For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. A public or private right-of-way which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property from a street or road.
ARTERIAL STREET. A street designed or utilized for high vehicular speeds or heavy volumes of traffic.
BLOCK. A piece or parcel of land entirely surrounded by public highway, streets, streams, railroad rights-of-way or parks and the like, or a combination thereof.
CITY COUNCIL. The City Council of Gothenburg, Nebraska.
CITY ENGINEER. The person responsible to perform the duties of the City Engineer as provided for under Neb. RS 17-568, including any and all special engineers as appointed by the City Council pursuant to the statute.
COLLECTOR STREET. A street designed for moderate volumes of traffic between minor streets and arterial streets.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. The general plan for the improvement and development of the city as adopted as required by the applicable state statute.
CUL-DE-SAC. A vehicular turnaround which is located at the closed end of a dead-end street or alley.
DESIGN. The location of streets, alignment of streets, grades, and widths of streets, alignment of easements, grades, and widths of easements, alignment and rights-of-way for drainage and sanitary sewers, and the designation of minimum lot area, width, and length.
EASEMENT. A grant by the property owner to the public, a corporation, or persons, of the use of a strip of land for specific purposes.
FINAL PLAT. A plan or map prepared in accordance with the provisions of this regulation and those of any other applicable local regulation, which plat is prepared to be placed on record in the office of the Register of Deeds of the county.
FLOOD PLAIN. Those lands within the zoning jurisdiction of the city which are subject to a 1% or greater chance of flooding in any given year. The regulatory flood plain for this chapter shall be based on the official Flood Hazard Boundary Map or Flood Insurance Rate Map issued by the Federal Insurance Administration, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and any revision thereto. Copies of the maps shall be on file in the office of the City Clerk.
IMPROVEMENTS. Street work and utilities that are to be installed, or agreed to be installed, by the subdivider on the land to be used for public or private use of the lot owners in the subdivision and local neighborhood traffic, drainage needs, and other improvements, as a condition precedent to the approval and acceptance of the final plat.
LOT. A portion of land in a subdivision or other parcel of land, intended as a unit for transfer of ownership or for development.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREET A minor street which is parallel to and adjacent an arterial street and which serves to reduce the number of access points to the arterial street.
MINOR STREETS. Street which is used primarily for access to properties abutting thereon and which carries relatively small volumes of traffic.
OPEN SPACE. An area of land or water or combination thereof planned for passive or active recreation, but does not include areas utilized for streets, alleys, driveways or private roads, off-street parking or loading areas, or required front, rear, or side yards.
PEDESTRIAN WAY. Right-of-way dedicated to public use which cuts across a block to facilitate pedestrian access to adjacent streets and properties.
PLANNING COMMISSION. The Gothenburg Planning Commission.
SECRETARY. Secretary of the Planning Commission.
SETBACK LINE or BUILDING LINE. A line on a plat generally parallel to the street right-of-way, indicating the minimum open space to be provided between buildings or structures and the edge of the street right-of-way.
STREET. A right-of-way, dedicated to the public use, or a private right-of-way which provides principal vehicular and pedestrian access to adjacent properties.
SUBDIVIDER. A person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association who causes land to be divided into a subdivision for itself or for others.
SUBDIVISION. The division of a tract of land into two or more lots or parcels for the purpose of transfer of ownership or building development, or, if a new street is involved, any division of a parcel of land. The term SUBDIVISION includes RESUBDIVISION, and the term RESUBDIVISION, as used herein, shall include any further subdivision of a lot or parcel of land previously subdivided, for sale, use, or other purposes, which varies from the latest, approved plat of the same.
(Ord. 628, passed 7-11-1995; Ord. 816, passed 6-19-2007, Art. 3; Ord. 851, passed 8-4-2009, Art. 3)