In this article:
(1) ANGLE PARKING means parking where the longitudinal axis of a vehicle forms an angle with the alignment of the roadway.
(2) ARTERIAL means a street designated as either a principal or minor arterial in the city’s thoroughfare plan.
(3) A.S.T.M. (AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING MATERIALS) means any publication, pamphlet, booklet, book, or document referred to by number, letter, or other designation in this article in connection with this definition, as amended. Such publication is a part of this article and incorporated into this article by reference.
(4) CONTRACTOR means any person engaged in the business of installing or altering walks, drives, curbs, gutters, or pavements or appurtenances on public property. This term also includes those who represent themselves to be engaged in the business whether actually doing the work or not and includes any person who subcontracts to do such work.
(5) CURB means a vertical or sloping member along the edge of a pavement forming part of a gutter, strengthening or protecting the pavement edge, and clearly defining the pavement edge to vehicle operators. The surface at the curb facing the general direction of the pavement is called the “face.”
(6) DIRECTOR means the director of the department designated by the city manager to enforce and administer this article, or the director’s authorized representative.
(7) DRIVEWAY APPROACH means an area, construction, or facility between the roadway of a public street and private property intended to provide access for vehicles from the roadway of a public street to private property.
(8) GUTTER means the artificially surfaced and generally shallow waterway provided usually at the side of the street adjacent to, and part of, the curb of the curb for the drainage of surface water.
(9) INDENTED PARKING means angle parking or parallel parking adjacent to, but outside of, the travel lane of a public roadway where a portion of the public roadway is required for maneuvering into or out of the parking space.
(10) INTERSECTION means the area embraced within the prolongation of connection of the edges of the roadway of two or more streets that join at an angle whether or not one such street crosses the other. Where a street includes two roadways 30 feet or more apart, then each crossing of each roadway of such divided street by an intersecting street is regarded as a separate intersection. If the intersecting street also includes two or more roadways 30 feet or more apart, then each crossing of each roadway of such street is regarded as a separate intersection.
(11) OFF-STREET PARKING means a type of parking wherein the maneuvering of the vehicle while parking and unparking, as well as the actual parking itself, is done entirely on private property.
(12) ROADWAY means that portion of a highway, street, or road that is improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel. If a street includes two or more separate roadways, the term “roadway” refers to each roadway separately and not to all roadways collectively.
(13) SIDEWALK OR WALK means that portion of a street between the curb lines or the lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines that is for the use of pedestrians.
(14) SINGLE FAMILY DISTRICT means any of the single family districts described in Section 51A-4.112 of the Dallas Development Code, as amended.
(15) STREET means a public way for purposes of vehicular travel, including the entire area within the right of way. This term in urban areas means a highway or street and in rural areas means a highway or road.
(16) STREET SEGMENT means the portion of a street between two intersections.
(17) TRAFFIC ISLAND means a barrier within a roadway to exclude vehicles, designed for the purpose of separating or directing streams of vehicular traffic. (Ord. Nos. 8590; 21186; 22026; 27227)