The following words and phrases shall be as defined below:
“Alley” means a public or private right-of-way which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.
“Arterial” means a principal traffic artery, more or less continuous across the city, which acts as a principal connecting street with state and federal highways and includes each street designated as an arterial street on the major street plan.
“Basement” means any story located below the main floor.
“Building” means any structure having a roof, supported by columns or walls, for shelter or enclosure of persons or property.
“City” means The city of Custer, South Dakota.
“City specifications” means the city specifications of the city, which have been adopted by the city council.
“Collector” means a street which carries traffic from local streets/roads to arterial streets or highways, including the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation in such development.
“Comprehensive plan” means any legally adopted part or element of the comprehensive plan of the city.
“Cul-de-sac” means a local street with only one outlet having an appropriate terminal for safe and convenient reversal of traffic movement.
“Dedicated” means a grant of land to the public for their perpetual use.
“Developer” means the person who converts raw land into legally platted, buildable lots. The developer may or may not be the owner of the parcel or the builder of the structures which occupy the lots.
“Double frontage” means a lot which abuts a street on two opposite sides (not a corner lot).
“Easement” means authorization by a property owner for the use by another, and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of the property.
“Frontage road” means a street used only for access to abutting property where there will be constructed an expressway or arterial street.
“Local street” means a street intended to provide access to other streets from individual properties and to provide right-of-way beneath it for various utilities but not intended to be used for through traffic.
“Lot” means a tract, plot or portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land intended as a unit.
“Lowest floor” means the lowest floor of the lowest enclosed area (including basement), but not including an unfinished crawl space used for access.
“Main floor” means the lowest story in which more than six feet lies above grade for more than fifty (50) percent of the perimeter or in which any point is more than twelve (12) feet above grade.
“Major drainageway” means the main corridor for stormwater flow through developments. Major drainageways are identified as intermittent streams on USGS quadrangle maps, or as otherwise approved by the city engineer.
“Major street plan” means the major street plan adopted through the comprehensive planning process as approved by the city council.
“Mutual access easement” means an easement granting the perpetual right of abutting property owners to use a designated portion of property for common ingress and/or egress purposes. The easement area shall be maintained by the abutting property owners. The easement is not to be considered required frontage.
“Plat” means a map, or representation on paper, of a piece of land subdivided into lots, parcels, tracts or blocks, including streets/roads, commons and public grounds, if any, all drawn to scale and complete with all irrevocable offers of dedication.
A. “Sketch Plan” means an informal submittal to discuss the requirement of this title with a subdivider regarding a proposed subdivision.
B. “Preliminary plat” means drawing or drawings indicating the proposed layout of the lots, blocks and public rights-of-way within a subdivision and all related engineering plans and documentation.
C. “Final plat” means a plat of a tract of land which meets the requirements of these regulations and is in form for recording in the office of the register of deeds.
“Private street/road” means one that has not been dedicated, but rather reserved as public access to property. The private street or road shall be owned and maintained by the property owners which it serves.
“Right-of-way” means a strip of land occupied by a street, railroad, pedestrian walkways or other special use. The use of the term “right-of-way” for platting purposes means that every right-of-way hereafter established and shown on a plat is to be separate and distinct from the lots or parcels adjoining such right-of-way and not included within the dimensions or area of such lots or parcels.
“Structures” means anything constructed or erected with a fixed location on the ground, or attached to something having a fixed location on the ground. Among other things, structures include buildings, walls, fences and signs.
“Subdivision” means the division of any tract or parcel of land into two or more lots or tracts.(Ord. 555 (part), 2002)