For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. A permanent service way providing a secondary means of access to abutting lands.
BLOCK. Property abutting on one side of a street, and lying between the two nearest intersecting or intercepting streets, or between the nearest intersecting or intercepting street and railroad right-of-way, waterway or other definite barrier.
BOULEVARD. A street, other than a freeway or an expressway, developed with two-land, one-way pavements separated by a landscaped island, median or barrier.
CITY. The City of Chrisman, Illinois.
CITY CLERK. The City Clerk of the City of Chrisman, Illinois.
CITY COUNCIL. The City Council of the City of Chrisman, Illinois.
CITY ROAD COMMISSIONER. An official employed by the City Council, under the Illinois Revised Statutes.
COUNTY HIGHWAY. Roads and streets maintained by the county.
CUL-DE-SAC, COURT or DEAD END STREET. A short street or highway having one end open to traffic and being permanently terminated by a vehicle turn-around.
DEVELOPER. Any person engaged in developing or improving a lot or group of lots or structures thereon for use or occupancy.
EASEMENT. A grant by the property owner of the use of a strip of land by the public, a corporation or persons for specified purposes.
ENGINEER. A professional engineer registered as such and licensed to practice in the state or qualified to practice as provided in the Illinois Revised Statutes.
IMPROVEMENT. Street pavements (with or without curb and gutter), public walkways, monuments, water mains, sanitary and storm sewers, street signs, culverts and appurtenances to the foregoing items and for use by the public.
JURISDICTIONAL AREA. The City of Chrisman, Illinois.
LOT. A portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land intended as a unit for development or transfer of ownership.
PERSON. A corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization or any other group acting as a unit, as well as a natural person.
PLACE. An open, unoccupied, officially-designated space other than a public street or alley, permanently reserved for use as the principal means of access to abutting property, having a turning circle of not less than 100 feet in diameter and not more than 100 feet in length measured from the edge of the intersecting road surface to the back of the turning circle.
PLAT, PRELIMINARY. A preliminary map, and supporting data, indicating the proposed layout of the subdivision in sufficient detail to provide adequate basis for the review by the County Plat Committee, meeting the requirements of these regulations.
ROAD DISTRICT ROAD. A road or street maintained by the township.
SETBACK LINE. A line marking the setback distance from the street line, which establishes a minimum distance between buildings and the street line.
STREET. A right-of-way, other than an alley, dedicated or otherwise legally established to the public use, usually affording the principal means of access to abutting property. A STREET may be designated as a highway, thoroughfare, parkway, boulevard, road, avenue, land, drive or other appropriate name.
STREET, ARTERIAL. A street designated for large volumes of traffic movement. Certain ARTERIAL STREETS may be classed as limited access highways to which entrances and exits are provided only at controlled intersections and access is denied to abutting properties.
STREET, FEEDER. A street planned to facilitate the collection of traffic from local streets, and to provide circulation within neighborhood areas and convenient ways for traffic to reach arterial streets.
STREET, LOCAL.
(1) A street designated primarily to provide access to abutting properties; and
(2) Marginal access streets are LOCAL STREETS designed and constructed parallel to arterial streets, which provide access to abutting property and ways for traffic to reach access points on arterial streets.
STRUCTURES. Anything human-made (i.e., signs, fences and the like).
SUBDIVIDER. Any person engaged in developing or improving a tract of land which complies with the definition of a “subdivision”, as defined in these regulations.
SUBDIVISION.
(1) The division of any parcel of land shown as a unit, as part of a unit or as contiguous units on the last preceding transfer of ownership thereof, into two or more parcels, sites or lots, any one of which is less than five acres in area, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership; provided, however, that, the division or partition of land into parcels of more than five acres not involving any new streets or easements of access, and the sale or exchange of parcels between adjoining lot owners, where such sale or exchange does not create additional building sites, shall not be considered a SUBDIVISION; or
(2) The improvement of one or more parcels of land for residential, commercial or industrial structures or groups of structures involving the subdivision and allocation of land as streets or other open spaces for common use by owners, occupants or lease holders or as easements for the extension and maintenance of public sewer, water, storm drainage or other public utilities and facilities.
SYSTEMS, WATER AND SEWER. Mains, lines and operational units.
“U” STREET. A short boulevard having one end permanently terminated by a vehicular turnaround.
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