2005 California Public Resources Code Sections 29100-29117 CHAPTER 2. DEFINITIONS

29100.  Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions set
forth in this chapter govern the interpretation of this division.
29101.  "Suisun Marsh" or "marsh" means water-covered areas, tidal
marsh, diked-off wetlands, seasonal marshes, lowland grasslands,
upland grasslands, and cultivated lands specified on the map
identified in Section 16 of that chapter of the Statutes of the
1977-78 Regular Session enacting this division.  It includes both the
primary and secondary management areas as shown on the Suisun Marsh
Protection Plan Map and includes the entire right-of-way of any state
highway that is designated as a portion of the boundary of the
marsh.
29101.5.  Notwithstanding Section 29101, "Suisun Marsh" does not
include the real property described as follows:
   Beginning at a point in the easterly line of Section 32, T5N R1W,
M.D.B. & M., said point being the northeast corner of the lands now
or formerly of J.B. Lemon; thence along the north line of said lands
of Lemon S 88* 15' W 840 feet to the north line of the Pacific Gas
and Electric Company Tower Line; thence along said Tower Line N 38*
10' W 350 feet to an angle point; thence S 83* 00' W 2,020 feet;
thence leaving said Tower Line N 42* W 450 feet; thence N 55* W 700
feet; thence N 75* W 540 feet; thence S 73* W 910 feet to the
easterly line of Section 31, T5N, R1W, M.D.B. & M.; thence along said
line N 1* 30' W 1,060 feet to a point 915.00 feet, measured at right
angles, south of the south right-of-way line of State Highway Route
12; thence parallel with said State Highway N 89* 30' W 3,840 feet to
the easterly line of Grizzly Island Road; thence along said easterly
line N 2* 30' W 981 feet to the northerly right-of-way line of State
Highway Route 12; thence along said line S 89* 30' E 3,825 feet to
said easterly line of Section 31; thence continuing along said
northerly line in an easterly and southeasterly direction to said
easterly line of said Section 32; thence along said easterly line
southerly to the point of beginning.
29102.  "Primary management area" means water-covered areas, tidal
marsh, diked-off wetlands, seasonal marsh, and lowland grassland
specified on the map identified in Section 16 of that chapter of the
Statutes of the 1977 -78 Regular Session enacting this division.
29103.  "Secondary management area" means the upland grasslands,
cultivated lands, and low-lying areas adjacent to the primary
management area specified on the map identified in Section 16 of that
chapter of the Statutes of the 1977-78 Regular Session enacting this
division.
29104.  "Watershed" means the immediate watershed of the marsh
upland from the secondary management area and located in the County
of Solano, including those creeks, streams, channels, or other water
areas in the County of Solano that are tributary to, or flow into,
the marsh. "Creeks, streams, channels, or other water areas" includes
areas that are riparian thereto.
29105.  "Managed wetland" means those diked areas in the marsh in
which water inflow and outflow is artificially controlled or in which
waterfowl food plants are cultivated, or both, to enhance habitat
conditions for waterfowl and other water-associated birds, wildlife,
or fish, regardless of whether such areas are used for hunting or
fishing or nonconsumptive uses such as nature study, photography, and
similar passive wildlife activities, or a combination of both such
consumptive and nonconsumptive uses.
29106.  "Commission" means the San Francisco Bay Conservation and
Development Commission created by Title 7.2 (commencing with Section
66600) of the Government Code.
29107.  "Department" means the Department of Fish and Game.
29108.  "County" means the County of Solano.
29109.  "Local government" means the County of Solano and the Cities
of Suisun City, Fairfield, and Benicia.
29110.  "District" means any public agency, other than a local
government, formed pursuant to general law or special act for the
local performance of governmental or proprietary functions within
limited boundaries.  "District" includes, but is not limited to, a
county service area, a maintenance district or area, an improvement
district or improvement zone, a mosquito abatement district, a
resource conservation district, an irrigation district, a reclamation
district, a sanitary or sewer district, or any other zone or area,
formed for the purpose of designating an area within which either an
assessment or a property tax rate will be levied to pay for a service
or improvement benefiting that area or a special function will be
carried out within that area.
29111.  "Local protection program" means those provisions of general
or specific plans; ordinances; zoning district maps; land use
regulations, procedures, or controls; or any other programs,
procedures, standards, or controls that are adopted, undertaken, or
carried out by local governments, districts, or the Solano County
Local Agency Formation Commission in and adjacent to the marsh, are
submitted by the county to the commission pursuant to Chapter 5
(commencing with Section 29400), and meet the requirements of, and
implement, this division and the Suisun Marsh Protection Plan at the
local level.
29112.  "Local protection program component" or "component" means a
part of the local protection program that is prepared by or submitted
to the county pursuant to Section 29411 or prepared by the Suisun
Resource Conservation District pursuant to Section 29412.5 for
inclusion in the local protection program.
29113.  (a) "Suisun Marsh Protection Plan" or "protection plan"
means the Suisun Marsh Protection Plan prepared and adopted by the
commission and submitted to the Governor and Legislature pursuant to
former Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 1850) of Division 2 of the
Fish and Game Code. The protection plan includes the Suisun Marsh
Protection Plan Map and the Suisun Marsh Protection Plan Natural
Factors Map prepared as a part of such plan.
   (b) "Protection plan policies" or "policies of the protection plan"
means the policies set forth in Part II (pages 10 to 29, inclusive)
of the protection plan.
29114.  (a) "Development" means on land, or in or under water, the
placement or erection of any solid material or structure; discharge
or disposal of any dredged material or of any gaseous, liquid, solid,
or thermal waste; grading, removing, dredging, mining, or extraction
of any materials; change in the density or intensity of use of land,
including, but not limited to, subdivision pursuant to Subdivision
Map Act (commencing with Section 66410 of the Government Code), and
any other division of land including lot splits, except where the
land division is brought about in connection with the purchase of
such land by a public agency for public recreational use; change in
the intensity of use of water or in access thereto; construction,
reconstruction, demolition, or alteration of the size of any
structure, including any facility of any private, public, or
municipal utility; and the removal or harvesting of major vegetation
other than for agricultural purposes.
   (b) "Development" does not include either a change in the
intensity of use of water or the removal or harvesting of major
vegetation where such change, removal, or harvesting is to maintain
or improve wildfowl habitat and does not have a significant, adverse
effect on other fish and wildlife resources in the marsh.
29115.  "Feasible" means capable of being accomplished in a
successful manner within a reasonable period of time, taking into
account economic, environmental, social, and technological factors.
29116.  "Permit" means any license, certificate, approval, or other
entitlement for use granted or denied by any public agency which is
subject to the provisions of this division.
29117.  (a) "Person" means any individual, organization,
partnership, limited liability company, or other business association
or corporation, including any utility; and the federal government,
the state, any local government, or any district, or any agency
thereof.
   (b) "Aggrieved person" means any person who, in person or through
a representative, appeared at a public hearing of the local
government in connection with the decision made or action appealed;
or who, by other appropriate means prior to a hearing, informed the
local government of the nature of his or her concerns; or who for
good cause was unable to do either of the foregoing. "Aggrieved
person" includes the applicant for a permit; and, with respect to the
approval of the local protection program, or any component thereof,
any affected local government.