(a) Easement. "Easement" means authorization by a property owner for the use of any designated part of his or her property by someone else for a specified purpose.
(b) Public way. "Public way" means any alley, avenue, bikeway, boulevard, bridge, channel, ditch, easement, expressway, freeway, highway land, parkway, right-of-way, road, sidewalk, street, subway, tunnel, viaduct, wall or other way in which the general public or a public entity has a right or which is dedicated, whether improved or not.
(c) Right-of-way. "Right-of-way" means a strip of land taken or dedicated for use as a public way. In addition to the roadway, it normally incorporates the curbs, lawn strips, sidewalks and lighting and drainage facilities and may include special features (required by the topography or treatment) such as grade separation, landscaped areas, viaducts and bridges.
(d) Sidewalk. "Sidewalk" means that portion of a road right-of-way outside the roadway, which is improved for the use of pedestrian traffic. (See "walkway.")
(e) Thoroughfare, street or road; approved private drive.
(1) Approved private drive. “Approved private drive” means the full width of an easement with a part thereof being paved as a private drive and not dedicated to the city for public use, providing access to residential or other abutting property in those subdivisions which were authorized to construct approved private drives in lieu of dedicated streets prior to the adoption of Ordinance No. 10-O-35, passed on 7-12-2010.
(Am. Ord. 13-O-60, passed 12-16-2013)
(2) Street or road thoroughfare. "Street or road thoroughfare" means the full width between property lines, bounding a public way or the full width of the right-of-way dedicated to the city with a part thereof to be used for vehicular traffic. Street or road thoroughfares may be designated as follows:
A. Arterial street. "Arterial street" means a highway primarily for through traffic, carrying heavy loads and a large volume of traffic, usually on a continuous route.
B. Collector street. "Collector street" means a thoroughfare in a residential, industrial, commercial or other type of development, which primarily carries traffic from local streets to arterial streets, including the principal entrance and circulation routes in residential subdivisions.
C. Cul-de-sac. "Cul-de-sac" means a local street with one end open to traffic and the other end terminating in a vehicular turn-around.
D. Dead-end street. "Dead-end street" means a street temporarily having only one outlet for vehicular traffic and intended to be extended or continued in the future.
E. Half street. "Half street" means a street for which only a portion of the required right-of-way width has been dedicated.
F. Local street. "Local street" means a street primarily for providing access to residential, commercial or other abutting property.
G. Marginal access street. "Marginal access street" means a local or collector street, parallel and adjacent to an arterial or collector street, providing access to abutting properties and protection from arterial or collector streets.
(f) Walkway. "Walkway" means a dedicated public way, four feet or more in width, for pedestrian use only, whether or not along the side of a road.
(Ord. 11-O-1, passed 2-23-2011)