§ 2.88.010. Definitions.

The definitions contained in Title 18 of this code, as amended, shall be fully applicable to this chapter except as hereinafter otherwise defined. Such definitions include the following:

A.

"Appellant" means any interested person filing an appeal under this chapter.

B.

"Approving authority" means the officer, director, agency, commission, subsidiary board of the county, department or board of appeals which made the decision being appealed.

C.

"Board" means the board of supervisors of Napa County.

D.

"Clerk" means the clerk of the board of supervisors of Napa County.

E.

"Hearing" means any proceeding at which a person may attend and present testimony, including but not limited to, public hearings and noticed public hearings.

F.

"Interested person" means:

1.

For an appeal of a decision made for the following discretionary land use permits: conditional use permits and modifications thereto, variances, rezonings and zoning text amendments, telecommunications permits, viewshed applications and certificates of legal nonconformity, "interested person" means the approving authority, any person who testified or offered evidence at a hearing or other proceeding at which the matter being appealed was considered, and all persons, including businesses, corporations or other public or private entities, shown on the last equalized assessment roll as owning real property within one thousand feet of any property which is the subject of the appeal.

2.

For all other appeals, "interested person" means the approving authority, any person who testified or offered evidence at a hearing or other proceeding at which the matter being appealed was considered, and all persons, including businesses, corporations or other public or private entities, shown on the last equalized assessment roll as owning real property within three hundred feet of any property which is the subject of the appeal.

3.

"Interested person" includes the appellant and the permittee, if different, whether or not they appeared at the hearing, but does not include other persons unless such persons testified or offered evidence at the hearing other than by merely affixing their signatures to petitions submitted at the hearing.

4.

Notwithstanding the foregoing subsections (F)(1) through (F)(3), where the appeal is of a decision granting a lot line adjustment, a minor modification of a use permit, or a conditional certificate of compliance, "interested person" includes any member of the public.

G.

"Noticed public hearing" means a hearing that is noticed in accordance with Section 18.136.040 of this code, or any similar provision of law.

H.

"Permit" means any permit, certificate, license or other entitlement for use, or any determination, decision or action made or taken by any approving authority under this code, including any environmental determination made pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and state or county guidelines or other regulations adopted to implement CEQA.

I.

"Permittee" means the person who has applied for the permit which is the subject of the appeal.

J.

"Working day" means a day when the office of the clerk of the board of supervisors is open for business. Weekends, county holidays as well as days when the office is closed for regular business due to a declared or posted emergency do not constitute working days.

(Ord. No. 1358, § 2, 4-26-2011; Ord. No. 1395, § 1, 12-16-2014)