For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(a) “City Engineer” means the City's Engineer.
(b) “Commission” means the City Planning Commission.
(c) “County” means the County of Coshocton, Ohio.
(d) “Developer” means any individual, firm, association, corporation, trust, or any other legal entity, including his agents, commencing proceedings under the regulations to effect a subdivision of land for himself or for another.
(e) “Easement” means a grant by the property owner for specified use of the land to a corporation, partnership, person, or to the public.
(f) “Improvements” means grading, storm sewers and other drainage facilities, streets, street pavement and curbs, sidewalks, landscaping, street signs, sanitary sewer and water systems, other public or private utility services, and any other facility or appurtenances which may be required by these regulations or other municipal, county or state law.
(g) “Lots.” Definitions applicable to lots shall be the same as those included in the City's Zoning Code, or as otherwise included in the County Subdivision Regulations.
(h) “Open space” means public or common land in a subdivision which is dedicated or permanently assigned to playground, park, or outdoor recreational uses.
(1) “Common land” means land in a subdivision designated in covenants or other conditions running with the land for permanent common use by the owners or occupants of private land therein.
(2) “Public land” means land in a subdivision which is offered for dedication and accepted by the City or other public body for a public use.
(i) “Plans” and “plats.”
(1) “Comprehensive plan” means a composite of the mapped and written proposals for the future development of the City, duly adopted and recorded by the Commission, indicating its recommendations for the uses of private land, public open spaces and buildings, and the general street system including the City's officially recorded Park and Recreation Plan and Thoroughfare Plan.
(2) “Improvement plan” means a plan prepared by a professional engineer showing all improvements required by these regulations.
(3) “Preliminary plan” means a drawing of a subdivision prepared by a professional engineer or surveyor showing the lines of each element by accurate distances and bearings, based on available record data, which may include explanatory exhibits and text, which, if approved by the Commission, provides the basis for proceeding with the preparation of the final plat and improvement plans for the subdivision.
(4) “Sketch plan” means a simple sketch of the proposed layout of streets, lots, and other features of a proposed subdivision in relation to existing conditions, including topography, prepared by the developer and submitted to the Commission for the purpose of obtaining the Commission's advice and assistance before preparation of the preliminary plan.
(5) “Subdivision plat” means the final drawing of a subdivision prepared by a professional engineer and surveyor showing the lines of each element by distances and bearings based on the conditionally approved preliminary plan of a proposed subdivision which is presented to the Commission for final approval and to Council for acceptance of dedications, and thereafter to the County Recorder for recording.
(6) “Regulations” means the subdivision regulations of the City.
(j) “Subdivision.”
(1) A subdivision is the division of any parcel of land shown as a unit or as contiguous units on the last preceding tax roll, into two or more parcels, sites, or lots, any one of which is less than five acres 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 a sale or exchange does not create additional building sites, shall be exempted; or
(2) The improvement of one or more parcels of land for residential, commercial, or industrial structures or groups of structures, involving the division or allocation of land for the opening, widening, or extension of any street, except private streets serving industrial structures; the division or allocation of land as 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 facilities.
A. “Major subdivision” means any subdivision other than a minor subdivision.
B. “Minor subdivision” means a division of a parcel of land that does not require a plat to be approved by a planning authority according to Ohio R.C. § 711.131. Also known as lot split.
(k) “Street” means an avenue, highway, road, thoroughfare, boulevard, parkway, alley, or other way proposed for vehicular traffic, and any existing state, county, township or City street or way shown on a plat heretofore duly approved, filed, and recorded in the office of the Recorder. Included is the land between the street right- of-way lines whether improved or unimproved, and may comprise pavement, shoulders, gutters, sidewalks, division strips, or other areas within the street lines. Streets shall be classified as follows:
(1) “Alley” means a street providing service access to the rear or side of properties abutting also on streets or thoroughfares.
(2) “Collector street” means a street supplementary to and connecting major streets to local streets and to district centers or neighborhoods.
(3) “Cul-de-sac” means a street with only one permanent outlet.
(4) “Limited access highway” means a strip of public land devoted to movement of traffic, not providing access to the abutting properties.
(5) “Local street” means a street primarily for access to abutting residential properties and to serve local needs.
(6) “Major street” means a street which is primarily for moving fast or heavy traffic between large or intensively developed districts.
(7) “Marginal access street” means a local street providing access to lots which abut or are adjacent to a limited-access highway or major street.
(8) “Right of way” means a strip of land measured between property lines, dedicated for use by the public.
(9) “Roadway” or “pavement” means a portion of a street available for vehicular traffic, including parking lanes.
(10) “Tree lawn” means the portion of a street right-of-way between edge of pavement or curb and public sidewalk or property line.
(Ord. 74-76. Passed 9-13-76.)