For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates, or requires, a different meaning.
ALLEY. A public thoroughfare, which affords only secondary means of vehicular access to abutting property, and not less than 20 or more than 30 feet in width.
BLOCK. Property abutting on one side of a street and lying between the two nearest intersecting and intercepting streets, or nearest intersecting or intercepting street and railroad right-of-way or waterway.
BUILDING SET BACK LINE. The line nearest the front and across a lot establishing the minimum open space to be provided between the front of buildings and structures and the front lot line.
COMMISSION. The Town Plan Commission.
COUNTY. The County of Marshall, Indiana.
LOT. A portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land intended as a unit for transfer of ownership or for development.
MASTER PLAN. The complete plan, or any of its parts, for the development of the town, prepared by the Commission and legally adopted.
PLAT. A map or chart indicating the subdivision or re-subdivision of land, intended to be filed for record.
STREET. A public thoroughfare, whether designated as a street, highway, parkway, road, avenue, lane, boulevard, or however otherwise designated, 50 feet or more in width between property lines, which affords principal means of vehicular access to abutting property.
SUBDIVISION. A division of a lot, tract, or parcel of land into two or more immediate lots or other divisions of land for the purpose, immediate or future, of transfer of ownership or development, including all changes in street or lot lines. Divisions of land for agricultural purposes in parcels of five or more acres, not involving any new street or easement of access, shall not be interpreted as a SUBDIVISION. The term includes RESUBDIVISION, and, when appropriate to the context, shall relate to the process of sub-dividing or to the land subdivided; provided, however, that this definition shall not include the first two recorded lots less than five acres in area, subsequently divided from a lot, tract, or parcel of land recorded in office of the County Recorder, prior to July 1, 1974; the number of lots eligible for exemption under this provision shall not be increased by subsequent changes in ownership since the number of exempt lots shall run with the land and not with the ownership. This definition shall apply further after two lots have been divided by any person, or persons, from the parcel as described on record prior to July 1, 1974.
(Prior Code, § 8.4.1B)
TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION. The unincorporated portions of land under the planning jurisdiction of the Town Plan Commission.
THOROUGHFARE PLAN. The part of the Master Plan which sets forth the location, alignment, and dimensions of existing and proposed public streets, highways, and other thoroughfares.
(Prior Code, § 8.4.1)