As used in these Regulations:
(1) "Block" means a piece or parcel of land entirely surrounded by public highways, public streets, railroad right of way, parks, streams, lakes or bodies of water, or a combination of these.
(2) "Building site" means that portion of the lot or parcel of land upon which the building and appurtenances are to be placed, or are already existing, including adequate areas for sewage disposal, clearance, proper drainage and appropriate easements.
(3) "Clerk" means the Clerk of Council of East Liverpool, Ohio.
(4) "City Engineer" means the City Engineer of East Liverpool, Ohio.
(5) "Council" means the Municipal Council (legislative authority) of East Liverpool, Ohio.
(6) "County" means Columbiana County, State of Ohio.
(7) "Crosswalk" means a right of way which cuts across a block to facilitate access to adjacent streets and properties.
(8) "Developer" means any person, partnership, corporation or duly authorized agent who constructs or contracts to construct improvements on subdivided land.
(9) "Easement" means a grant by the property owner for specified use of such land to a corporation, partnership, person or persons, or to the public.
(10) "Final plat" means the final map, drawing or chart on which the subdivider's plan is presented to the Planning Commission for approval and which, if approved, will be submitted to the Recorder of Columbiana County.
(11) "Flood plain" means that portion of a river or creek valley adjacent to the drainage channel which is periodically covered with water when the river or creek overflows its bank during flood stage.
(12) "Improvements" means street improvements, with or without curb or gutter, sidewalks, crosswalks, water mains, sanitary and storm sewers, street trees and other appropriate items.
(13) "Lot" means a parcel of land intended for transfer of ownership or building development, having its principal frontage on a public street.
(14) "Master Plan" means the comprehensive Plan (which may consist of several maps, data, etc.), or any portion thereof, made and adopted by the Planning Commission and which shows the general location and extent of physical facilities, including major streets and main thoroughfares, parks, schools and other public open spaces and public building sites.
(15) "Mobile home subdivision" means a subdivision designed and intended for residential use where residence is in mobile homes exclusively, and including a minimum area of five acres.
(16) "Mobile home" or "trailer" means any vehicle or similar portable structure so designed or constructed as to permit occupancy for dwelling or sleeping purposes.
(17) "Municipality" means the City of East Liverpool, Ohio.
(18) "Neighborhood unit" means a neighborhood development as a district adhering to the principle that it should have social homogeneity among its residents and contain its own elementary school, local business district, churches, clubs and recreation area and be bounded, not traversed, by major thoroughfares or major streets as hereinafter defined.
(19) "Official map" means the map established by the Planning Commission showing streets, highways and parks theretofore laid out, adopted and established by law and any amendments thereto adopted by the Planning Commission or additions thereto.
(20) "Official highway plan" means a plan designating a system of principal or major streets and highways for traffic intercommunication.
(21) "Owner" means any individual, firm, association, syndicate, copartnership, corporation, trust or any other legal entity having sufficient proprietary interest in the land sought to be subdivided to commence and maintain proceedings to subdivide the same under these Regulations.
(22) "Performance bond" or "surety bond" means an agreement by a subdivider or developer to the City for the amount of the estimated construction cost, plus twenty percent (See Section 1157.01(a)(1)) guaranteeing the completion of physical improvements according to plans and specifications within the time prescribed by the subdivider's agreement.
(23) "Planning Commission" or "Commission" means the City Planning Commission of East Liverpool, Ohio.
(24) "Plat" means a map upon which the subdivider's plan of the subdivision is presented and which he submits for approval and intends to record in the final form.
(25) "Preliminary plan" means the preliminary plan, drawing or chart indicating the proposed layout of the subdivision.
(26) "Regulations" means these Subdivision Regulations.
(27) "Reserves" means parcels of land within a subdivision that are intended for future use.
(28) "Reverse frontage" means lots within a subdivision that have frontage on a public street and back to a highway or major street.
(29) "Setback line" means a line indicating the minimum horizontal distance between the street easement or right-of-way line and buildings or any projection thereof other than steps or permanently open porches, unless otherwise specifically defined.
(30) "Street" means a way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, freeway, road, boulevard, avenue, lane, place or however otherwise designated.
(a) "Intercommunity thoroughfare" means:
1. An interstate highway or expressway which possesses an extra-wide right of way carrying high traffic volumes of unobstructed, limited- access vehicular movement;
2. A limited access highway which intercepts several major streets and may or may not have grade separated intersections. This is a principal or heavy-traffic street of considerable continuity and used primarily as a traffic artery for intercommunication between large areas.
(b) "Intracommunity street" means:
1. A major street, being a local thoroughfare which carries cross-town traffic from several neighborhoods, thereby servicing several residential collector streets;
2. A collector street, being a primary street servicing industrial and commercial areas or the principal street which carries traffic from minor streets to major streets, including the principal entrance streets or residential developments and primary circulation routes within such developments.
3. A minor street, being one used primarily for access to abutting properties.
4. A marginal access street, being a minor street which is parallel and adjacent to an arterial street and which provides access to abutting properties and protection from major streets or thoroughfares.
5. A cul-de-sac or dead-end street, being a minor street with only one outlet.
6. An alley, being a minor way which is used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
(c) "Street width" means the shortest distance between the lines delineating the right of way of a street.
(31) "Subdivider" means any individual, firm, association, syndicate, copartnership, corporation, trust or any other legal entity commencing proceedings under these Regulations to effect a subdivision of land hereunder for himself or for another.
(32) "Subdivision" means:
(a) 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 purposes, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership, provided 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 sale or exchange does not create additional building sites, shall be exempted.
(b) 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 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.
(33) "Vicinity map" means a drawing at a reduced scale which shows legibly, by dimension and/or other means, enough area beyond the bounds of the proposed subdivision to locate and orient the subdivision within the City and the relationship of the site to the community facilities which serve or influence the property.