In addition to the definitions in other sections of this Code, the following definitions are applicable to this Subdivision Ordinance:
ABSORPTION AREA: The trench area required to adequately dissipate the liquid waste water being discharged to a seepage field.
ALLEY: A public right of way primarily designed to serve as access to the side or rear of those properties whose principal frontage is on a street.
AREA SERVICE ROAD: A street which accommodates relatively high volumes of local and nonlocal traffic over short to medium distances at slower speeds.
BEARING STRENGTH: The amount of weight an area is capable of supporting.
BLOCK: A tract of land bounded by streets or by a combination of streets, public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights of way, bulkhead lines or shorelines, waterways or the corporate limits of the Village.
CLAY: A fine soil that is highly plastic. It contains soil particles of less than 0.002 mm in diameter.
CLAYEY SOILS: Those soils consisting predominantly of clay or soils having properties similar to clay.
COMMISSION: The Plan Commission of the Village of Barrington Hills, Illinois.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: Collectively those documents and ordinances of the Village relating plans for land use, community facilities, streets and land development.
COMPRESSIBILITY: Pertains to the susceptibility of a supporting structure to decrease in volume when subjected to loads.
CROSSWALK (PEDESTRIAN WAY): A public right of way within a block, twelve feet (12') or more in width, intended for pedestrians but which may include utilities where necessary, and from which motor propelled vehicles are excluded.
CUL-DE-SAC: A local residential street with only one outlet and having an appropriate terminal for the safe and convenient reversal of traffic movement.
CURB AND GUTTER: The Portland cement concrete section used to border the edge of each side of the street section.
CURTAIN DRAIN: Pipes, ditches, mounds or other means which redirect surface or ground water away from areas which better suit their proposed use when in a dry state.
EASEMENT: A grant by a property owner for the use of a strip or area of land by the general public, a corporation or certain persons for a specific purpose or purposes.
EASEMENT, SLOPE: An easement which allows the village or its agents to enter one's property to construct a side slope from a roadway, shoulder or other project, and restore the slope upon completion of the project with sod, grass or other material, and to maintain the slope.
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: The person approved by the village board of trustees designed to enforce the subdivision regulations of the village.
EQUESTRIAN: Of or relating to horse or pony riding.
EQUESTRIAN TRAIL: A right of way or easement across, within, or on the border of a subdivision, for use by equestrian traffic whether designated as an equestrian trail, crosswalk or however otherwise designated.
FINAL APPROVAL: As that term is used in section 6-5-5 of this title, is the approval statement required from the village engineer prior to consideration by the village board of trustees of approval of private improvements or of acceptance of public improvements.
FINAL PLAT: The map or plan of record of a subdivision, and any accompanying material, as described in chapter 3 of this title.
FOUNDATION: The substructure, including masonry walls, piers, footings, piles, grillage and similar construction, which is designed to transmit the load of any superimposed structure to natural solid or bedrock.
FREEWAY: A street which carries high speed traffic in order to divert long distance traffic around the BACOG area.
FRONTAGE: The length of the front property line of the lot, lots or tract of land abutting a public street, road, highway or rural right of way.
FROST HEAVE: The raising of a surface due to the freezing of water in the underlying soil structure.
GRADE: The slope of a road, street or other public way, specified in percent (%) and shown on street profile plans as required herein.
GROUND WATER LEVEL: The free subsurface water lying along the water table which is the upper limit of saturation within the soil structure. For purposes of this title, only the upper twenty feet (20') of the soil structure need be considered.
LAND APPLICATION WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM: A wastewater treatment system, serving more than one single-family residence or one or more nonresidential buildings with a combined floor area of greater than ten thousand (10,000) square feet, which involves the aerosol discharge of wastewater to land rather than to either a subsurface seepage field or surface water.
LOAM: The textural class name for soil having a moderate amount of sand, silt and clay.
LOT: A portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land intended for transfer of ownership or for building development.
LOT, BUTT OR KEY: A lot at the end of a block and located between two (2) corner lots.
LOT, CORNER: A lot situated at the intersection of two (2) streets.
LOT, THROUGH: A lot having a pair of opposite lot lines along two (2) substantially parallel streets, and which is not a corner lot.
MINERAL SOIL: A soil consisting predominantly of, and having its properties determined predominantly by, mineral matter; usually contains less than twenty percent (20%) organic material.
ORGANIC SOILS: Soils that contain a high percentage (greater than 20 or 30 percent) of organic matter.
OWNER: Any person, group of persons, firm or firms, corporation or corporations or any other legal entity having legal title to the land sought to be subdivided under this Title.
PARKWAY: An unpaved strip of land situated within the public right of way of a street.
P.C.: A point of curvature.
PEAT: Unconsolidated soil material consisting largely of undecomposed or only slightly decomposed, organic matter accumulated under conditions of excessive moisture.
PEDESTRIAN WAY: (See CROSSWALK)
PERMEABILITY: The capacity for transmitting a fluid. It is measured by the rate at which a fluid of standard viscosity can move through material in a given interval of time under a given hydraulic gradient.
PRELIMINARY PLAT: The drawings and documents described in Chapter 2 of this Title.
PRIVATE ACCESS: A means of ingress and egress for only one lot on, over and across an easement or a portion of a lot of record that begins at the right-of-way line of a public or private street and terminates at a location selected by the user of said private access, and is not governed by the standards set forth in Chapter 4 of this Title.
PRIVATE IMPROVEMENT: Includes streets and highways, alleys, ways for public service facilities, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, landscaping, street lights, storm water drainage, water supply and distribution, sanitary sewers and sewage collection and treatment facilities given final approval by the Village Engineer and the Board of Trustees but maintained by a private landowner or owners or a homeowners' association.
PRIVATE STREET: A street that is maintained by the party or parties using or having a right to use it.
P.T.: Point of tangent.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT: Includes streets and highways, alleys, public grounds, ways for public service facilities, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, landscaping, street lights, parks, playgrounds, school grounds, storm water drainage, water supply and distribution, sanitary sewers and sewage collection and treatment facilities given final approval by the Village Engineer and accepted by the Board of Trustees for public maintenance.
PUBLIC STREET: A street that is maintained by a municipality, township, county or the state.
P.V.C.: Point of vertical curvature.
REGIONAL HIGHWAY: A street, which carries, or that planning evidence indicates will carry, a large volume of traffic in order to divert medium-distance through traffic around individual villages.
RIGHT OF WAY: A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a road, sidewalk, railroad, electric transmission line, oil or gas pipe line, water main, sanitary sewer or storm sewer or for other special uses. 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 record 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, provided the size of the lot for zoning purposes shall be determined by the zoning regulations of the Village. Rights of way intended for streets, sidewalks, water mains, sanitary sewers, storm sewers or any other uses involving future 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.
ROADWAY: (See STREET)
SERVICE DRIVE (ACCESS STREET): A public street, generally paralleling and contiguous to a regional or area highway, primarily designed to promote safety by reducing ingress and egress to the right of way and providing safe and orderly points of access at fairly uniformly spaced intervals.
SHOULDER: That earthen portion of the street within the right of way parallel to, but exclusive of, the surface width, which earthen portion is used for lateral support of base and surface courses.
SIDEWALK: That portion of a public right of way paved or otherwise surfaced, intended for pedestrian use only.
SOIL MAP: A map showing the distribution of soil types or other soil mapping units in relation to the prominent physical and cultural features of the earth's surface.
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE MAP: The soils map prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.
SOIL SURVEY: The systematic examination, description, classification and mapping of soils in an area.
STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS: Public improvement construction standards as adopted by the Village.
STREET: The paved portion of a public or private right of way, including curbs, which affords a primary means of vehicular access to abutting properties, whether designated as a street, avenue, highway, road, boulevard, lane, throughway or however otherwise designated.
STREET, COLLECTOR: A public street which distributes local traffic between local minor streets and area service roads, discourages use by through traffic, does not extend across area service roads and serves not more than four hundred (400) dwelling units.
STREET, MARGINAL ACCESS: A minor street which is parallel to and adjacent to a regional or area highway, and which provides access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
STREET, MINOR: A public or private street which carries local traffic to collector streets, does not serve more than fifty (50) dwelling units and is not contiguous with streets of adjacent areas.
SUBDIVIDER (DEVELOPER): Any person or corporation or duly authorized agent of the landowner who undertakes the subdivision of land as defined herein.
SUBDIVISION: Shall mean:
(A) The division or redivision of a tract of land into two (2) or more lots, tracts or parcels by means of platting, conveyance (including a conveyance by metes and bounds), change or rearrangement of boundaries or otherwise, for the purpose, either immediate or future, of sale or building development; or
(B) The establishment of public streets, ways or other areas for the use of the public, or private streets or easements for the use of persons entitled to the use thereof.
SUBDIVISION DESIGN STANDARDS: The standards detailed in Chapter 4 of this Title with which all subdivisions must comply.
SUBDIVISION, MAJOR: Any subdivision containing more than five (5) lots.
SUBDIVISION, MINOR: Any subdivision containing not more than five (5) lots.
SURFACE WIDTH: The shortest distance between the faces of parallel curbs on streets with curbs and gutters, or between the outer parallel limits of the paved portion of streets without curbs and gutters, exclusive of shoulders.
USGS: The United States geological survey.
WET SOILS: Soils frequently or continuously water logged with subsurface water conditions which produce excessive or abnormal hydrostatic pressures on building foundations or other structures.
WETLAND: A transitional area between terrestrial and aquatic systems where the water table is usually at or near the surface or the land is covered by shallow water. Wetlands generally include, but are not limited to, areas with hyrdophytes in hydric soils such as those commonly known as marshes, swamps, bogs and fens.
ZONING ORDINANCE: Title 5 of this code, as amended. (Ord. 93-5, 5-24-1993; amd. Ord. 94-5, 4-25-1994; Ord. 04-19, 12-20-2004; Ord. 05-02, 6-17-2005)