(a) Block: 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 aforesaid bounds.
(b) Building Site: The portion of the lot or parcel of land upon which the building and appurtenance are to be placed, or are already existing including adequate areas for sewage disposal, clearance, proper drainage and appropriate easements.
(c) Clerk: The Clerk of the Municipality of Gallipolis, Ohio.
(d) Commission: The municipal commission (legislative authority) of Gallipolis, Ohio.
(e) County: Gallia County, State of Ohio.
(f) Crosswalk: A right-of-way which cuts across a block to facilitate access to adjacent streets and properties.
(g) Developer: Any person, partnership or corporation or duly authorized agent who constructs or contracts to construct improvements on subdivided land.
(h) Easement: A grant by the property owner for specified use of said land to a corporation, partnership, person or persons, or to the public.
(i) Final Plat: The final map, drawing, or chart on which the subdivider’s plan is presented to the City Planning Commission for approval and which, if approved, will be submitted to the Recorder of Gallia County.
(j) Flood Plain: 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.
(k) Hillside Area: A hillside area as referred to herein is defined as one with an average slope of fifteen percent (15%) or more.
(l) Improvements: Street improvements, with or without curb or gutter, sidewalks, crosswalks, water mains, sanitary and storm sewers, street trees, and other appropriate items.
(m) Lot: A parcel of land intended for transfer of ownership or building development, having its principal frontage on a public street.
(n) Master Plan: The Comprehensive Plan (which may consist of several maps, data, etc.) or any portion thereof, made and adopted by the City Planning Commission of Gallipolis, Ohio, 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.
(o) Municipality: The Municipality of Gallipolis, Ohio
(p) Official Map: 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.
(q) Official Highway Plan: A plan designating a system of principal or major streets and highways for traffic intercommunication.
(r) Owner: 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 this Title One of Part Eleven - Planning and Zoning Code.
(s) Pad: A building site prepared by artificial means, including grading, excavation, or filling, or any combination thereof.
(t) Performance Bond or Surety Bond: An agreement by a subdivider or developer to the Municipality for the amount of the estimated construction cost guaranteeing the completion of physical improvements according to plans and specifications within the time prescribed by the subdivider's agreement.
(u) Planning Commission: The Planning Commission of Gallipolis, Ohio.
(v) Plat: 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.
(w) Preliminary Plan: The preliminary plan, drawing, or chart indicating the proposed layout of the subdivision.
(x) Regulation: Subdivision Regulations for the Municipality of Gallipolis, Ohio.
(y) Reserves: Parcels of land within a subdivision that are intended for future use.
(z) Reverse Frontage: Lots within a subdivision that have frontage on a public street and back to a highway or major street.
(aa) Setback Line: 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.
(bb) Street: Shall mean a way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, freeway, road, boulevard, avenue, lane, place, or however otherwise designated.
(1) Intercommunity Thoroughfares:
A. Interstate or expressway which possesses extra wide right-of-way carrying high traffic volumes of unobstructed, limited-access vehicular movement.
B. Limited access highways which intercept several major streets and may or may not have 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.
(2) Intracommunity Streets:
A. Major streets are those local thoroughfares which carry cross town traffic from several neighborhoods, thereby servicing several residential collector streets.
B. Collector Street. Whether residential, industrial, commercial, or other, which carries traffic from minor streets to major streets, including the principal entrance streets of residential developments and primary circulation routes within such developments.
C. Minor streets are used primarily for access to abutting properties.
D. Marginal Access Streets. A minor street which is parallel and adjacent to an arterial street and provides access to abutting properties and protection from major streets or thoroughfares.
E. Cul-de-sac or Dead-end Street. A minor street with only one outlet.
F. Alley. Minor ways which are used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
(3) Street Width. The shortest distance between the lines delineating the right- of-way of a street.
(cc) Subdivider: 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.
(dd) 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 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 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 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.
(ee) Vicinity Map: 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 Municipality and the relationship of the site to the community facilities which serve or influence the property.
(Ord. 67-11. Passed 1-24-67.)