(a) "Bond" means any form of security including a cash deposit, surety bond, collateral, property, or instrument of credit in a form satisfactory to the Village Solicitor.
(b) "Construction plans" means the detailed engineering drawings accompanying a subdivision plat and showing the specific location and design of improvements to be installed in the subdivision.
(c) "Improvements" means grading, sanitary and storm sewers, water mains, pavement, curbs and gutters, sidewalks, street signs, street lights, street trees, and the appropriate appurtenances required to render land suitable for the use proposed.
(d) "Lot" or "parcel" means a division of land separated or proposed to be separated from other divisions of land by description on a recorded subdivision plat, recorded survey map, or by metes and bounds for purposes whether immediate or future, of sale, lease, separate use, or building development.
(e) "Corner lot" means a lot at the point of intersection of and abutting on two intersecting streets.
(f) "Public utility" means any person, firm, corporation, governmental agency, or board having a public utility commission permit to furnish under regulations to the public, electricity, gas, steam, telephone, transportation, water, or any other similar public utility.
(g) "Right-of-way" means a strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a street, crosswalk, walkway, or other public improvement relating to public travel or access.
(h) "Street and Alleys". "Street" means a way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, boulevard, land, place or however otherwise designated.
(1) "Major Highway" is a principal or heavy traffic street of considerable continuity and used primarily as a traffic artery for inter-communication between large areas. State Route 585 is an example.
(2) "Secondary Highway" is a thoroughfare which connects large rural areas of the county. State Routes 604 and 94 are examples.
(3) "Collector Street" is a street which carries traffic from minor streets to major highways or major streets, including the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation within such a development.
(4) "Minor Street" is a street used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
(5) "Cul-de-Sac" or "Dead-end Street" is a minor street with only one outlet.
(6) "Alley" is a minor way which is used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
(7) "Street Width" is the shortest distance between the lines delineating the right-of-way of a street.
(i) "Subdivider" means any individual, firm, association, syndicate, co-partnership, corporation, trust or any other legal entity commencing proceedings under these Regulations to effect a subdivision of land hereunder for himself or for another.
(j) "Subdivision":
(1) The division of any parcel of land shown as a unit or as contiguous units on the last preceding tax roll, into two (2) or more parcels, sites or lots, any one of which is less than five (5) acres for the purposes - whether immediate or future - of transfer of ownership, provided, however, that the division or partition of land into parcels of more than five (5) acres not involving any new streets or easements of access, and the sale or exchange of parcels between adjoining lot owners, where such sale or exchange does not create additional building sites, shall be exempted.
(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 or any street or streets, 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.
(3) "Minor Subdivision" is a division of a parcel of land along an existing public street or road not involving the opening, widening, or extension of any street or road and involving not more than five lots after the original tract has been completely subdivided.
(Ord. 98-28. Passed 9-1-98.)