“Aggrieved person”
means:
1. 
The applicant or any person adversely affected by the decision;
2. 
Any governmental unit who is a party to or has submitted comments on any actions before the planning commission and contends the fulfilling of their governmental responsibilities are threatened by the action of the planning commission or assembly.
“Alley”
means a permanent service right-of-way providing a secondary access to abutting properties.
“Applicant” (subdivider)
means a person who holds any legal or equitable interest in land being subdivided. The term also includes all heirs, assigns, or successors in interest, or representatives of the applicant.
“Area”
means the total unit of land identified for action under this title for purposes of calculating intensities, densities, and land uses.
(S.G.C. 21.08.010; Ord. 03-1729 § 4, 2003)
“Block”
means an area of land within a subdivision that is entirely bounded by rights-of-way (other than alleys), physical barriers, and exterior boundaries of the subdivision.
“Block length”
means the distance between intersections of through streets, measured between the right-of-way lines of the intersecting streets, which distance is the longest dimension of a block.
“Boundary survey map”
is a map of the boundaries of a parcel.
(S.G.C. 21.08.020; Ord. 03-1729 § 4, 2003)
“Comprehensive plan”
means an official adopted document including text, charts, graphics or maps or any combination designed to portray general and long range proposals for the arrangement of land uses and development of an economic base and human resource and which is intended to guide development policy towards achieving orderly and coordinated development within the entire community.
“Crosswalk”
means a public right-of-way, 10 feet or more in width, which provides pedestrian passage through a street or within a block.
(S.G.C. 21.08.030; Ord. 03-1729 § 4, 2003)
“Dedication”
means the deliberate appropriation of land or rights in land by its owner for any general and public use, reserving to himself or herself no other rights than such as are compatible with the full exercise and enjoyment of the public use to which the property has been devoted. The intention to dedicate shall be evidenced by the owner by the presentation for filing of a final plat or short plat showing the dedication thereon; and the acceptance by the public shall be evidenced by the approval of such plat for filing by the city. A dedication by the owner under the terms of this section is a conveyance of an interest in property which shall be deemed to include the warranties of title listed in AS 34.15.030. The dedication of streets, alleys, sidewalks, or public open space shall convey a fee interest in the area dedicated. The dedication of all other public rights-of-way including utility rights-of-way shall be deemed to create an easement ingress to perform the indicated function in the area depicted.
(S.G.C. 21.08.040; Ord. 03-1729 § 4, 2003)
“Easement”
means an interest in land owned by another that entitles the easement holder to a specified limited use of said area of land.
“Engineer”
means a registered, professional, civil engineer authorized to practice engineering in the state of Alaska. Engineers perform the consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning, design, and inspection of private and public works, structures, or projects. Unless also qualified as a surveyor, an engineer may not engage in the preparation of subdivisions. (Cross-reference: AS 8.48.291.)
(S.G.C. 21.08.050; Ord. 03-1729 § 4, 2003; Ord. 15-14 § 4, 2015)
“Floodplain”
means that area of land adjoining the channel of a river, stream, or other similar body of water which may be inundated by a flood that can be reasonably expected to occur. The floodplain includes all the lands within the limits of the 100-year flood and the floodway within it if such floodway is delineated. The floodplain area is defined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
(S.G.C. 21.08.060; Ord. 03-1729 § 4, 2003)
“Legal access”
means access over a roadway meeting residential road standards, having a width of at least 20 feet and constructed in accordance with official construction standards approved by the municipality.
“Lot”
means a parcel of land shown as an individual unit on the most recent plat of record and intended for one principal building and/or use.
“Lot depth”
means the mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines.
“Lot frontage”
means all property abutting the right-of-way of a dedicated street, private road, or road easement, measured along the right-of-way between side lot lines of a lot.
“Lot width”
means the mean horizontal distance separating side lot lines on an individual lot.
(S.G.C. 21.08.120; Ord. 03-1729 § 4, 2003)
“Parcel” (or “tract”)
means a portion of subdivision having fixed boundaries, not including lots.
“Person”
means an individual, corporation, partnership, unincorporated association, or government agency.
“Planting strip”
means a strip of land between the roadway and the sidewalk or sidewalk site.
“PUD (planned unit development)”
means a group or combination of dwellings and uses developed as a functional unit under conditional use and site plan approval procedures, the plan of which may not conform to the regulations established in any one zone or more zoning districts with respect to lot size, types and mixture of uses, density, lot coverage, access or required open space.
(S.G.C. 21.08.160; Ord. 03-1729 § 4, 2003)
“Right-of-way”
means a strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a street, walkway, road, utilities, gas or oil pipeline, water main, sewer main, or for any other public purpose.
“Roadway”
means the portion of a street designated for vehicular traffic, and where curbs are laid, the portion between curbs.
(S.G.C. 21.08.180; Ord. 03-1729 § 4, 2003)
“Screening easement (buffer and landscape areas)”
means a strip or parcel of land for the purpose of insulating land uses against the adverse effects of adjacent land uses, designating access along arterial highways, providing a wind screen, filtering dust, muffling noise, deterring glare, and reducing soil erosion.
“Shall”
is synonymous with “will” and is always mandatory and not discretionary; the word “may” is permissive.
“Sidewalk”
means an improved right-of-way for pedestrian circulation that is part of the street right-of-way.
“Street”
means a right-of-way which provides for vehicular and pedestrian circulation.
1. 
“Cul-de-sac street”
means a short street intersecting with another street at one end and terminated by a vehicular turnaround at the other end, and which is not intended to be extended or continued to serve future subdivisions or adjacent land.
2. 
“Street width”
means the shortest distance between the lines delineating the right-of-way of streets.
3. 
“Stub street”
means a dead-end local street which provides for eventual extension of the street onto unplatted land.
4. 
“Arterial streets” and “highways”
are those which are used primarily for fast or heavy traffic.
5. 
“Collector streets”
are those which are designed and intended to carry traffic from minor streets to the major street system of arterial streets and highways, including the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation within the development.
6. 
“Minor streets”
also called “local access streets,” are those which are used primarily for access to abutting properties.
7. 
“Marginal access streets”
are minor streets which are parallel with and adjacent to arterial streets and highways, and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
“Structure”
means anything that is constructed or erected and located on or under the ground, or attached to something fixed to the ground not including utility poles and related ground, or pad-mounted equipment, residential fences less than six feet high, retaining walls, rockeries, and other similar improvements of a minor character less than three feet high.
“Subdivision”
means the division of a tract or parcel of land into two or more lots, sites, or other divisions (including short subdivisions) for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale, lease or building, or development, including any resubdivision and when appropriate to the context, the process of subdividing or the land subdivided.
“Surveyor”
means a professional land surveyor who is registered and has complied with the laws of the state of Alaska.
(S.G.C. 21.08.190; Ord. 03-1729 § 4, 2003)
“Unit (dwelling)”
means a structure or portion thereof containing a kitchen, living area, toilet, and sleeping accommodations, and designed as a unit to be occupied by no more than one family.
(S.G.C. 21.08.210; Ord. 03-1729 § 4, 2003)
“Zero lot line subdivision”
means a technique whereby parcels may be created that might not otherwise conform to minimum size standards and which allows two adjacent single-family housing units to share a common side or rear lot line and shall be provided one-hour fire rated assemblies on each side of the adjoining property line.
(S.G.C. 21.08.260; Ord. 03-1729 § 4, 2003; Ord. 12-31A § 4(B), 2012)