For the purpose of this section, certain words and terms are defined as follows:
Alley
A public right-of-way which affords a secondary means of access to abutting property.
Applicant
The owner of land proposed to be subdivided, or that person’s representative.
Block
An area of land within a subdivision that is entirely bounded by streets, or by streets and the exterior boundary or boundaries of the subdivision, or a combination of the above with a river or lake.
Boulevard
The portion of the street right-of-way between the curb and the property line.
Building
Any structure used or intended for support or sheltering any use or occupancy.
Comprehensive Plan
The group of maps, charts and ordinances that make up the comprehensive, long-range plan of the City.
Council
The City Council of the City of Dayton.
Cul-de-sac
A local street with only 1 outlet and having an appropriate terminal for the safe and convenient reversal of traffic movement.
Deflection Angle
The angle between a line and the prolongation of the preceding line.
Design Standards
The specifications to which landowners or subdividers must comply 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 land for the purpose of utilities and facilities, including, but not limited to, electric lines, telephone lines, storm sewer or storm drainage ways, watermain and gas lines, open space and conservation.
Easement, Slope
A grant by a property owner for the use of a strip of land for the purpose of constructing a slope or grade transition from the existing property grades to the new street grade.
Final Plat
A drawing or map of a subdivision, meeting all the requirements of the City and in the form as required by the county for purposes of recording.
Flag Lot
A lot without the required full lot width on a public roadway and with access to the public roadway provided to the bulk of the lot by means of a narrow strip or private easement; or, any lot, shaped like a flag, where the bulk or flag area of the lot has a width dimension greater than the frontage on a public roadway, regardless of frontage on the public roadway.
Improvement
Any object, structure, work of art, utility, grading or building constituting a physical betterment of real property, or any part of such betterment.
Improvement, Public
Any improvement or facility for which a governmental body, including but not limited to, the City or a school district, may ultimately assume the responsibility or maintenance and operation, or which may affect an improvement for which such responsibility already exists.
Lot
A parcel or portion of land in a subdivision, separated from other parcels or portions by a description.
Lot, Corner
A lot situated at the junction of an abutting on 2 or more intersecting streets, or a lot at the point of deflection in alignment of a single street, the interior angle of which is 135 degrees or less.
Lot, Through
A lot fronting on 2 parallel streets.
Outlot
A remnant parcel of land created during the platting process that is intended as open space or other use, or for future development or platting.
Owner
Any person having a sufficient proprietary interest in the land sought to be subdivided to commence and maintain proceedings to subdivide the same under these regulations.
Parks and Playgrounds
Public lands and local open spaces in the City of Dayton dedicated for or reserved for recreation and conservation purposes.
Pedestrian Way
A public or private right-of-way across a block or within a block to provide access, to be used by pedestrians, and which may be used for the installation of utility lines.
Percentage of Grade on Street Center Line
The distance vertically (up or down) from the horizontal in feet and tenths of a foot for each 100 feet of horizontal distance.
Planning Commission
The Planning Commission of the City of Dayton.
Preliminary Plat
A tentative drawing or map of a proposed subdivision meeting requirements herein enumerated.
Protective Covenants
Contracts or conditions, other than those imposed by public regulation, relating to the manner in which land may be used, with the view to protecting and preserving the physical, social 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.
Street, Community Collector
A street that connects communities within and between subregions; provides mobility between communities; and provides access to other streets, as found on the Comprehensive Plan.
Street, Local
A street that connects blocks within neighborhoods, provides mobility within neighborhoods, and provides access to neighborhood collector streets and other local streets, as found on the Comprehensive Plan.
Street, Minor Arterial
A street that connects adjacent subregions and activity centers within subregions; provides mobility within and between 2 subregions; and provides access to interstate freeways, major arterial streets, other minor arterial streets, and collector streets, as found on the Comprehensive Plan.
Street, Minor or Marginal
A street that is used primarily for access to abutting properties.
Street, Neighborhood Collector
A street that connects neighborhoods within and between subregions; provides mobility between neighborhoods; provides access to minor arterials, other community collector streets, other neighborhood collector streets and local streets, as found on the Comprehensive Plan.
Street Width
The shortest distance between lines of lots delineating the street right-of-way.
Subdivision
The division of a parcel of land into 2 or more lots or parcels by any means including platting, registered land surveys and conveyance by metes and bounds. The term includes re-subdivision and when appropriate to the context, shall relate to the process of subdividing or to the land subdivided.
Tangent
A straight line which is perpendicular to the radius of a curve at a point on the curve.
Vertical Curve
The surface curvature on a street center line located between lines of different percentage of grade.
(Ord. 2010-04, passed 9-28-2010)