For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. A minor right-of-way dedicated to public use which gives a secondary means of vehicular access to the back or side of properties otherwise abutting a street and which may be used for public utility purposes.
BLOCK. A parcel of land, intended to be used for urban purposes, which is entirely surrounded by public streets, highways, railroad rights-of-way, public walks, parks or greenstrips, rural land or drainage channels or a combination thereof.
BUILDING LINE or SETBACK LINE. A line or lines designating the area outside of which buildings may not be erected.
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.
GENERAL PLAN or COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. The comprehensive development plan for the city which has been officially adopted to provide long-range development policies for the area subject to urbanization in the foreseeable future and which includes, among other things, the plan for land use, land subdivision, circulation, and community facilities.
LOT. A subdivision of a block or other parcel intended as a unit for the transfer of ownership or for development.
LOT, CORNER. A lot located at the intersection of and abutting on two or more streets.
LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE. A lot which runs through a block from street to street and which has two non-intersecting sides abutting on two or more streets.
LOT, REVERSE FRONTAGE. A double-frontage lot which is to be developed with the rear yard abutting a major street and with the primary means of ingress and egress provided on a minor street.
LOT, SPLIT. Any division of land by metes and bounds description into two or more parcels for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership, and which does not constitute a subdivision as herein defined.
PLANNING COMMISSION. The City Planning Commission.
PLAT, FINAL. A map of land subdivision prepared in a form suitable for filing of record with necessary affidavits, dedications and acceptances, and with complete bearings and dimensions of all lines defining lots and blocks, streets and alleys, public areas, and other dimensions of land.
PLAT, PRELIMINARY. A map of a proposed land subdivision showing the character and proposed layout of the tract in sufficient detail to indicate the suitability of the proposed subdivision of land.
ROADWAY. The portion of any street so designated for vehicular traffic. Where curbs are in place, it means that portion of the street between curbs.
STREET. The entire width of whatever nature between the property lines when any part thereof is open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purpose of vehicular traffic or pedestrian traffic, and wherever designated as a STREET, highway, thoroughfare, expressway, road, avenue, boulevard, land, place, cul-de-sac, or however otherwise designated.
STREET, ARTERIAL. A major street which is designated on the thoroughfare plan, or official city plan and designed to carry inter-city traffic and to relate the various neighborhoods within the city.
STREET, COLLECTOR. The streets designed to carry intra-city traffic connecting neighborhood areas to a major street whose purpose is to collect traffic from other minor streets and to serve as the most direct route to a major street or to a community facility.
STREET, COMMERCIAL OR INDUSTRIAL. A street which abuts a commercial or industrial-zoned property and is designed to provide access to those parcels so designated.
STREET, CUL-DE-SAC. A minor street having one end open to vehicular traffic and having one closed end terminated by a turnaround.
STREET, FRONTAGE OR SERVICE. A minor street auxiliary to and located on the side of an
arterial street for service to abutting properties and adjacent areas and for control of access.
STREET, MARGINAL ACCESS. A service road or other roadway normally running parallel to or with an arterial street for the purpose of intercepting traffic from abutting property or intersecting streets for the purpose of limiting access to the arterial street main roadway.
STREET, MINOR. Any street not specifically classified on the thoroughfare plan whose primary purpose is to provide access to adjacent properties.
SUBDIVIDER. Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or entity, acting as a unit, subdividing or proposing to subdivide land as herein defined.
SUBDIVISION. The division or re-division of land into two or more lots, tracts, sites, or parcels for the purpose of transfer of ownership or for development, the dedication or vacation of a public or private right-of-way or easement.
THOROUGHFARE PLAN. The part of an official city plan referring to transportation development goals, principles, and standards.
(Prior Code, § 12-404)