"Site" means one or several lots or part of a lot clearly related to a particular development, application, proposal, or use. A site comprising more than one Lot shall be held in such a way that separate Lots or part of a Lot cannot be disposed of separately.

See Appendix 2, Figure 1 for definitions of front, rear, corner and through sites.

"Storage and Warehousing" means land or buildings for the purpose of storing materials and includes recycling depots, but excludes retailing.

"Storey" is that part of a building from the upper surface of any floor to the upper surface of the floor above, measured from finished floor level.  The topmost storey shall be from the upper surface of the topmost floor to be upper surface of the ceiling joists above, or where no ceiling exists to the upper surface of the roof cladding.

For the purposes of calculating the height of a building, where this is fixed by the number of storeys:

• The maximum height of a storey shall be 4 metres;
• Basements below ground level are excluded;
• An attic, or any space between ceiling joists and a roof shall be counted as a storey when the distance from the upper surface of the ceiling joists, or floor, to the mean height of the upper surface of the roof, is 3 metres or more and the attic has an area greater than 5m2.

"Subdivision" has the same meaning as that found in Section 218 of the Resource Management Act 1991, and includes cross leases, unit titles and company leases in accordance with that definition.

"Upgrading" means for the purposes of Section 8 - electrical lines, that there may be an increase in the carrying capacity of, or security of, the line - provided that existing support structures or structures of a similar scale and character are used. Note: the upgrading permitted does not include a change in voltage to the lines such as 110kV to 220kV unless the existing support structures have already been built to cater for the higher voltage. This definition is intended to enable reconductoring (replacing existing conductors or wires), adding an additional circuit (adding a second set (3) of conductors), and adding earthwires (adding to the top of a structure and placing a wire between pylons to intercept lightning strike).

“Vulnerable road user” means pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists at greater risk than others being involved in a crash, or more susceptible to serious injury.  It includes older people, impaired people, children and mobility-impaired pedestrians.

"Waahi Tapu" means a place sacred to Maori in the traditional, spiritual, religious, ritual or mythological sense.

"Yard" means a part of a site which is required by this Plan to be unoccupied and unobstructed by buildings from the ground upwards, except as otherwise provided by this Plan and including signs, eaves of any building and any patio, verandah, service station canopies in front yards, gutter or downpipe may project over any yard by not more than 0.6m. (For diagrams illustrating yards see Appendix 2).

• "Front Yard" means a yard between the road and a line parallel thereto and extending across the full width of the site.
• "Rear Yard" means a yard between the rear boundary of the site and a line parallel thereto extending across the full width of the site and passing through the nearest point of the principal to the rear boundary.
  
  Provided that:
  
  In the event of there being a triangular site, the site shall have side yards.
  
  A yard in respect of a rear site means a continuous yard bounded by all boundaries of the site exclusive of the entrance strip.
• "Side Yard" means a yard between a side boundary of the site and a line parallel thereto extending from the front yard (or the front boundary of the site if there is no front yard) to the rear yard (or if there is no rear yard, the rear boundary of the site) or if there are two or more front yards extending from yard to yard.

Note:  Should any definition in the District Plan conflict with a definition in the MPDC Development Manual 2010, the definition in the District Plan shall prevail.

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