[Ord. No. 2480, 5-8-2023]
Definitions for the interpretation of these rules and regulations
are as follows:
The use of a tract of land of not less than five (5) acres
for the growing of crops, pasturage, nursery, or the raising of livestock
and poultry, including the structures necessary for carrying out farming
operations and the residence or residences of those owning or operating
the premises, a member of the family thereof, or persons employed
thereon, and the family thereof, but such use shall not include feedlots.
A public or private right-of-way which affords only a secondary
means of access to abutting property.
A street serving major traffic movements, designed primarily
as a traffic carrier between various sections of the City, and which
forms part of the through-street network.
A piece or parcel of land entirely surrounded by public highway,
streets, streams, railroad rights-of-way, or parks, etc., or a combination
thereof.
Any street designed primarily for the purpose of gathering
traffic from local or residential streets and carrying it to the major
street system.
A street having one (1) end open to traffic and being permanently
terminated by a vehicular turnaround.
The location of streets, alignment of streets, grades and
widths of streets, alignment of easements, grades and widths of easements,
alignment and rights-of-way for drainage and sanitary sewers, and
the designation of minimum lot area, width and length.
A grant by the property owner to the public, a corporation,
or persons, of the use of a strip of land for specific purposes.
The individual designated by the Board of Aldermen to provide
professional engineering services, or to otherwise administer certain
provisions of these Regulations.
A plan or map prepared in accordance with the provisions
of these Regulations and those of any other applicable local regulation,
which plat is prepared to be placed on record in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of the County in which any part of the subdivision
is located.
The elected Board of Aldermen of the City of Plattsburg.
Street work and utilities that are to be installed, or agreed
to be installed by the subdivider on the land to be used for public
or private use of the lot owners in the subdivision and local neighborhood
traffic and drainage needs, as a condition precedent to the approval
and acceptance of the final plat or filing of the record of the survey
map thereof.
A street or road which provides primarily for direct access
to adjoining properties and is designed to serve minor traffic needs.
A portion of land in a subdivision, or other parcel of land,
intended as a unit for transfer of ownership or for development.
A street, highway, or roadway designated as such on the official
Major Street Plan.
A minor street which is generally parallel to or adjacent
to a major traffic thoroughfare, highway, or railroad right-of-way
and provides access to abutting properties.
A right-of-way dedicated to public use, which cuts across
a block to facilitate pedestrian access to adjacent streets and properties.
That area on a map prepared and maintained for or by the
Planning Commission describing the planning area limits.
The City of Plattsburg Planning Commission, unless otherwise
specified.
A map made for the purpose of showing the design of a proposed
subdivision and the existing conditions in and around it; this map
need not be based on accurate or detailed final survey of the property.
Secretary of the Planning Commission.
A line on a plat generally parallel to the street right-of-way,
indicating the limit beyond which buildings or structures may not
be erected or altered except as otherwise provided in the Zoning Regulations.
A right-of-way, dedicated to the public use, which provides
principal vehicular and pedestrian access to adjacent properties.
A person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association
who causes land to be divided into a subdivision for himself/herself
or for others.
The division of a tract of land into two (2) or more lots
or parcels for the purpose of transfer of ownership or building development,
or, if a new street is involved, any division of a parcel of land.
The term "subdivision" includes "re-subdivision," and the term "re-subdivision"
as used herein shall include any further subdivision of a lot or parcel
of land previously subdivided, for sale, use, or other purposes, which
varies from the latest approved subdivision of the same.
Individual designated by the Board of Aldermen to administer
these Regulations.
[Ord. No. 2480, 5-8-2023]
A.
For the purpose of this Regulation, the following rules shall apply:
1.
Words and numbers used singularly shall include the plural and
the plural, the singular. Words used in the present tense shall include
the future.
2.
The word "persons" includes a corporation, members of a partnership
or other business organization, a committee, board, trustee, receiver,
agent or other representative.
3.
The word "shall" is mandatory.
4.
The word "use," "used," "occupy" or "occupied" as applied to
any land or building shall be construed to include the words "intended,"
"arranged" or "designed" to be used or occupied.
