For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY or SERVICE DRIVE. A passage or way affording generally a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting properties.
COLLECTOR STREET. A street serving as a connection between a major and local street and serving secondary traffic generators.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN. The adopted plan for orderly growth of the city.
CUL-DE-SAC. A minor residential street with a turn-around.
LOCAL STREET. A street intended to serve and provide access to neighborhoods or subneighborhoods.
LOT. A parcel of land intended for transfer of ownership or building development, whether immediate or future. A lot shall have frontage on a public street.
MAJOR STREET. A street which connects principal traffic generations or connects such areas with other systems.
PLATS OFFICER. The employee designated by the City Council to administer this chapter.
SUBDIVISION. The division of land into two or more parts, any of which is less than five acres, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership or building development, including all public streets, alleys, ways for public service facilities, parks, playgrounds, school grounds or other public grounds, and all the tracts, parcels, lots or blocks, and numbering all such lots, blocks or parcels by progressive numbers, giving their precise dimensions; provided, however, that the following shall not be considered a subdivision and shall be exempt from the requirements of this chapter:
(1) The division or subdivision of land into parcels or tracts of five acres or more in size which does not involve any new streets or easements of access;
(2) The division of lots or blocks of less than one acre in any recorded subdivision which does not involve any new streets or easements of access;
(3) The sale or exchange of parcels of land between owners of adjoining and contiguous land;
(4) The conveyance of parcels of land or interests therein for use as right-of-way for railroads or other public utility facilities which does not involve any new streets or easements of access;
(5) The conveyance of land owned by a railroad or other public utility which does not involve any new streets or easements of access;
(6) The conveyance of land for highway or other public purposes or grants or conveyances relating to the dedication of land for public use or instruments relating to the vacation of land impressed with a public use;
(7) Conveyances made to correct descriptions in prior conveyances;
(8) The sale or exchange of parcels or tracts of land existing on July 17, 1959, into no more than two parts and not involving any new streets or easements of access.
(‘82 Code, § 16.04.010) (Ord. 649, passed - -72; Am. Ord. 1510, passed 8-4-14)