As used in these Subdivision Regulations, unless otherwise provided:
(a) "Block" means a parcel of land bounded on all sides by a street or streets.
(b) "City" means the City of Fostoria, Ohio.
(c) "City Council" means the Council of the City.
(d) "City Engineer" means the Engineer of the City.
(e) "City Planning Commission" means the planning commission of the City.
(f) "County" means the County of Seneca, Hancock or Wood, State of Ohio.
(1) "County Engineer" means the Engineer of the County.
(2) "Regional Planning Commission" means the planning commission of Seneca, Hancock or Wood County.
(g) "Cul-de-sac" - see "street".
(h) "Developer" means an individual, group of individuals, organization or any other legal entity undertaking or contracting for construction of improvements on subdivided land.
(i) "Easement" means a grant by a property owner to an individual, group of individuals, organization or any other legal entity, to the use of a certain parcel of land for a specified purpose. "Utilities easement" means an easement granted for installation and/or maintenance of public utilities.
(j) "Improvements" means streets, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, sanitary and storm sewers, water services and such other facilities as may be required for subdivision and development of land under the requirements specified by these Regulations.
(k) "Law Director" means the Law Director of the City.
(1) "Lot" means a piece, parcel or tract of land separated from other parcels by lot lines, and having frontage on a public street.
(1) "Lot area" means the computed land area contained within the lot lines, usually expressed in square feet or in acres and fractions thereof.
(2) "Corner lot" means a lot at the juncture of, and fronting upon two or more intersecting streets or upon two parts of the same street, such streets or parts of the same forming an interior angle of less than 135 degrees. The point of intersection of the street lot lines is the corner.
(3) "Lot depth" means the mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines.
(4) "Interior lot" means any lot other than a corner lot.
(5) "Lot lines" means the property lines bounding a lot.
A. "Front lot line" means the lines separating a lot from the street on which it abuts.
B. "Rear lot line" means the lot line opposite to and most distant from the front lot line.
C. "Side lot line" means any lot line other than a front or rear lot line. A side lot line separating a lot from a street is a side street lot line. A side lot line separating a lot from another lot is an interior side lot line.
(6) "Lot split" means the division of a single parcel of land into at least two but not more than five lots, either at the same time or over a period of time.
(7) "Lot width" means the mean horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured at right angles to the depth.
(m) "Map" means a scaled drawing or reproduction thereof of a parcel of land or subdivision of land.
(1) "Preliminary plat map" means a tentative proposal for the subdivision of land under these Regulations, submitted in map form to the City Planning Commission for its consideration according to the procedures specified herein.
(2) "Final plat map", means a final proposal for the subdivision of land, presented in map form to the City Planning Commission for approval and which, if approved, will become the official recorded plat of that subdivision.
(3) "Vicinity map" means a small map identifying the location of a proposed subdivision of land with reference to known points in the area around it.
(n) "Owner" means an individual, group of individuals, organization or any other legal entity having sufficient proprietary interest in land sought to be subdivided to commence and maintain proceedings to subdivide the same under requirements specified by these Subdivision Regulations.
(o) "Right of way" means the area between property lines utilized or reserved for use as a public street, alley or pedestrian way.
(p) "Street" means a public right of way for vehicular traffic, including but not limited to such terms as highway, thoroughfare, parkway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, drive, court and circle.
(1) "Major or arterial street" means a street of considerable continuity used for the movement of traffic between large and/or widely separated areas (as indicated by the City's or County's Master Thoroughfare Plan).
(2) "Secondary or collector street" means a street of intermediate continuity used for the movement of traffic between arterial streets and local streets (as indicated by the City's or County's Master Thoroughfare Plan).
(3) "Minor or local street" means a street used primarily for access to abutting properties.
(4) "Cul-de-sac" means a minor street having one end open to vehicular traffic and the other end permanently terminated by a vehicular turn around.
(5) "Dead-end street" means a street having one end open to vehicular traffic and the other end temporarily terminated by a vehicular turnaround.
(6) "Alley" means a vehicular right of way providing a secondary means of access to the rear or side of abutting properties.
(q) "Subdivider" means an individual, group of individuals, organization or any other legal entity commencing proceedings to subdivide land under requirements specified by these Subdivision Regulations.
(r) "Subdivision" means the division of any parcel of land as a unit or as contiguous units on the last preceding tax roll, into two or more parcels, sites or lots.
(1) Any of which is less than five acres, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership, provided, however, 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 exempt.
(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 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 extension and maintenance of public sewer, water, storm drainage or other public facilities.
(s) "Vertical visibility" means the minimum unobstructed distance between the top of an object four inches high placed on the center line of a street and another point on the center line of the same street located four and one-half feet above the surface thereof.