As used in this chapter, the following acronyms shall have the
meanings indicated:
AASHTO
American Association of State Highway and Transportation
Officials.
ADA
Americans with Disabilities Act.
ADT
Average daily traffic.
ASTM
American Society for Testing and Materials.
CBR
California Bearing Ratio.
DELDOT
Delaware Department of Transportation.
GABC
Graded aggregate base course.
MOT
Maintenance of traffic.
MUTCD
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
PCC
Portland cement concrete.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
ALLEY
A public right-of-way affording secondary means of access
to abutting property.
APPLICANT
A person, firm, or governmental agency submitting an application
for any type of development (including site and/or subdivision) approval,
permit, certificate, authorization permission, interpretation, appeal,
exception, exemption, building, land disturbance, or other activity
regulated by this chapter.
COLLECTOR STREET
A street that is designed to collect traffic from the minor
streets within a subdivision or a portion thereof and to distribute
such traffic to major thoroughfares; also designated as a main thoroughfare.
DEVELOPMENT
Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate,
including but not limited to buildings or other structures, placement
of manufactured homes, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving,
excavation or drilling operations or storage of equipment or materials.
EASEMENT
A strip of land for which the owner grants a right of use
to someone else for one or more designated purposes, which purposes
are consistent with the general property rights of the owner.
ENGINEER
An individual licensed to practice the profession of engineering
by the State of Delaware.
LOT
A designated parcel, tract, or area of land established either
by plat or subdivision, or considered as a unit of property by virtue
of a metes and bounds description, to be separately owned, used, developed,
or built upon.
MEDIAN
An area that can either be grass, landscaped or concrete
that separates two directions of traffic at an entrance or along a
street.
MINOR STREET
A street other than a collector street which is intended
primarily to provide access to abutting properties.
REVERSE FRONTAGE LOT
A lot extending between and having frontage on two generally
parallel streets; also referred to as "double frontage lot."
RIGHT-OF-WAY
Land occupied or intended to be occupied by a street, crosswalk,
railroad, electric transmission line, oil or gas pipeline, water main,
sanitary or storm sewer main, shade trees, or another special use.
STREET
Any vehicular way that is an existing state, county, or Town
roadway; is shown upon an approved plat; is approved by other official
action; or is shown on a plat duly filed and recorded in the Office
of the Kent County Recorder of Deeds prior to the appointment of the
Planning and Zoning Planning and Zoning Commission and the grant of
power to review plats. "Street" includes the land between the right-of-way
lines, whether improved or unimproved.
STREET, COLLECTOR
A street that collects traffic from local streets and connects
with minor and major arterials.
STREET, CUL-DE-SAC
A short, independent minor street having only one point of
ingress and egress, terminating in a circular turnaround or other
approved geometric termination.
SUBDIVISION
Any of the following:
A.
Division or partition of any tract or parcel of land into two
or more plots, parcels, units, lots, condominiums, tracts, sites,
or interests for the purpose of offer, sale, lease, or development,
whether immediate or future, either on an installment plan or upon
any other plans, terms, or conditions; or for any other purpose.
B.
Assemblage or consolidation of plots, parcels, units, lots,
condominiums, tracts, sites, or interests for the purpose of offer,
sale, lease, development, whether immediate or future; either on an
installment plan or upon any other plans, terms, or conditions; or
for any other purpose.
C.
Division or assemblage of land involving any of the following.
D.
Opening, widening, or extension of any streets or access easements.
E.
Extension of any electrical, sewer, water or any other utility
line.
F.
Condominium creation or conversion.
TOWN ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICIAL
An employee of the Town of Ocean View designated to be the
primary contact for any person interested in subdividing property.
TRACT
An area, parcel, site, piece of land, or property that is
the subject of a development application.