As used in these Subdivision Regulations, the following terms are defined as follows:
(a) Alley: A minor right-of-way dedicated to public use which gives a secondary means to vehicle access to the back or side of properties otherwise abutting a street, and which may be used for public utility purposes.
(b) Block: A parcel of land, intended to be used for urban purposes, which is entirely surrounded by public streets, highways, public walks, parks, rural land or drainage channels or a combination thereof.
(c) Building Line: A line or lines designating the area outside of which buildings may not be erected.
(d) Development: The erection or construction of buildings; or the erection or construction of additions to existing buildings where outer walls are added or altered as to location, but not including alterations or remodeling of buildings where said outer walls are not added or altered as to location.
(e) Easement: A grant by the property owner to the public, a corporation, or persons, of the use of an area of land for specific purposes.
(f) Lot: A subdivision of a block or other parcel intended as a unit for the transfer of ownership or for development.
(g) Lot, corner: A lot located at the intersection of and abutting two or more streets.
(h) Lot depth: The average distance from the street line of the lot to its rear line, measured in the general direction of sidelines of the lot.
(i) Lot, double frontage: A lot which runs through a block from street to street and which has frontage on two or more streets, but not a corner lot.
(j) Lot, reverse frontage: A corner lot of such size and shape that a building erected on it might logically be designed to face on either adjoining street, thus causing the building to rear on the sideline of any abutting lot.
(k) Lot line adjustment: A relocation of the lot lines of two or more lots included in a plat which is filed of record, for the purpose of making necessary adjustments to building sites.
(l) Official Community Plan: The development plan for the City of Lewisburg which has been officially adopted to provide short and long range development policies for areas within the corporate limits.
(m) Off site improvements: Any utility, structure, or modification of topography located other than on the development site it is intended to serve.
(n) Planning Commission: The Planning Commission of the City of Lewisburg.
(o) Planned Development: A method of residential subdivision which permits variation in lot sizes without an increase in overall density of development.
(p) Plat, final: A map of land subdivision giving, in form suitable for filing in the office of the County Clerk, necessary affidavits, dedications, and acceptances, and delineating the layout of such subdivision as required within.
(q) Plat, preliminary: A map of a proposed subdivision showing the character and proposed layout of the tract in sufficient detail to indicate the relationship of the proposed development to topography, existing streets, existing drainage, utilities, zoning, easements of record and to indicate the nature of the land planning design.
(r) Reserve strip: A strip of land located next to an adjacent public easement or right of way which has the effect of denying access to adjacent property owners to said public easement or right of way. Reserve strips shall be prohibited.
(s) Setback line: A line or lines designating the outer limits of street and highway right of way requirements.
(t) Street: Any public or private right of way, which provides the primary means of access to abutting property.
(u) Street, collector: A minor street collecting traffic from other minor or local streets and serving as the most direct route to a major street or community activity center.
(v) Street, cul de sac: A local street having one closed end terminated by a turn around.
(w) Street, half: A street where the full cross section, curb to curb, is constructed in more than one phase.
(x) Street, local: A minor street which collects and distributes traffic between parcels of land and collector or arterial streets, with the principal purpose to provide access to abutting property.
(y) Street, major: A primary or secondary arterial roadway as designated on the official community plan or as designated by the City of Lewisburg.
(z) Street, public: Any pre existing county roadway heretofore annexed by the City of Lewisburg, and which form a part of the City by reason of such annexation, or any street or road granted to and accepted by the City Council of the City of Lewisburg.
(aa) Subdivider (developer): Any person, firm, corporation partnership or any other entity acting as a unit, subdividing or proposing to subdivide land.
(bb) Subdivision: The division or redivision of land by lots, tracts, sites, parcels for the purpose of the transfer of ownership, or for urban development or for the dedication or vacation of a public or private easement or right of way.
(Passed 2-15-94.)