Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, as used in these Subdivision Regulations:
(a) Block. "Block" means an area of property, usually containing lots, and bounded on at least three sides (or the equivalent) by one or more streets or other definite barriers.
(b) Building Line. "Building line" means the line across a lot establishing the minimum open space to be provided between the street right-of-way line and the foremost line of a building or structure.
(c) Commission, Planning. "Planning Commission" means the Planning Commission of the City.
(d) Comprehensive Plan. "Comprehensive Plan" means the complete plan, or any of its parts, prepared by the Planning Commission to guide the physical development and redevelopment of the community, as evidenced by the minutes, actions, resolutions, maps, plans, reports and other official acts and documents of the Commission.
(e) Developer. "Developer" means a person, corporation, partnership, association or other entity or any responsible person therein or agent therefor who or which undertakes the activities covered by these Subdivision Regulations. "Developer" is intended to include, but not necessarily be limited to, the terms "subdivider," "owner" and "builder," even though the individuals involved in successive stages of the project may vary.
(f) Easement. "Easement" means a grant of the right to use a portion of a parcel of land (usually a strip) for specified purposes, to the public, a corporation, a utility or a person.
(g) Lot. "Lot" means a portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land intended as a unit for the purpose of conveyance, transfer, improvement, development or sale. Specifically:
(1) "Double frontage lot" means a lot having frontage on two nonintersecting streets.
(2) "Reverse frontage lot" means a double frontage lot having a structure facing the opposite street from the majority of structures in the block.
(h) Plan of Lots, Final. "Final plan of lots" means a complete and exact subdivision plan prepared as required by these Subdivision Regulations and other applicable statutes.
(i) Plan of Lots, Preliminary. "Preliminary plan of lots" means a tentative subdivision plan prepared as required by these Subdivision Regulations by a person qualified by training and experience as a land planner.
(j) Planning District. "Planning District" means a compact area of the community, undivided by main highways or other major physical barriers, and designated in the Comprehensive Plan for a specific use, such as a residential neighborhood, commercial district or industrial district.
(k) Street. "Street" means a right of way intended primarily for vehicular traffic which may or may not have a paved cartway, sidewalks, utilities and other improvements. A street may be designated by other appropriate names, such as highway, thoroughfare, boulevard, parkway, road, avenue, drive, lane or place. The following functional classifications are herein used:
(1) Loop, radial, cross-connector and cross-connector link streets are major streets for circulation outside of residential neighborhoods and other planning districts.
(2) Local major streets are streets for major circulation within but not through residential neighborhoods and other planning districts, and providing access to cross-connector link streets.
Within this classification there are two types: Class A designed for circulation through residential neighborhoods or planning districts and for carrying the heavier traffic volumes; and Class B designed to serve as "bleeder" streets to relieve the volumes developed on the Class A streets and to distribute the traffic to other classifications of streets.
(3) Minor streets are those streets which are used primarily for access to the abutting properties and which serve to distribute traffic to local major streets.
(4) Marginal access streets are streets located adjacent and parallel to a controlled access highway for the purpose of providing access to the properties between interchange points on the highway.
(l) Subdivision. "Subdivision" means the division or redivision of a lot, tract or parcel of land by any means into two or more lots, tracts, parcels or other divisions of land, including changes in existing lot lines, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of lease, transfer of ownership or building or lot development, provided, however, that the division of land for agricultural purposes into parcels of more than ten acres, not involving any new street or easement of access, shall be exempted.
(m) Subdivision Regulations. "Subdivision Regulations" means Ordinance 3703, passed October 27, 1966, as amended, codified herein as Title Four of Part Twelve - the Planning and Zoning Code.
(Ord. 4398. Passed 9-10-86.)