Definitions. To the purpose of
these regulations, the terms used herein are defined as follows:
ALLEY
A minor way affording secondary access to properties which
otherwise abut on a street.
BLOCK
A tract of land bounded by streets or by a combination of
streets and public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights-of-way, shorelines
of waterways or boundary lines of municipalities.
BUILDING
Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls,
used or intended to be used for the shelter or enclosure of persons,
animals or property.
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.
EASEMENT
Authorization by a property owner for the use by another
and for a specified purpose of any designated part of his property.
FINAL PLAT
The map or plan or record of a subdivision and any accompanying
material as described in these regulations.
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.
LOT
A parcel of land occupied or to be occupied by one (1) main
building or group of buildings and the accessory buildings and the
uses customarily incident thereto, including such open spaces as are
required under this Chapter and having frontage upon a public street.
A lot, as used herein, may consist of one (1) or more platted lots
or tract or tracts as conveyed or parts thereof.
LOT, CORNER
A lot abutting upon two (2) or more streets at their intersection.
A corner lot shall be deemed to front on that street on which it has
its least dimension, unless otherwise specified by the Zoning Inspector.
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.
OWNER
Any person, group of 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.
PLANNED DEVELOPMENT
A tract of land which is developed as a unit under single
ownership or control and which includes two (2) or more main or principal
structures.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT
Any drainage ditch, roadway, parkway, sideway, pedestrian
way, tree, lawn, off-street parking area, 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.
RIGHT-OF-WAY
A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a
street, crosswalk, railroad, road, electric transmission line, oil
or gas pipeline, water main, sanitary or storm sewer main or for other
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 on 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 or 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 marker of the plat on which such
right-of-way is established.
ROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY WIDTH
The distance between property lines measured at right angles
to the centerline of the street.
SALE OR LEASE
Any immediate or future transfer of ownership, including
contract of sale or transfer, of an interest in a subdivision or part
thereof, whether such transfer is of fee simple title or some lesser
estate, including leasehold estate, and whether by metes and bounds,
deed, contract, plat, map or other written instrument.
SECONDARY THOROUGHFARES
A street which carries or is proposed to carry intermediate
volumes of traffic from minor streets to major streets and which may
or may not be continuous.
SETBACK
The distance between a building and the street line nearest
thereto.
STRUCTURE
Anything constructed or erected which requires permanent
or temporary location on or in the ground or is attached to something
having a location on the ground including, but without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, buildings, fences, gazebos, advertising
signs, billboards, backstops for tennis courts, radio and television
antennae, including supporting towers, and swimming pools but excepting
customary utility poles, retaining walls and boundary fences.
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 plot 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 plat 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 improved or unimproved or any portion thereof, shown
on the last preceding tax roll as a unit or as contiguous units, which
is divided into two (2) or more lots, plots, sites or other divisions
of land for the purpose of offering for sale, lease or development,
including resubdivision. "Subdivision" includes the
division or development of residential and non-residential zoned land,
including planned developments, whether by deed, metes and bounds
description, map, plat or other recorded instrument and the dedication,
opening or widening of any proposed or existing right-of-way for a
public or private street.
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 approval and which, if approved, may be submitted to
the County Recorder of Deeds for filing.
THOROUGHFARES
A street designed or utilized primarily for higher vehicular
speeds or for heavy volumes of traffic on a continuous route, with
intersections at grade and which may have direct access to abutting
properties and on which geometric design and traffic control measures
are used to expedite the safe movement of through traffic.