1189.08 DEFINITIONS.

   For the purpose of these subdivision regulations, certain terms are defined as follows:

   (a)   Alley or Service Drive. A passage or way affording generally a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting properties and not intended for general traffic circulation.

   (b)   As-Built Plan. A drawing which represents a true location of what is being measured or has already been built in the field.

   (c)   Block. A piece of land entirely surrounded by public street or railroad rights-of-way, parks, etc., or a combination thereof. Block length refers to the long side of the block upon which the majority of the lots ordinarily front; block width or depth refers to the short side of the block abutting the side street.

   (d)   Director of Engineering. The Director of Engineering for the City of Hamilton, Ohio, or their designee.

   (e)   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.

   (f)   Final Plat. A plat of a subdivision containing all necessary information as required in Section 1193.03 of these regulations, signed by the appropriate authorities, and recorded in the office of the Butler County Recorder.

   (g)   Homeowners Association. An organization of property owners established for the care and maintenance of common areas within a subdivision including, but not limited to, storm water detention and/or retention facilities.

   (h)   Improvements. Street pavement, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, waterlines, gas lines, sewer lines, storm drains, street lights, electric facilities, flood control and drainage facilities, utility lines, landscaping, and other related matters, whether public or private, normally associated with the development of raw land into building sites.

   (i)   Local Street or Collector Street. A street intended to serve and to provide access to neighborhoods or sub-neighborhoods.

   (j)   Minor Street. Any street, not a highway, primary, or secondary thoroughfare, parkway, or local or collector street, and intended to serve and to provide access exclusively to the properties abutting thereon.

   (k)   Minor Subdivision (Lot Split). A division of a parcel of land that does not require a record plat to be approved by the Planning Commissionas specified in section 711.134 of the Ohio Revised Code.

   (l)   Monuments. Permanent concrete or iron markers used to establish boundary lines of a subdivision plat and points of change in street alignment.

   (m)   Planning Commission. The City Planning Commission of the City of Hamilton, Ohio.

   (n)   Preliminary Plat. The drawing depicting a proposed subdivision which is intended to provide the Planning Commission with pertinent information regarding the development of a subdivision.

   (o)   Roadway Functional Classification Map. A map of the City of Hamilton illustrating the grouping of roads, streets, and highways in a hierarchy based on the type of highway service they provide.

   (p)   Subdivision. Means:

      (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 acres for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership. Provided, however, the division or partition of land into parcels of more than five 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; or

      (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 leaseholders, or as easements for the extension and maintenance of public sewer, water, gas, electric, storm drainage, or other public facilities.

   (q)   Subdivision Regulations. As used in Title Three of Part Eleven - Planning and Zoning Code means Ordinance OR2021-5-30, passed May 12, 2021.

   (r)   Thoroughfare, Street, or Road. The full width between property lines bounding every public way of whatever nature, with a part thereof to be used for vehicular traffic and designated as follows:

      (1)   Interstates and Freeways. A divided highway intended to serve the uninterrupted flow of traffic for both interstate and intrastate traffic through an area. Such highways are generally limited or controlled access in nature.

      (2)   Principal Arterials. Principal Arterials are generally State and U.S. highways and heavily traveled County and City roads which carry both local and cross-county traffic. They link various urban and rural communities and are intended to move traffic to and from interstates and major traffic generators.

      (3)   Minor Arterials. Similar in function to Principal Arterials, though usually carrying less traffic. These thoroughfares consist of State and U.S. Highways, County, and City roads which distribute traffic from Principal Arterials to a lower system.

      (4)   Major Collectors. Major Collectors consist of City roads which are intended to carry local traffic and distribute traffic to Principal and Minor Arterials and/or to local streets.

      (5)   Local Streets. These streets provide access to individual properties which abut them. In addition, they provide access to the Collector and Arterial Systems on a local level. Local streets serve residential, commercial, and industrial land uses.

      (6)   Alley. A public or private way not more than thirty (30) feet wide affording only secondary means of access to abutting property.

      (7)   Cul-de-sac. A local street, that does not serve more than twenty-five (25) lots, with one end open to traffic and the other end terminating in a vehicular turnaround.

      (8)   Dead-end/Stubbed Street. A street temporarily having only one outlet for vehicular traffic and intended to be extended or continued in the future.

      (9)   Private Street. A street which has not been duly accepted by the City for public use.

      (10)   Public Street. A street which has been dedicated and accepted by the City for public use.

         (Ord. 2021-5-30. Passed 5-12-21.)