TMRPA

 

Above Ground [Utility Infrastructure]
The placement of utility infrastructure above the surface of the ground.

 

Affected Entity
A public utility, franchise holder, local or regional agency, or any other entity having responsibility for planning or providing public facilities relating to transportation, solid waste, energy generation and transmission, conventions and the promotion of tourism, air quality, or public education. Does not include a state agency or a public utility that is subject to regulation by the public utilities commission of Nevada (NRS 278.026).

 

Affordable Housing
Housing that is affordable for a family with a total gross income equal to or less than 80 percent of the median gross income for the county concerned based upon the estimates of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) of the most current median gross family income for the county (NRS 278.0105).

 

Agriculture
The use of land for agricultural purposes, including farming, dairying, pasturage, agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, viticulture, animal and poultry husbandry, and the necessary accessory uses for storing the products.

 

Air Quality Management Plan
A detailed description of the programs a state will use to carry out its responsibilities under the federal Clean Air Act. The plan is a collection of reports and regulations used by an area to reduce air pollution. Also known as a State Implementation Plan (SIP), the Environmental Protection Agency must approve the document.

 

Amendment
Any repeal, modification, or addition to a goal, policy, or procedure, any new goal, policy or procedure, or any change in the number, shape, boundary or area or any repeal or modification of any map, part thereof or addition thereto.

 

Annexation
The process used by a municipality to add surrounding fringe areas to the City or town.

 

Annual Reporting
A means by which local governments and affected entities submit material and data on an annual basis with regards to information contained in the Regional Plan.

 

Area Median Income (AMI)
The Area Median Income is established by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) based on a family of four and adjusted for family size. HUD issues a listing of the area media incomes by Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and by county each year. Also known as "median gross family income."

 

Archeological Resources
Any material of past human life, activities, or habitation that are of historic or prehistoric significance. Such material includes, but is not limited to, pottery, basketry, bottles, weapon projectiles, tools, structures, pit houses, rock paintings, rock carvings, intaglios, graves, skeletal remains, personal items and clothing, household or business refuse, printed matter, manufactured items, or any piece of the foregoing items.

 

Assisted Living Facilities
A living arrangement in which people with special needs, especially seniors with disabilities, reside in a facility that provides help with everyday tasks such as bathing, dressing, and taking medication.

 

Attainable Housing
Housing that is affordable for a family with a total gross income greater than 80 percent and equal to or less than 120 percent of the median gross income for the county concerned based upon the estimates of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) of the most current median gross family income for the county (NRS 278.0105). Also known as "workforce housing."

 

Boundary
A line which may or may not follow a visible feature that defines the limits of a geographic entity such as a block, block numbering area, census tract, county, or place.

 

Bureau of Land Management
An agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior which administers 264 million acres of America's public lands located primarily in 12 Western States. The BLM sustains the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.

 

Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Inventory General Guidelines
A document, which acts as a set of guidelines for instructions for conducting cultural resource inventories on BLM lands, or lands affected by BLM actions, within the state of Nevada.

 

Capital Improvements Program
A plan for capital expenditures to be incurred each year over a fixed period of several years setting forth each capital project identifying the expected beginning and ending date for each project, the amount to be expended in each year, and the method of financing those expenditures.

 

Census
A complete enumeration, usually of a population but also businesses and commercial establishments, farms, governments, and so forth.

 

Cities' Areas of Interest
The area of land beyond the expanded spheres of influence where cities have an interest in a specific aspect of County planning as described in the Settlement Agreement in the case of Washoe County and the Sun Valley General Improvement District vs. the Truckee Meadows Regional Planning Governing Board (CV02-03469). This excludes properties added to the Washoe County portion of the TMSA after July 26, 2006 (see Map 7).

 

Civic Uses
Any land, building or facility providing a service or function supported and managed by a City, County, or State Government.

 

Co-location [of utilityinfrastructure]
The use of existing utility infrastructure to affix or erect additional utility equipment

 

Community
A sub-area of the County located within the Truckee Meadows Service Area consisting of residential, institutional, and commercial uses sharing a common identity.

 

Compatible
Any property, use, or service that is capable of direct association with certain other uses because it is complementary, congruent, or otherwise non-detrimental. Airport noise compatibility may include noise attenuation north of Interstate 80.

 

Concurrency
A land use planning and implementation tool that is designed to ensure that necessary public services and facilities to support new development are or will be available and adequate, based on adopted levels of service (LOS) standards, at the time the impact of new development occurs.

 

Consensus Forecast
A methodology combining the population/employment forecasts from various reliable sources.

 

Cooperative Planning Area
Areas within the Truckee Meadows where more than one jurisdiction has an interest in the density, intensity, or character of development as described in the Settlement Agreement in the case of Washoe County and the Sun Valley General Improvement District vs. the Truckee Meadows Regional Planning Governing Board (CV02-03469) (see Map 7).

 

Core Area
The area within the Truckee Meadows area consisting of the two downtowns, other designated Regional Centers, and the transportation links among them. The core areas are characterized by a vital mix of uses, including parks and civic uses. Planning for development in core areas should focus on a high degree of pedestrian activity and be well-served by public transit.

 

Cultural Resources
Those resources that possess qualities of significance in American, Nevada, or Washoe County history, architecture, archaeology, and culture present in districts, sites, structures, and objects that possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, congruency, and association.

 

Density
The result of dividing the total number of dwelling units on a site by the total site area. For purposes of calculating density, the site area shall include passive open space with legal public access, and shall not include any of the following: 1) non-residential, mixed-use and public facility properties; 2) property in the Development Constraints Area; 3) property outside the Truckee Meadows Service Areas; 4) existing golf courses; 5) existing parks; and 6) existing regional street and rail rights-of-way.

 

Development
Any building, construction, renovation, mining, extraction, dredging, filling, excavation, or drilling activity or operation; any material change in the use or appearance of any structure or in the land itself; the division of land into parcels; any change in the intensity or use of land, such as in increase in the number of dwelling units in a structure or a change to a commercial or industrial use from a less intensive use; any activity that alters a shore, beach, seacoast, river, stream, lake, pond, canal, marsh, dune area, woodlands, wetland, endangered species habitat, aquifer or other resource area, including coastal construction or other activity.

 

Development Constraints Area
Area consisting of playa, significant water bodies, jurisdictional water/wetland in accordance with Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, designated FEMA floodway areas within the Zone AE, natural slopes over 30%, publicly owned open space, and properties that are deed restricted to prevent development, but not including constrained lands less than 1/3 acre in size (see Map 3).

 

Diverse
Difference among otherwise similar elements that give them unique forms and qualities.

 

Downtown Centers
Mixed-use areas that contain developments, services and facilities that provide the primary social, cultural, civic, and economic focal points of the region. The Downtown Centers will contain high-density residential developments and will have the highest level and range of activities in the region including shopping, recreation, dining and entertainment, gaming and accommodation, employment and education, cultural or community events, and public services and facilities. Downtown Centers will be multi-modal and/or transit hubs will be sited along automobile or transit corridors.

 

Dwelling
A building, or part of a building, containing living, sleeping, housekeeping accommodations, and sanitary facilities for occupancy by one or more families.

 

Economy
Management of the resources of a community or business.

 

Educational Infrastructure
Facilities and services which serve to provide educational instruction to students.

 

Easement
A grant by a property owner to the use of land by the public, a corporation, or persons for specific purposes such as the construction of utilities, drainage ways and roadways (Source: American Planning Association).

 

Electrical Distribution Line
A utility line with the capacity to carry less than 60 kilovolts of electricity typically extending from a feeder cable into a specific area for the purpose of providing service to that area.

 

Electrical Transmission Line
A utility line with the capacity to carry 60 kilovolts or more of electricity.

 

Emerging Employment Centers
Areas to be identified in local government master plans where rapid employment growth is currently occurring or planned, and areas where job centers are needed to provide a jobs-housing balance within the region.

 

Environment
The physical conditions which exist within the area that will be affected by a proposed project, including land, air, water, mineral, flora, fauna, noise, and objects of historic or aesthetic significance.

 

Ethnic
Of or pertaining to a religious, racial, national, or cultural group.

 

Expanded Sphere of Influence
The area of land contained within the City of Reno and the City of Sparks sphere of influence, as amended, but not including any lands contained within a city's sphere of influence prior to May 9, 2002 and after July 26, 2006.

 

Expansion [electrical transmission]
Any increase in the capacity of an existing electrical transmission line or utility corridor.

 

Facility Plans
A plan for the development of public facilities that will have a regional impact or aide in accomplishing regional goals relating to transportation, solid waste, energy generation and transmission, conventions and the promotion of tourism, air quality, or public education. The term does not include a plan for the development of a specific site or regulations adopted by an affected entity to implement the Regional Plan. Also known as "Facilities Plan" (see subsection 2 of NRS 278.026).

 

Feathering (of densities)
A graduated change in density between areas of higher intensity of use to areas of lower intensity of use. Feathering strategies may include, but are not limited to, a gradual change in lot size, compatible frontage widths for lots facing each other, building designs that create compatibility on facing lots, or landscape buffering.

 

Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) Part 77 Area
The airspace surrounding a public-use airport into which the penetration of vertical structures may pose a safety hazard to aeronautical activity. The Federal Aviation Administration, through FAR Part 77, establishes criteria for determining the length, slope, trajectory, and other characteristics of the imaginary surface planes that constitute FAR Part 77 areas.

 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
An independent commission that regulates the transmission of oil and natural gas, the transmission and wholesale sale of electricity, and the licensing of hydroelectric companies.

 

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
An independent agency that provides a single point of accountability for all federal emergency preparedness, mitigation, and response activities.

 

FEMA Floodplain Zone AE
Areas that have a 1% probability of flooding in any year (also known as the "100-year floodplain"), and where predicted flood water elevations above mean sea level have been established. Properties in Zone AE are considered to be at high risk of flooding under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Flood insurance is required for all properties in Zone AE that have federally-backed mortgages. Construction in these areas must meet local jurisdiction floodplain ordinance requirements.

 

Floor-Area Ratio (FAR)
The ratio of the total floor area of buildings on a certain location to the size of the land of that location. As a formula: Floor Area Ratio = (Total covered area on all floors of all buildings on a certain plot)/(Area of the plot). Thus, an FAR of 2.0 would indicate that the total floor area of a building is two times the gross area of the plot on which it is constructed.

 

Floodway Area
The floodway is defined as: "the channel of a river or stream, and those portions of the floodplain adjoining the channel required to carry the regional flood discharge." Floodways are generally associated with moving water during a flood event. Under local jurisdiction floodplain ordinances, most construction is prohibited in a floodway.

 

Forecasts
The most probable of a set of projections to happen.

 

Fundamental Assumptions
A series of points thought to be taken as true without proof or demonstration constituting or functioning as an essential component of the Truckee Meadows Regional Plan.

 

Future Service Areas (FSA)
Future Service Areas (FSA) are areas identified for future (beyond the 20 year Truckee Meadows Regional Plan) inclusion in the TMSA (and SOI, if a city) for each jurisdiction. To add land to its TMSA, each jurisdiction must first prepare a natural resource management plan for the area to be added and must meet minimum density thresholds in its existing TMSA.

 

Gaming Sector
Those activities pertaining to a full range of gaming activities including, for example; race and sports betting, lotteries, casinos, community gaming (eg. "housie"), non-casino gaming machines, Internet and cross-border gaming.

 

Geographic Area
The primary focus of the Truckee Meadows Regional Plan which includes the southern 15% of Washoe County with a northern boundary at T26N. Excluded from this region are the lands administered by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the Tribal Lands.

 

Goal
A desired state of affairs to which planned effort is directed.

 

Governing Body
The City council or other legislative body of the City or the board of County commissioners or, in the case of Carson City, the board of supervisors (NRS 278.015).

 

Greenways
A linear open space of varying width that is part of a bigger network established along a corridor, such as a river or road right-of-way, that is usually developed for non-vehicular public use.

 

Growth
An increase in size, number, value, or strength.

 

Housing Products
The broad range of styles and types of residences or dwelling places for people.

 

Human Scale Development
Development designed to create and sustain a pleasant and efficient environment for pedestrians, through the utilization of such features as ample sidewalks; short walking distances; choices of pedestrian routes; continuity of pedestrian routes; provisions of amenities for pedestrians; restrained scale of lots, blocks, buildings, setbacks, signage, street widths, parking areas and commercial and residential clusters; fine-grained mixed uses; eye-level architectural detail; and, access by multiple transportation modes.

 

Implementation
Actions, procedures, programs, or techniques that carry out policies.

 

Incorporated City
Areas/neighborhoods organized for the purpose of self-government. Reno and Sparks are the only incorporated cities in Washoe County.

 

Industrial Development
A business use or activity at a scale greater than home industry involving manufacturing, fabrication, assembly, warehousing, and/or storage.

 

Industry Sector
A distinct part of division which pertains to the manufacture, fabrication, processing, reduction, or destruction of any article, substance or commodity, or any treatment thereof in such a manager as to change the form, character, or appearance thereof, and includes storage elevators, truck storage yards, warehousing, wholesale storage, and other similar types of enterprise.

 

Infill
Development or redevelopment of land that has been by-passed, remained vacant, and/or is underused as a result of the continuing urban development process. Generally, the areas and/or sites are not particularly of prime quality; however, they are usually served by or are readily accessible to infrastructure.

 

Infrastructure
The basic facilities such as roads, schools, power plants, transmission lines, transportation, and communication systems on which the continuance and growth of a community depends.

 

Intensity
Any ratio that assesses the relative level of activity of a land use, including, but not limited to, a floor area ratio, building coverage ratio, or impervious surface ratio.

 

Jurisdictions
Any governmental unit or political division or subdivision including, but not limited to city, county, state, district, or territory over which the governmental unit exercises power and authority.

 

Kilovolt (kV)
The equivalent of 1,000 volts (see definition of "volt").

 

Land Use
The primary or primary and secondary uses of land such as single family residential, multiple-family residential, commercial, industrial or agriculture. The description of a particular land use should convey the dominant character of a geographic area and thereby establish the types of activities which are appropriate and compatible with primary uses.

 

Land Stock
An inventory of the quantity of land available for use.

 

Local Government
The City of Reno, City of Sparks, or Washoe County.

 

Local Renewable Energy Source
Energy generated from, but not limited to, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, biomass, methane, and waste heat recovery that is intended solely for a single end use on or directly adjacent to the parcel on which the energy is generated. Small amounts of the electricity generated from local renewable energy sources may temporarily return to the power grid in circumstances where net metering arrangements exist.

 

Lot
A distinct part or parcel of land that has been subdivided to transfer ownership or to build. The term does not include a parcel of land used or intended solely for use as a location for a water well (NRS 278.0165).

 

Low Impact Development (LID) Practices
Policies, procedures, and general guidance concerning site design techniques for improving the quality and reducing the quantity of storm water runoff from new development and redevelopment.

 

Master Plan
A comprehensive, long-term, general plan for the physical development of the city, County, or region which includes analysis, recommendation, and proposals for the geographic area it covers.

 

Military installation
Military installation means a base or facility at which or from which the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force Reserve, Army Reserve, Coast Guard Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Navy Reserve or National Guard conducts exercises, maneuvers, operations, patrols or training.

 

Minority
A racial, religious, political, national, or other group regarded as different from the larger group of which it is part.

 

Mixed-use Development
A single building or land containing more than one type of land use or single development of more than one building and use, where the different types of land uses are in close proximity, planned as a unified complementary whole, and functionally integrated to the use of shared vehicular and pedestrian access and parking areas.

 

Multi-family
A detached building designed and used exclusively as a dwelling by three or more families occupying separate suites.

 

Multi-modal
Any and all forms of transportation including but not limited to walking, bicycling, transit services, automobile, and rail systems.

 

Municipal Services
Services traditionally provided by local government and/or affected entities including water and sewer, roads, parks, schools, and public safety.

 

National Electric Safety Code (NESC)
A document published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers that sets the ground rules for practical safeguarding of persons during the installation, operation, or maintenance of electric supply and communication lines and associated equipment. The NESC contains the basic provisions that are considered necessary for the safety of employees and the public under the specified conditions (Source: IEEE).

 

National Ambient Air Quality Standards
A set of standards published by the USEPA in Title 40 of the code of Federal Regulations Subpart 50 that define the levels of air quality necessary to protect human health. The standards apply to the following pollutants: Carbon Monoxide, Ozone, Nitrogen Dioxide, Sulfur Dioxide, Particulate Matter, and Lead.

 

Natural Resource
As used in Policies 4.1.3 and 4.3.6, natural resource means: air quality, quality and quantity of surface water and groundwater; habitat for fish, vegetation, and wildlife; open space; floodplains; wetlands, aquifer recharge areas; stream channels; soils; scenic quality; and energy sources. [Amended 9/11/08]

 

Neighborhood
An area of a community with characteristics that distinguish it from other community areas that may include schools, social clubs, or boundaries defined by physical barriers, such as major highways and railroads, or natural features, such as rivers.

 

Net Metering
A method of metering the energy produced by local renewable energy sources that allows excess electricity produced by the energy source to be returned to the power grid at a credit to the utility customer. Excess power is often credited at full retail price and is used to offset any electricity purchased from the utility. The metered customer is then billed only for the net energy consumed from the power grid.

 

Nevada Department of Transportation
A governmental agency of Nevada that serves to efficiently plan, design, construct, and maintain a safe and effective transportation system for Nevada's economic, environmental, social, and intermodal needs.

 

Northern Nevada Water Planning Commission
Body of Public Works Directors, Water Resource Managers and individuals appointed by the Western Regional Water Planning Commission. This commission's primary function is to serve as the Technical Advisory Committee to the Western Regional Water Commission and is responsible for developing and maintaining the Regional Water Management Plan.

 

Open Space
Properties with free and legal public access that are generally in a natural state. Open space may include spaces that are inappropriate for access or development for any reason such as sensitive environments or hazardous areas (e.g., landslide areas). Open spaces provide native plant and wildlife habitat, passive recreational opportunities, enhance the scenic character of the region, and allow for preservation of significant cultural and archaeological resources.

 

Optimization
The process of making a system as effective or as functional as possible.

 

Pedestrian Access and Amenities
Include, but are not limited to, adequate sidewalks (width and connectivity), plazas, frequent crosswalks, on-demand crosswalk signals, wheelchair accessibility, covered shelters, publicly accessible restrooms, public art, benches, public telephones, landscaping, trash facilities, and public spaces such as small parks.

 

Pedestrian Friendly
Pedestrian friendly features are designed to promote increased walking, street life, and transit ridership. Pedestrian friendly features such as wide, continuous sidewalks, bulb-outs at intersections, shorter crossing distance and signal cycles, mid-block crosswalks, tight radii curb returns, and closely spaced transit access encourage pedestrian use and enhance transit ridership.

 

Placemaking
The process of creating great places that attract people because they are lively, inviting, interesting, enduring, and offer the chance to see and interact with other people. Place-making is characterized by a focus on activities, community, and sociability.

 

Plan
A document, adopted by an agency, that contains, in text, maps, and/or graphics, a method of proceeding, based on analysis and the application of foresight, to guide, direct, or constrain subsequent actions, in order to achieve goals. A plan may contain goals, policies, guidelines, and standards.

 

Playa
Generally a dry or intermittently dry lakebed in the lowest spot of a closed valley. Salt contents are generally quite high.

 

Point Source
Any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to a pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants are or may be discharged. The term does not include return flows from irrigated agriculture (NRS 445A.395).

 

Policy
A specific statement of principle or of guiding actions that implies clear commitment. A general direction that a governmental agency sets to follow in order to meet its goals and objectives.

 

Portal
A website considered as an entry point to other websites.

 

Power Generation Capacity
The maximum amount of electricity (usually measured in watts) capable of being produced at a given power generation facility.

 

Power Generation Facilities
Any facility owned and operated by a public or private utility company or independent power producer for the purpose of generating electric power for distribution through the local electric distribution network or for sale to electric transmission companies.

 

Preservation
To keep in perfect or unaltered condition; maintain unchanged.

 

Projections
A statement about the future based upon the past.

 

Promote
To contribute to the progress of, or growth of; further.

 

Public Access
A means of physical approach to, along, and into lands available to the general public.

 

Public Facilities
A use conducted by, or a facility or structure owned or managed by, a publicly funded entity that provides a governmental function, activity, or service for public benefit.

 

Public Lands
Any land area owned and managed by a public entity for the public good.

 

Public Utilities Commission of Nevada
Pursuant to NRS Chapter 703, the PUCN is a body of three commissioners each appointed by the governor with the power and duty to supervise and regulate the operation and maintenance of public utilities in the state.

 

Quarries
A lot of land or part thereof used for the purpose of extracting stone, sand, gravel, or top soil for sale and exclusive of the process of grading a lot preparatory to the construction of a building for which application for a building permit has been made.

 

Ranchettes
A single dwelling unit occupied by a non-farming household on a parcel of 2.5 to 20 acres that has been subdivided for limited use.

 

Recommendations
Preferred courses of action which assist in the achievement of goals. Recommendations are planning, land use, and general government-related activities that can be pursued, ideally as a whole, to help the community meet its goals and thresholds.

 

Region
An area located in southern Washoe County, south of T26N, excluding the Tahoe Regional Planning Area and Tribal lands.

 

Regional Centers
Mixed-use areas that contain developments, services and facilities that provide a regional benefit. Regional Centers will have a primary specialized focus and will be substantially self-contained. Regional Centers may contain high-density residential developments and will have a high level and range of activities including shopping, recreation, dining and entertainment, gaming and accommodation, employment and education, cultural or community events, and public services and facilities. Regional Centers will include a high level of pedestrian activity. Regional Centers will be multi-modal and/or transit hubs will be sited along automobile or transit corridors.

 

Regional Open Space Plan
A plan created pursuant to NRS 376A.020, which directs Washoe County to develop and coordinate a Regional Open Space Program to include major open space areas that will link to trails or open space corridors.

 

Regional Planning Commission
The RPC has nine members, including three each from the Reno, Sparks, and Washoe County local planning commissions, appointed by their respective governing bodies (NRS 278.0262).

 

Regional Planning Governing Board
The RPGB consists of ten members including three from the Washoe County Commission, four from the Reno City Council, and three from the Sparks City Council (NRS 278.0264).

 

Regional Renewable Energy Source
Energy generated from, but not limited to, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, biomass, methane, and waste heat recovery sources that generate enough power such that the electricity generated is purchased by a utility provider for region-wide use. This does not apply to local renewable energy sources that produce electricity for immediate on-site use.

 

Regional Transportation Commission
The Regional Transportation Commission is the designated Metropolitan Planning Organization for Washoe County and is responsible under the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century for developing the Regional Transportation Plan.

 

Regional Transportation Plan
The 2030 RTP serves as the region's long-range transportation plan to accommodate the Regional Form and land-use, master-planned development in the City of Reno, the City of Sparks, and Washoe County.

 

Regional Utility Corridor
A planning designation assigned to a utility easement that contains or is proposed to contain one or more electrical transmission lines. The width of a regional utility corridor shall be equivalent to the width of the easement required by the responsible utility. The width of the easement may not be less than that specified by the NESC.

 

Regional Utility Corridor Setback
The minimum distance by which any structure must be set back from the edge of a regional utility corridor.

 

Regional Water Management Plan
Document which provides the region with an outline of how water will be managed to meet the needs of the citizens into the future. Major components of the plan are identification of future water supply and wastewater facilities, regional flood control and drainage projects, and development of a conservation program. Serves the area generally described as all lands within Washoe County south of T25N, excluding the Lake Tahoe watershed, Pyramid Lake Paiute Indian Reservation, and other tribal trust lands within the planning areas.

 

Regulation
A rule or order prescribed for management by government.

 

Renewable Energy
Energy generated from rapidly renewable or inexhaustible sources including, but not limited to, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, biomass, methane, and waste heat recovery sources.

 

Resort Destination
A resort facility or development of multiple buildings intended primarily for transient guests where the primary attraction is generally recreational facilities or activities, including, but not limited to snow sports and activities (i.e., ski area residential uses shall be primarily "ski-in / ski-out"), golf, dude and guest ranches, health spas and resorts, backcountry adventures, hunting, fishing, and water sports. A resort destination is generally located in a setting of significant natural amenities, and may include a range of on-site indoor or outdoor recreation facilities.

 

Resort Destination Element
An element of the local master plan that addresses Regional Plan Policy 1.1.14 and related policies regarding the establishment of destination resorts within the Rural Development Area, north of T25N.

 

Resort Service Area
An area inside the Rural Development Area, south of T26N and outside the Truckee Meadows Service Areas, where local government master plans may allow for the development of resort destinations.

 

Right-of-way
A strip of land acquired by reservation, dedication, prescription, or condemnation intended to be occupied by a street, trail, water line, sanitary sewer, and/or other public utilities or facilities.

 

Road
All property dedicated or intended for public or private road, street, alley, highway, freeway, or roadway purposes, or dedicated or intended for public easements therefore.

 

RTC's Primary Transit Network
The Primary Transit Network is intended to improve the appeal of public transportation to a diverse group of riders, to reduce individual automobile trips, and to provide the lowest cost to riders by achieving maximum productivity. The PTN includes concepts such as Bus Rapid Transit, conversion of Prater Way and Virginia Street to transit corridors with exclusive transit travel lanes, retrofitting signals on Virginia Street to add queue jumping capabilities to improve transit reliability, and other improvements to support and encourage transit ridership.

 

Rural Development Area
Area within the region lying outside the Truckee Meadows Service Areas.

 

School
A school is defined as being either a primary, secondary, or non-traditional secondary (public or private) institution of learning which offers instruction in one or more branches of learning.

Secretary of Interior's Standards for Archeology and Historic Preservation
A document which provides technical advice about archaeological and historic preservation activities and methods. It includes identification, evaluation, documentation, registration, and treatment of historic properties.

 

Shall
Mandatory to carry out the policy, even if a timeframe is not included. Meaning imperative and non-discretionary. Subject to funding and budgetary constraints, which may not allow for implementation of the policy and subject to provisions of the annual budget.

 

Significant Ridgelines
Ridgelines that surround or visually dominate the valley landscape either through their size in relation to the hillside or mountain terrain of which they are a part; their visual dominance as characterized by a silhouetting appearance against the sky; as a significant backdrop feature or separation of communities; through visual dominance due to proximity and view from existing development or major corridors; or as an area of significant ecological, historical or cultural importance such as those which connect park or trail systems.

 

Sphere of Influence
An area into which a City plans to expand as designated in a comprehensive Regional Plan adopted pursuant to NRS 278.026 to 278.029, inclusive, within the time designated in the comprehensive Regional Plan (NRS 268.623).

 

Sprawl
Premature growth or outward expansion of development. Low-density land-use patterns that are automobile-dependent, energy and land consumptive, and require a very high ratio of road surface to development served.

 

Stakeholder
Individuals and/or groups which have a shared interest in an enterprise.

 

Station Area
A concentrated intense area of development and activity within a TOD Corridor or Center that is mixed-use, includes a rapid transit stop, supports high transit frequency and efficient transit function, provides amenities for pedestrians and bicyclists, and is a high priority for infill development.

 

Streets
Open and public thoroughfares including streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, lanes, alleys, viaducts, public easements and right-of-way, and other ways (NRS 278.018).

 

Substation [Electrical]
An assemblage of equipment that switches, changes, or regulates voltage in the electric transmission and distribution system. Substations that connect two or more transmission circuits without transforming the voltage are called switching stations or taps (see also "utility site").

 

Substation [Natural Gas]
An assemblage of equipment for the use of managing the supply of natural gas in the regional system (see also "utility site").

 

Suburban
Suburban development includes residential uses at generally one to three single family units per acre and supportive nonresidential and public development.

 

Sustainability
Community use of natural resources in a way that does not jeopardize the ability of future generations to live and prosper.

 

Sustainable design and construction
Design and construction techniques that maintain or enhance economic opportunity and community well-being while protecting and restoring the natural environment upon which people and economies depend. Sustainable design and construction meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

 

Tentative Map
A map made to show the design of a proposed subdivision and the existing conditions in and around it (NRS 278.019).

 

Transit Hub
A transit hub is a central transportation facility capable of accommodating multiple modes of transportation. A transit hub in Reno could include Citi-Center, a Greyhound Bus Terminal, an Amtrak Depot, accommodation for taxi's and tour busses, and perhaps a parking structure and retail shops.

 

Transit Oriented Development (TOD)
Moderate and high-density housing concentrated in mixed-use developments located along transit routes. The location, design, and mix of uses in a TOD emphasize pedestrian-oriented environments and encourages the use of public transportation.

 

Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Corridor
Corridors depicted on Map 4 of the Regional Plan, generally ¼ mile wide on each side of the designated transportation route or road, as further defined in local government master plans.

 

Transit Stations
Provide the interface between pedestrians and the transit service and will include consistent design within TOD Corridors and at a minimum will include seating capacity and signage. The establishment of stations acknowledges that future progression of transit services (i.e. bus to bus rapid transit, to light rail, etc.) is an option that the community may wish to pursue in the future.

 

Transmission Capacity
The maximum voltage able to be carried in a given electrical transmission line.

 

Transportation System Management
Includes, but not limited to, signal coordination and prioritization, queue jumping at all signal intersections, wide sidewalks, bike lanes and designated High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes.

 

Truckee Meadows Regional Plan
A comprehensive Regional Plan for the physical development and orderly management of the growth of the region for the next 20 years.

 

Truckee Meadows Service Areas (TMSA)
The defined areas within which municipal services and infrastructure will be provided. This area includes the high intensity core areas and existing and planned urban and suburban uses.

 

Underground Construction (Undergrounding)
The placement of utility infrastructure below the surface of the ground.

 

Unincorporated Areas
Areas outside any city and under Washoe County's jurisdiction.

 

Unincorporated Communities
Management units that may be designated in the Washoe County Comprehensive Plan in unincorporated areas within the TMSA and outside the two cities and their Spheres of Influence.

 

Urban Development
Development occurring at an intensity greater than 3 dwelling units per acre that is served by community water and sewer.

 

Urban Growth
Development that makes intensive use of land for the location of buildings, other structures, and impermeable surfaces to such a degree as to be incompatible with the primary use of such land for the production of food, fiber, or other agricultural products, or the extraction of mineral resources and that, when allowed to spread over wide areas, typically requires municipal services.

 

Utilities
All lines and facilities related to the provision, distribution, collection, transmission, or disposal of water, storm and sanitary sewage, oil, gas, power, information, telecommunication and telephone cable.

 

Utility Corridor
See: "Regional Utility Corridor."

 

Utility Provider
Any public or private entity including a governmental utility, a public utility regulated by the PUCN, a rural electric cooperative, a cooperative association, nonprofit corporation, nonprofit association or provider of electric service, or a community water system that provides water service, electric service or natural gas service to 500 or more service locations; or operates any pipeline that is necessary to provide such service (NRS 239C.110).

 

Utility Site
An electrical or natural gas substation.

 

Viewshed
The area within view from a defined observation point.

 

Vision Statement
A statement that defines a community's preferred future.

 

Volt
A unit of measurement of force, or pressure, in an electrical circuit.

 

Water Bodies
Areas that include lakes, playas, rivers, streams, and federally designated wetlands and floodways.

 

Watershed
All lands enclosed by a continuous hydrologic drainage divide and lying upslope from a specified point on a stream. Also referred to as water basin. A ridge of relatively high land dividing two areas that are drained by different river systems.

 

Water System Facility Plans
A plan that describes service area and pressure zone boundaries, facilities necessary to serve developments within these boundaries, and the location and timing of the necessary facility improvements.

 

Western Regional Water Commission
Board of elected officials from each of the local jurisdictions and publicly owned water purveyors set up by Senate Bill 487, which was passed in the 2007 Legislative Session. This Board's main focus will be to improve water resource planning at the regional level, facilitate coordinated resource management among all water purveyors and adopt or revise the Regional Water Management Plan as needed. [Amended 9/11/08]

 

Wetland
Those areas that are inundated and saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, including swamps, marches, bogs, and similar areas. Specifically, jurisdictional water/wetland in accordance with Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.

 

Workforce Housing
Housing that is affordable for a family with a total gross income greater than 80 percent and equal to or less than 120 percent of the median gross income for the county concerned based upon the estimates of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) of the most current median gross family income for the county. (NRS 278.0105) Also known as "attainable housing."

 

Zone
Any section or sections of a City or County for which the regulations governing the use of land and the use, density, bulk, height, and coverage of buildings and other structures, are uniform.

 

Zoning
A local ordinance that divides a community into districts and specifies allowable uses and development standards for each consistent with the adopted community master plan.