For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. A public way which provides secondary means of access to abutting property, usually to the side or rear of lots.
BLOCK. A piece or parcel of land entirely surrounded by public highways, streets, streams, railroad, rights-of-way, or parks or a combination thereof.
BUILDING LINE. A line on a plat indicating the limit beyond which buildings or structures may not be erected.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. The duly adopted plan for the long-range development of the community which includes maps, charts, illustrations, and texts.
DEPARTMENT. The Town Manager or his or her agent.
EASEMENT. A permanent or temporary grant of right by a property owner to the public, a corporation or other persons of the use of a strip of land for specified purposes. Ownership of said strip of land shall remain with the property owner.
FINAL PLAT. A plan or map prepared in accordance with the provisions of these regulations and those of any other applicable town ordinances, which plat is prepared to be placed on record in the office of the County Recorder.
GOVERNING BODY. The Council of the Town of Guadalupe.
LOT. A portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land intended for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership or for building development.
PRELIMINARY PLAT. The drawings and documents showing the character and proposed layout of the subdivision to indicate its suitability in relation to the community’s comprehensive plan.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The entire way between the property lines of abutting owners.
SIDEWALK. A pedestrian walkway with permanent surfacing constructed to town standards.
STREET. A right-of-way dedicated to the public use which provides principal vehicular and pedestrian access to adjacent properties, including the right-of-way but not limited to streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, lanes, parkways, places, bridges, viaducts, alleys, or easements for public or private vehicular use.
SUBDIVIDER. A person, firm, corporation, partnership, association, estate, syndicate, trust, or other legal entity that files application and initiates proceedings for the subdivision of land in accordance with the provisions of these regulations.
SUBDIVISION.
(1) Improved or unimproved land or lands divided for the purpose of financing, sale, or lease, whether immediate or future, into four or more lots, tracts, or parcels of land, or, if a new street is involved, any such property which is divided into more than two parts. SUBDIVISION also includes any condominium, cooperative, community apartment, townhouse, or similar project containing four or more parcels in which an undivided interest in the land is coupled with the right of exclusive occupancy of any unit located thereon, but plats of such projects need not show the buildings or the manner in which the buildings or air space above the property shown on the plat are to be divided.
(2) SUBDIVISION does not include the following:
(a) The sale or exchange of parcels of land to or between adjoining property owners if such sale or exchange does not create additional lots;
(b) The partitioning of land in accordance with state statutes regulating the partitioning of land held in common ownership; or
(c) The leasing of apartments, offices, stores, or similar space within a building or trailer park, nor to mineral, oil, or gas leases.
(1989 Code, § 15-2)