For the purpose of this article, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. A strip of land along the side of or in the rear of lots intended to provide a secondary means of access to and from streets and such lots.
ARTERIAL STREET. Any street serving major traffic movements which is designed primarily as a traffic carrier between cities or between various sections of the city, which forms part of a network of through streets, and which provides service and access to abutting properties only as a secondary function.
BLOCK. A tract of land bounded by streets, or by a combination of streets, railway rights-of-way or waterways.
BUILDING SETBACK LINE (FRONT). A line nearest the front of and across a lot or parcel of land establishing the minimum open space to be provided between the front line of a building or structure and the line of the fronting street right-of-way.
CITY. The City of Holdrege, Nebraska.
COLLECTOR STREET. Any street designed primarily to gather traffic from local or residential streets and carry it to the arterial system.
CROSSWALK. A strip of land dedicated for public use which is reserved across a block for the purpose of providing pedestrian access to adjacent areas.
CUL-DE-SAC. A street having only one outlet and being permanently terminated by a vehicle turn- around at the other end.
DEAD END STREET. A street having only one outlet.
DESIGN STANDARDS or DESIGN REQUIREMENTS. All requirements and regulations relating to design and layout of subdivisions contained in § 11-1216 of these regulations.
EXPRESSWAY. Any divided street or highway with no access from abutting property and which has either separated or at-grade access from other public streets and highways.
FREEWAY. Any divided street or highway with complete access control and grade separated interchanges with all other public streets and highways.
FRONTAGE. The property on one side of a street between two intersecting streets (crossing or terminating) measured along the line of the street; or with a dead end street, all property abutting one side of such street measured from the nearest intersecting street and the end of the dead end street.
FRONTAGE LOT. The portion of the frontage which lies between the side lot lines of a single lot.
FRONTAGE ROAD. A public or private marginal access roadway generally paralleling and contiguous to a street or highway and designed to promote safety by eliminating unlimited ingress and egress of such street or highway by providing points of ingress and egress at more or less uniformly spaced intervals.
GENERAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN. Any official map or street plan, the future land use map or plan, or any other plan or map of the city or City Planning Commission for the guidance of municipal growth and improvement of the city.
GOVERNING BODY. The elected governing body of the city.
HALF STREET. A street bordering one or more property lines of a subdivision tract to which the subdivider has allocated only a portion of the ultimate and intended street width.
IMPROVEMENTS. All facilities constructed or erected by a subdivider within a subdivision to permit and facilitate the use of lots or blocks for a principal residential, business or manufacturing purpose, IMPROVEMENTS shall include facilities listed herein.
LIMITED ACCESS HIGHWAY. An expressway or freeway, as defined in these regulations.
LOCAL STREET. Any street designed primarily to provide access to abutting property.
LOT. A portion or basic parcel of a subdivision or other tract of land intended to be the parcel by which such land would be individually developed and transferred.
LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE. A lot, two opposite lot lines of which abut upon streets which are more or less parallel.
LOT DEPTH. The distance between the midpoint of the front lot line and the midpoint of the rear lot line.
LOT LINE. The boundary line of a lot.
LOT SPLIT. The dividing or redividing or a lot or lots in a recorded plat of a subdivision which meets the criteria established within these regulations.
LOT WIDTH. The distance on a horizontal plane between the side lot lines of a lot, measured at right angles to the line establishing the lot depth at the established building setback line.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREET. A local street which is parallel with and adjacent to a limited access highway or arterial street and which provides access to abutting properties and protection from fast through traffic on the limited access highway or arterial street.
OWNER. Any person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or corporations, or any other legal entity having legal title to land sought to be subdivided under these regulations.
PLANNING COMMISSION. The Holdrege Planning Commission.
PLAT. A subdivision as it is represented as a formal document by drawings and writing.
REPLAT. The subdivision of a tract of land which has previously been lawfully subdivided and a plat of such prior subdivision duly recorded.
ROAD or ROADWAY. The paved or improved area existing on the street right-of-way, exclusive of sidewalks, driveways or related uses.
SCREENING. Decorative fencing or evergreen vegetation maintained for the purpose of concealing from view the area behind such fencing or evergreen vegetation. When fencing is used for SCREENING, it shall be not less than six, nor more than eight, feet in height.
STREET. The street right-of-way or easement, whether public or private; not the area of the paving or other improvements on the street right-of- way unless such paving or improvements coincide with the boundaries of such right-of-way.
STREET WIDTH. The shortest distance between the property lines abutting both sides of a street right-of-way.
SUBDIVIDER. The owner, or any other person, firm or corporation authorized by the owner, undertaking proceedings under the provisions of these regulations for the purpose of subdividing land.
SUBDIVISION. Any division or redivision of land by means of mapping, platting, conveying, changing or rearranging of boundaries, or otherwise, and shall also relate to the process of subdividing or other land subdivided where appropriate to the context.
TURN-AROUND. An area at the closed end of a dead end street or cul-de-sac within which vehicles may reverse their direction without any backing up.
(2005 Code, § 11-1270)