The following words and phrases used in this chapter shall have the following meaning unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
OFF SITE FACILITIES: Facilities designed or located so as to serve other property outside of the boundaries of the subdivision; usually lying between the development and existing facilities.
ON SITE FACILITIES: Facilities installed within or on the perimeter of the subdivision.
OVERSIZE FACILITIES: Facilities with added capacity designed to serve other property, in addition to the land within the boundaries of the subdivision.
SUBDIVIDER; DEVELOPER: Any person laying out or making a subdivision.
SUBDIVISION: A. Any land that is divided, resubdivided or proposed to be divided into two (2) or more lots, parcels, sites, units, plots, or other division of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, for offer, sale, lease, or development either on the installment plan or upon any and all other plans, terms, and conditions.
B. Subdivision" includes:
1. The division or development of land whether by deed, metes and bounds description, devise and testacy, lease, map, plat, or other recorded instrument; and
2. Except as provided in subsection C of this definition, divisions of land for all residential and nonresidential uses, including land used or to be used for commercial, agricultural and industrial purposes.
C. "Subdivision" does not include:
1. A bona fide division or partition of agricultural land for the purpose of joining one of the resulting separate parcels to a contiguous parcel of unsubdivided agricultural land, if neither the resulting combined parcel nor the parcel remaining from the division or partition violates an applicable zoning ordinance;
2. A recorded agreement between owners of adjoining properties adjusting their mutual boundary if:
a. No new lot is created; and
b. The adjustment does not result in a violation of applicable zoning ordinances; or
3. A recorded document, executed by the owner of record, revising the legal description of more than one contiguous parcel of property into one legal description encompassing all such parcels of property.
D. The joining of a subdivided parcel of property to another parcel of property that has not been subdivided does not constitute a "subdivision" under this definition as to the unsubdivided parcel of property or subject the unsubdivided parcel to the city's subdivision ordinance. (Ord. 4-11-79A, 4-24-1979; amd. Ord. 1-13-93B, 1-13-1993; 2004 Code)