For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning. Definitions not expressly prescribed herein are to be determined in accordance with customary usage in municipal planning and engineering practices.
CITY ENGINEER. The city’s on-staff engineer or consulting engineer.
COUNCIL. The City Council of Godley, Texas.
EASEMENT. A right granted for the purpose of limited public or semi-public use across, under or over private land.
FILING. The state mandated 30-day period for action on any document submitted in accordance with this subchapter under Tex. Loc. Gov’t Code, § 212.009 shall begin when:
(1) The preliminary plat is deemed filed when all fees, documents and drawings required hereunder are filed with the City Secretary;
(2) The final plat is deemed filed when the approved preliminary plat along with any stipulations and/or conditions required by the Commission have been filed with the City Secretary as a final plat and when all necessary fees, documents, certifications and drawings required hereunder are in the possession of the City Secretary;
(3) If at any time the City Secretary deems that required information has not been provided for whatever reason, the filing shall be deemed canceled and begin again upon the filing of the required information; and
(4) A rejected document, during the appeal, is deemed unfiled and time limits are tolled (the appeal will be heard at the next meeting of the Commission or Council or ten days, which ever is shortest).
FINAL PLAT. A complete and exact subdivision plan submitted to the Council for final approval and which, if approved, shall be submitted to the County Clerk of Johnson County, Texas, for recording.
LOT. Any land occupied by a building and its accessory buildings, including such open space as is required by ordinances of the city; and having its principle frontage upon a public street or officially-approved place.
LOT OF RECORD. Any lot which is part of a subdivision, the plat of which has been recorded in the office of the County Clerk of Johnson County.
PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR. The person designated by the Mayor to administer the provisions of this subchapter.
STREET. A way for vehicular traffic, whether designated a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, place or however otherwise designated.
(1) ARTERIAL STREETS AND HIGHWAYS. Those which are used primary for fast or heavy traffic or which are designated in the Master Plan as a primary street, expressway or freeway.
(2) COLLECTOR STREETS. Those which carry traffic from minor streets to a major system of arterial streets and highways, including the principle entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation within the development and which are designated in the Master Plan as secondary streets.
(3) CUL-DE-SAC. A short, minor street having but one vehicular access to another street and terminated by a vehicular turn-around.
(4) DEAD-END STREET. A street with only one opening, other than a cul-de-sac.
(5) MARGINAL ACCESS STREETS. Minor streets which are parallel and adjacent to arterial streets and highways, and which provide access to abutting property and protection from through traffic.
(6) MINOR STREETS. Those which are used primarily for access to abutting property.
STANDARD. The official city maps, master plan, ordinances and other specifications of the city.
SUBDIVISION AND RELATED TERMS. The division of a parcel of land into tracts of land; the dedication of streets or easements; or for use for building development, provided that a division of land for agricultural purposes into lots or tracts of five acres or more, and not involving a new street or alley, shall not be deemed to be a subdivision. The term RESUBDIVISION and, when appropriate to the context, shall relate either to the process of subdividing or to the land subdivided. The terms SUBDIVIDER and DEVELOPER are synonymous and are used interchangeably and shall include any person, partnership, firm, association, corporation and/or any officer, agent, employee, servant and trustee thereof who does, or participates in the doing of, any act towards the subdivision of land within the intent, scope and purview of this division.
(Ord. 11-5-98, passed 11-5-1998; Ord. 02032015-SUBD, passed 2-3-2015)