The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this division,
shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Contractor.
Any person or group of persons entering into an agreement
with the city.
Detour.
An alternate route in which vehicular traffic is directed
around a street which is closed.
Emergency.
An unforeseen combination of circumstances, or the resulting
state, that calls for immediate action.
Manual.
The Manual on Uniform Barricading Standards.
Permit.
A written letter of approval from the city manager or his
appointed representative.
Streets and alleys.
A traveled way for vehicular traffic, whether designated
as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, avenue,
boulevard, lane, place, or however otherwise designated.
(1)
Major thoroughfares or arterial streets.
Principal traffic arteries more or less continuous across
the city which are intended to connect remote parts of the city and
which are used primarily for fast or heavy volume traffic, and shall
include, but not be limited to, each street designated as a major
street on the major street plan.
(2)
Collector streets.
Those which carry traffic from minor streets to the major
system of arterial streets and highways, including the principal entrance
streets of a residential development and streets for circulation within
such a development.
(3)
Minor streets.
Those which are used primarily for access to abutting residential
properties which are intended to serve traffic within a limited residential
district.
(4)
Alleys.
Minor traveled ways which are used primarily for vehicular
service access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting
on a street.
(1999 Code, sec. 78-116)