For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BLOCK. An area of land within a subdivision that is entirely bounded by streets or by streets and the exterior boundaries of the subdivision.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. The group of maps, charts and texts that make up the comprehensive long-range plan of the city.
DESIGN STANDARDS. The specifications to land owners or subdividers for the preparation of plats, both preliminary and final, indicating among other things the optimum, minimum or maximum dimensions of such items as right-of-way, blocks, easements and lots.
EASEMENT. A grant by a property owner for the use of a strip of land for the purpose of construction and maintaining utilities, including, but not limited to, sanitary sewers, water mains, electric lines, telephone lines, storm sewer or storm drainageways and gas lines.
FINAL PLAT. A drawing or map of a subdivision, meeting all the requirements of the city and in a form as required by the county for purposes of recording.
LOT. A portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land intended for building development or for transfer of ownership.
PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS. Public lands and open spaces in the city dedicated or reserved for and usable for recreation purposes.
PEDESTRIAN WAY. A public or private right-of-way across a block or within a block used by pedestrians and which may be used for the installation of utility lines.
PRELIMINARY PLAT. A tentative drawing or map of a proposed subdivision meeting requirements herein enumerated.
PROTECTIVE COVENANTS. Contracts made between private parties as to the manner in which land may be used, with the view to protecting and preserving the physical and economic integrity of any given area.
STREET. A public right-of-way affording primary access by pedestrians and vehicles to abutting properties, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway throughway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, place or however otherwise designated.
SUBDIVISION. A described tract of land which is to be or has been divided into two or more lots or parcels, any of which resultant parcels is less than two and one-half acres in area, for the purpose of
transfer of ownership or building development or, if a new street is involved, any division of a parcel of land. The term includes resubdivision and, where it is appropriate to the context, relates either to the process of subdividing or to the land subdivided.
(Prior Code, § 11.01)