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170.04 DEFINITIONS.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms and words are hereby defined. The word “building” as used herein includes the word “structure.”
   1.   “Alley” means a permanent public service way or right-of-way, designed to provide a secondary means of access to abutting property.
   2.   “Building line” means a line established on a plat as a restrictive covenant beyond which no building may be placed. The building lines need not correspond to the front, side, or rear yard requirement established in the Zoning Ordinance, and where they do not, the most restrictive requirement will control.
   3.   “Commission” means the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City.
   4.   “City datum” means the official benchmark for the City, located northeast of the Warren County Courthouse on the square. The elevation of this benchmark is 968.91 feet above sea level.
   5.   “Cul-de-sac” means a short minor street having one end open to motor traffic, the other end being permanently terminated by a vehicular turnaround.
   6.   “Easement” means authorization by a property owner for the use by another, and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of such owner’s property.
   7.   “Final plat” means the map or drawing on which the subdivision plan is presented in the form which, if approved by the Council and the Commission, will be filed and recorded with the County Recorder.
   8.   “Preliminary plat” means a study or drawings indicating the proposed manner or layout of the subdivision which is submitted to the Council and the Commission for consideration.
   9.   “Separate tract” means a parcel of land or a group of contiguous parcels of land under one ownership.
   10.   “Street” means a right-of-way other than an alley dedicated or otherwise legally established to be accepted for the public use, usually affording the principal means of access to abutting property. A street may be designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, collector, parkway, avenue, road, lane, drive, place or other appropriate designation.
   11.   “Thoroughfare” means a street intended for cross-county or through traffic as identified in the Comprehensive Plan.
   12.   “Collector street” means a street intended to carry vehicular traffic from residential streets to thoroughfares or traffic generators.
   13.   “Residential street” a street used primarily for access to abutting property.
   14.   “Commercial collector street” means a street used to carry traffic from residential collectors and thoroughfares to and through the commercial or business areas of the community.
   15.   “Street pavement” means the wearing or exposed surface of the street right-of-way used by vehicular traffic. The pavement width is measured from the back of the curb on one side to the back of the curb on the other side.
   16.   “Right-of-way” means the area measured between property lines, dedicated to and accepted for public use and providing access to abutting properties.
   17.   “Subdivider” means any person who shall lay out, for the purpose of sale or development, any subdivision or part thereof as defined herein, either for said person or others.
   18.   “Subdivision” means the division of a separate tract of land into three or more lots or parcels for the purpose of transfer of ownership or building development or, if a new road is involved, any division of a parcel of land.
   19.   “Plat of survey” means the graphical representation of a survey of one or more parcels of land, including a complete and accurate description of each parcel within the plat, prepared by a registered land surveyor.
   20.   “Comprehensive Plan” means the current version adopted by the City Council of the Comprehensive Plan and Master Street Plan.