance Drafting/ Modification - Establishing that a need exists for a change in the Municipal code and drafting the appropriate guidelines for submission to the Board of County Commissioners for approval.

P&Z  Hernando County Planning and Zoning Commission

Parcel. A continuous quantity of land in the possession of or owned by or recorded as the property of the same person or persons. A parcel may consist of contiguous platted lots.

Parent tract is a lot, tract or parcel of record legally existing and developable as of June 13, 1991.

Planned-development project  A complex of structures and uses planned as an integral unit of development rather than as a single principal structure or use on a single lot

Planning and zoning commission, planning commission or commission shall mean the county planning and zoning commission, unless designated specifically otherwise by a prefix or title.

RCRA  Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

Road  A private traffic-carrying way set aside for vehicular traffic primarily serving only one premises or planned development project including private driveways, entrance or exit roads and similar private access roads. Roads are distinguished from streets in that roads are not maintained by the county.

RTA  Regional Transportation Analysis

Salvage yards: Any area, lot, land, parcel, building or structure or part thereof used for the salvage or disposal of materials, including, but not limited to, motor vehicles, boats and other machinery.

SFWMD   South Florida Water Management District

SJRWMD  St. Johns River Water Management District

Small quantity generator (SQG)  A small quantity generator, as defined by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, 40 Code of Federal Regulations 260, is one who generates less than one thousand (1,000) kilograms (two thousand two hundred (2,200) pounds or approximately two hundred fifty (250) gallons) of hazardous waste in a calendar month.

Solid waste  Solid waste includes garbage, refuse, white goods, special waste, ashes, sludge or other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material resulting from domestic, industrial, commercial, mining, agricultural or governmental operations.

Special Exception Use - Process that allows for uses which are not permitted by right within a zone but may be permitted if reviewed and approved through a special process. 

Special protection areas  Zones delineated around vulnerable features, such as sinkholes, excavations or caves, within which land uses are regulated to protect the quality of the groundwater resource.

SRWMD   Suwannee River Water Management District

Street means a way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a public street, highway, thoroughfare, road, parkway, throughway, avenue, boulevard, lane, place, right-of-way or however designated.

Subdivider or owner includes the plural as well as the singular, and may mean either a natural person, firm, association, partnership, private corporation, public or quasi-public corporation or any combination of any of them.

Subdivision - . Subdivision means the division of a lot, tract or parcel of land into two (2) or more contiguous lots or parcels for transfer, sale or development. Each lot created shall have access on a street, tract or easement appropriate to the class of subdivision. The following shall not be considered subdivisions within the meaning of this chapter if no new streets are created: divisions of property by testamentary or in testate provisions; divisions of property by court order, including, but not limited to, judgments of foreclosure; and consolidation of existing lots by deed or other recorded instrument. The term includes re-subdivision and, when appropriate to the context, shall relate to the process of subdividing or to the land subdivided. The subdivision of land is permitted in any zoning district in accordance with provisions and regulations of such zoning district. Access and utility tract shall mean a tract of land a minimum of sixty (60) feet in width which is owned by all lot owners within the subdivision with each lot owner having an undivided interest in the access and utility tract. The purpose of the access and utility tract is to provide access to all lots within the subdivision and the access and utility tract shall carry an express easement which inures to the benefit of any public or private utility company.

SWFWMD    Southwest Florida Water Management District (aka "swiftmud")

TAC  Technical Advisory Committee

TBCRA    Tampa Bay Communter Rail Authority

TBRPC Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council

TD   Transportation Disadvantaged

TIP  Transportation Improvement Program

TNC  The Nature Conservancy

TPL  Trust for Public Lands

Tree-lined road. Roads, whether rural or urban, that are characterized by rows of trees bordering both sides of the road corridor but having an insufficient crown spread to constitute a canopy covering over said road

UPWP   Unified Planning Work Program

USBM   Bureau of Mines

USCG   United States Coast Guard

USFS  United States Forestry Service

USFWS  United State Fish and Wildlife Service

USGS United States Geological Survey

USSCS . . .United States Soil Conservation Service

Vulnerable feature  A natural or man-made feature of the land which has the potential to discharge directly to the aquifer. These features include excavations and solution features such as sinkholes, caves and mine pits which expose the top of the Floridian Aquifer

Wellhead protection areas (WHPA)  Zones delineated around wells and/or wellfields within which land uses are regulated to protect the quality of the groundwater resource.

WRPC   Withlacoochee Regional Planning Council

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