Words And Terms Defined. As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have these prescribed
meanings:
10-YEAR FLOOD
A flood having a ten percent (10%) chance of occurrence in
any given year.
10-YEAR STORM
A rainstorm of a given duration and depth of precipitation
having a ten percent (10%) chance of occurrence in any given year.
100-YEAR FLOOD
A flood having a one percent (1%) chance of occurrence in
any given year. The 100-year flood is assumed to be caused by a 100-year
storm.
100-YEAR STORM
A rainstorm of a given duration and depth of precipitation
having a one percent (1%) chance of occurrence in any given year.
ALLEY
A public or private right-of-way primarily designed to serve
as secondary access to the side or rear of those properties whose
principal frontage is on some other street.
APPLICANT
The owner of land proposed to be subdivided or his representative.
Consent shall be required from the legal owner of the premises.
BLOCK
A tract of land bounded by streets or by a combination of
streets and public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights-of-way, shorelines
or waterways, or boundary lines of municipalities.
BOND
Any form of security including a cash deposit, surety bond,
collateral, property or instrument of credit in an amount and form
satisfactory to the Board of Aldermen. All bonds shall be approved
by the Board of Aldermen wherever a bond is required in these regulations.
BUILDING
Any structure built for the support, shelter or enclosure
of persons, animals, chattels or moveable property of any kind and
includes any structure.
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM
A proposed schedule of all future projects listed in order
of construction priority together with cost estimates and the anticipated
means of financing each project. All major projects requiring the
expenditures of public funds, over and above the annual City operating
expenses, for the purchase, construction or replacement of the physical
assets for the community are included.
CENTRAL SEWERAGE SYSTEM
A community sewer system including collection and treatment
facilities established by the developer to serve a new subdivision
in an outlying area.
CENTRAL WATER SYSTEM
A private water company formed by a developer to serve a
new community development in an outlying area. It includes water treatment
and distribution facilities.
CITY
The City of Platte City, Missouri.
CITY ATTORNEY
The City Attorney or such licensed attorney designated by
the Board of Aldermen to furnish legal assistance for the administration
of these regulations.
CITY ENGINEER
The City Engineer or other such person as shall be appointed
by the Board of Aldermen to administer these regulations.
CITY STREET PLAN
The plan established by the City pursuant to Chapter 89,
RSMo., showing the streets, highways, parks, drainage systems and
setback lines theretofore laid out, adopted and established by law
and any amendments or additions thereto resulting from the approval
of subdivision plats by the Planning Commission and the subsequent
filing of such approved plats.
COLLECTOR ROADS
A road intended to move traffic from local roads to secondary
arterials. A collector road serves a neighborhood or large subdivision
and should be designed so that no residential properties face onto
it.
CONSTRUCTION PLAN
The maps or drawings accompanying a subdivision plat and
showing the specific location and design of improvements to be installed
in a subdivision in accordance with the requirements of the Planning
Commission as a condition of the approval of said plat.
CUL-DE-SAC
A local street with only one (1) outlet and having an appropriate
terminal for the safe and convenient reversal of traffic movement.
DAM
An artificial barrier or embankment having greater than six
(6) feet difference in elevation between the crest of the emergency
spillway and the lowest point in the cross section taken along the
centerline of the dam, which does or may impound water.
DETENTION BASIN
Any manmade area or structure which serves as a means of
temporarily storing stormwater runoff.
DETENTION STORAGE
The temporary detaining or storage of stormwater on or beneath
the ground surface, on rooftops, parking lots or by other means under
predetermined or controlled conditions.
DEVELOPMENT
Any change in land use or improvement on any parcel of land.
DISCHARGE
The rate of outflow of water from detention storage.
DRAINAGE AREA
The geographical area contributing stormwater runoff to a
point under consideration; i.e., a watershed, tributary area or catchment
area.
DRY BOTTOM BASIN
A detention basin or facility not intended to have a permanent
pool.
EASEMENT
Authorization by a property owner for the use by another,
and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his property.
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
The person (and his duly authorized assistants) appointed
to the Codes Enforcement/Building Inspector position and shall enforce
the Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Regulations of the City and to
administratively assist other City Boards or Commissions.
ESCROW
A deposit of cash with the City in lieu of an amount required
and still in force on a performance or maintenance bond. Such escrow
funds shall be deposited by the Enforcement Officer in a separate
account.
FINAL PLAT
The map or plan or record of a subdivision and any accompanying
material, as described in these regulations.
FLOODPLAIN
The channel of a river or stream or lake or other body of
water and the land adjacent thereto, regardless of physical obstructions,
which is subject to inundation in the event of a regulatory flood.
FREEBOARD
The difference in elevation between the design water surface
in the detention facility and the elevation at which uncontrolled
overtopping of the facility begins.
FRONTAGE
That side of a lot abutting on a street or way and ordinarily
regarded as the front of the lot, but it shall not be considered as
the ordinary side of a corner lot.
FRONTAGE STREET
Any street to be constructed by the developer or any existing
street in which development shall take place on both sides.
GRADE
The slope of a road, street or other public way, specified
in percentage (%) terms.
HIGH DENSITY
Those residential zoning districts in which the density is
equal to or greater than one (1) dwelling unit per fifteen thousand
(15,000) square feet.
HIGHWAY LIMITED ACCESS
A freeway or expressway providing a trafficway for through
traffic, in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting property
or lands and other persons have no legal right of access to or from
same, except at such points and in such manner as may be determined
by the public authority having jurisdiction over such trafficway.
HYDROGRAPH
Flow rate distribution of a stormwater runoff with respect
to time at the point under consideration or of detention basin outflow.
HYETOGRAPH
Intensity distribution of a rainfall event with respect to
time.
IMPROVEMENTS
See "LOT IMPROVEMENT" or "PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS".
INDIVIDUAL SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
A septic tank, seepage tile sewage disposal system or any
other sewage treatment device approved by the City Health Officer,
the Missouri State Water Pollution Board and the City Engineer.
LOT
A tract, plot or portion of a subdivision or other parcel
of land intended as a unit for the purpose, whether immediate or future,
of transfer of ownership or for building development.
LOT, CORNER
A lot situated at the intersection of two (2) streets, the
interior angle of such intersection not exceeding one hundred thirty-five
degrees (135°).
LOT IMPROVEMENT
Any building, structure, place, work of art or other object
or improvement of the land on which they are situated constituting
a physical betterment of real property or any part of such betterment.
Certain lot improvements shall be properly bonded as provided in these
regulations.
LOT SPLIT
The division, into two (2) or more parcels, plots, sites
or units, of an established and legally approved or recorded subdivision
lot for the purpose of offer, sale, lease or development.
MASTER PLAN
A Comprehensive Plan for development of the City prepared
and adopted by the Planning Commission, pursuant to Chapter 89, RSMo.,
and includes any part of such plan or parts thereof.
MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL
The Planning Agency established for the Metropolitan Kansas
City Region to carry on comprehensive planning. The official title
of such agency is Mid-America Regional Council.
MODEL HOME
A dwelling unit initially for display purposes which typifies the type of units that will be constructed in the subdivision. Such dwelling units may be erected, at the discretion of the Planning Commission, by permitting a portion of a major subdivision involving no more than two (2) lots to be created according to the procedures for minor subdivisions, as set out in Section
410.190 of these regulations.
MUNICIPALITY
For the purposes of these regulations, any City, township,
village or County established pursuant to the Revised Statutes of
Missouri.
NEIGHBORHOOD PARK AND RECREATION IMPROVEMENT FUND
A special fund established by the Board of Aldermen to retain
monies contributed by developers in accordance with the "money in
lieu of land" provisions of these regulations within reasonable proximity
of the land to be subdivided so as to be of local use to the future
residents of said subdivision.
NON-RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION
A subdivision whose intended use is other than residential,
such as commercial or industrial. Such subdivision shall comply with
the applicable provisions of these regulations.
OFF-SITE
Any premises not located within the area of the property
to be subdivided whether or not in the same ownership of the applicant
for subdivision.
OPEN SPACE
That space remaining on a lot which is not occupied by buildings,
structures, parking areas or driveways and which is either landscaped
with shrubs or planted with grass. That area which is used for intensive
recreation purposes such as playground equipment or organized activities
is not to be considered as open space.
OWNER
Any person, group or persons, firm or firms, corporation
or corporations or any other legal entity having legal title to or
sufficient proprietary interest in the land sought to be subdivided
under these regulations.
PERIMETER STREET
Any existing street to which the parcel of land to be subdivided
abuts on only one (1) side.
PLANNING COMMISSION
The City Planning Commission established in accordance with
Chapter 89, RSMo.
PRELIMINARY PLAT
The preliminary drawing or drawings, described in these regulations,
indicating the proposed manner or layout of the subdivision to be
submitted to the Planning Commission for approval.
PROBABLE MAXIMUM PRECIPITATION
An estimate of the greatest theoretical depth of precipitation
for a given duration over a particular drainage area. Values of PMP
for various durations and areas are given in Hydrometeorological Report
No. 51, Probable Maximum Precipitation Estimates, United States East
of the 105th Meridian, published by the U.S. Department of Commerce,
June 1978.
PROJECT
Any development involving the construction, reconstruction
or improvement of structures and/or grounds.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT
Any drainage ditch, roadway, parkway, sidewalk, pedestrian
way, tree, lawn, off-street parking areas, lot improvement or other
facility for which the City may ultimately assume the responsibility
for maintenance and operation of which may affect an improvement for
which City responsibility is established. All such improvements shall
be properly bonded.
RESUBDIVISION
A change in a map of an approved or recorded subdivision
plat if such change affects any street layout shown on such map or
area reserved thereon for public use, or any lot line; or if it affects
any map or plan legally recorded prior to the adoption of any regulations
controlling subdivisions.
RIGHT-OF-WAY
A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a
street, crosswalk, railroad, road, electrical transmission line, oil
or gas pipeline, water main, sanitary storm sewer main or for another
special use. The usage of the term "right-of-way" for land platting purposes shall mean that every right-of-way hereafter
established and shown of a final plat is to be separate and distinct
from the lots or parcels adjoining such right-of-way and not included
within the dimensions of areas of such lots or parcels. Rights-of-way
intended for streets, crosswalks, water mains, sanitary sewers, storm
drains or any other use involving maintenance by a public agency shall
be dedicated to public use by the maker of the plat on which such
right-of-way is established.
ROAD, DEAD END
A road or a portion of a street with only one (1) vehicular-traffic
outlet.
ROADS, CLASSIFICATION
For the purpose of providing for the development of the street,
highways, roads and rights-of-way in the City and for their future
improvement, reconstruction, realignment and necessary widening, including
provision for curbs and sidewalks, each existing street, highway,
road and right-of-way, and those located on approved and filed plats,
have been designated on the City Street Plan of the City and classified
therein. The classification of each street, highway, road and right-of-way
is based upon its location in the respective zoning districts of the
City and its present and estimated future traffic volume and its relative
importance and function as specified in the Master Plan of the City.
The required improvements shall be measured as set forth for each
street classification on the City Street Plan.
SALE OR LEASE
Any immediate or future transfer of ownership, including
contract of sale or transfer, or an interest in a subdivision or part
thereof, whether by metes or bounds, deed, contract, plat, map or
other written instrument.
SAME OWNERSHIP
Ownership by the same person, corporation, form, entity,
partnership or unincorporated association; or ownership by different
corporations, firms, partnerships, entities or unincorporated associations,
in which a stockholder, partner or associate or a member of his family
owns an interest in each corporation, firm, partnership, entity or
unincorporated association.
SCREENING
Either:
1.
A strip of at least ten (10) feet wide, densely planted (or
having equivalent natural growth) with shrubs and trees at least four
(4) feet high at the time of planting, of a type that will form a
year-round dense screen at least six (6) feet high, or
2.
An opaque wall or barrier or uniformly painted fence at least
six (6) feet high.
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Either (1) or (2) shall be maintained in good condition at all
times and may have no signs affixed to or hung in relation to the
outside thereof except the following: For each entrance, one (1) directional
arrow with the name of the establishment with "For Patrons Only" or
like limitation, not over two (2) square feet in area, which shall
be non-illuminated. Where required in the district regulations, a
screen shall be installed along or within the lines of a plot as a
protection to adjoining or nearby properties.
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SETBACK
The distance between a building and the street line nearest
thereto.
SHADE TREE
A tree in a public place, street or special easement adjoining
a street as provided in these regulations.
STORMWATER RUNOFF
Waters derived from precipitation falling within a drainage
area, flowing over the surface of the ground or collected in channels
or conduits.
STREET, MAJOR
A street providing through traffic movement between areas
and across the City and direct access to abutting property, subject
to necessary control of entrances, exists and curb use. Major streets
are identified on the major street plan and are given a functional
designation as either "primary" or "secondary" arterials.
STREET, PERIMETER
Existing traveled roadways whether improved to City standards
or not and with or without dedicated rights-of-way and located along
the periphery of the proposed development.
STREET, PRIVATE
A roadway or street used for internal vehicular circulation
within a development, which has been identified as such on the development
plan or preliminary plat and is located within the access easement
recorded on the plat.
STRUCTURE
Any construction above or below ground.
SUBDIVIDER
Any person who:
1.
Having an interest in land, causes it, directly or indirectly,
to be divided into a subdivision or who,
2.
Directly or indirectly, sells, leases or develops or offers
to sell, lease or develop or advertises for sale, lease or development,
any interest, lot, parcel, site, unit or plat in a subdivision or
who,
3.
Engages directly or through an agent in the business of selling,
leasing, developing or offering for sale, lease or development, a
subdivision or any interest, lot, parcel, site, unit or plot in a
subdivision and who,
4.
Is directly or indirectly controlled by or under direct or indirect
common control, with any of the foregoing.
SUBDIVISION
Any land, vacant or improved, which is divided or proposed
to be divided into two (2) or more lots, parcels, sites, units, plots
or interests of less than five (5) acres, for the purpose of offer,
sale, lease or development, either on the installment plan or upon
any and all other plans, terms and conditions, including resubdivision. "Subdivision" includes the division or development of residential
and non-residential zoned land, whether by deed, metes and bounds
description, map, plat or other recorded instrument and further includes
the creation of a condominium, town home or any other division of
property into units and common elements.
SUBDIVISION AGENT
Any person who represents or acts for or on behalf of, a
subdivider or developer, in selling, leasing or developing or offering
to sell, lease or develop any interest, lot, parcel, unit, site or
plot in a subdivision, except an attorney-at-law whose representations
of another person consists solely of rendering legal services and
who has not other interest, direct or indirect, in the subdivision.
SUBDIVISION PLAT
The final map or drawing, described in these regulations,
on which the subdivider's plan of subdivision is presented to the
Planning Commission for recommendation and which, if approved by the
Board of Aldermen, shall be submitted to the Platte County Recorder
of Deeds for filing.
WET BOTTOM BASIN
A detention basin intended to have a permanent pool. Also
called a "retention basin".
ZONING ORDINANCE
The official zoning ordinance of the City, together with
any and all amendments thereto, adopted pursuant to Chapter 89, RSMo.