Administrator: Staff of the Village of Lordstown designated to review and approve subdivisions.
Applicant: The owner of land proposed to be subdivided or its representative who shall have express written authority to act on behalf of the owner. Consent shall be required from the legal owner of the premises.
Association: An association or organization, whether or not incorporated, which operates under and pursuant to recorded covenants or deed restrictions through which each owner possesses a portion of a subdivision, be it a lot, parcel, unit, or any other interest, is automatically a member as a condition of ownership and each member is subject to a charge or assessment for a pro-rated share of expenses of the association which may become a lien against a lot, parcel, unit or other interest of the member.
Bedroom: Any room within a dwelling that might reasonably be used as a sleeping room including but not limited to rooms designated as a den, office or study.
Block: That property abutting one side of a street and lying between the two nearest intersecting streets, or between the nearest such street and railroad right-of-way, unsubdivided acreage, river or live stream, or between any of the foregoing and any other barrier to the continuity of development.
Block Frontage: Property abutting on one side of a street, and lying between the two nearest intersecting or intercepting streets, or between the nearest intersecting or intercepting street and railroad right-of-way, waterway, or other definite barrier.
Building: A structure designed to be used as a place of occupancy, storage or shelter.
Building, accessory: A subordinate building detached from but located on the same lot as the principal building, the use of which is incidental and accessory to that of the main building or use.
Building Site: A parcel under separate deed or description and having road frontage.
Building Line: Building Setback Line
Building, principal: A building in which is conducted the main or principal use of the lot on which said building is situated.
Capital Improvement: A public facility with a life expectancy of five or more years, to be owned and operated by or on behalf.
Commission: Village of Lordstown Planning Commission.
Conservation Subdivision: Grouping of houses, or other structures on part of the property while maintaining a large amount of open space on the remaining land.
Contiguous: Lots are contiguous when at least one boundary line of one lot touches a boundary line or lines of another lot.
Comprehensive Development Plan: A plan or any portion, thereof, adopted by the Planning Commission and the Village of Lordstown Council showing the general location and extent of present and proposed physical facilities, including housing, industrial, and commercial uses, major streets, parks, schools, and other community facilities. This plan establishes the goals, objectives, and policies of the community.
Condominium: Condominium means and includes the land, together with all buildings, improvements, and structures thereon, all easements, rights and appurtenances belonging thereto, and all articles of personal property which have been submitted to the provisions of Chapter 5311 of the Ohio Revised Code and which is subject to said Chapter 5311.
Contractor: The contractor is the developer or any person, firm, or corporation undertaking the construction of any or all phases of the work contained in these Subdivision Regulations.
Contours: Lines of equal elevation on maps, plats, and engineering designs.
Corner Lot: See Lot Types.
County: Trumbull County, Ohio.
Covenant: A written promise or pledge.
Cul-de-sac: See Thoroughfare.
Culvert: A transverse drain that channels under a bridge, street, or driveway.
Dead-end Street: See Thoroughfare.
Density: A unit of measurement; the number of dwelling units per acre of land.
(a) Gross Density: the number of dwelling units per acre of the total land to be developed.
(b) Net Density: the number of dwelling units per acre of land when the acreage involved includes only the land devoted to residential uses.
Density, Low Residential: Land to be utilized for residential purposes, including public housing, and industrialized units, which does not exceed two dwelling units per gross acres.
Density, Medium-Low Residential: Land to be utilized for residential purposes, including public housing and industrialized units, which does not exceed four dwelling units per gross acre. For the purpose of street design requirements, the medium-low density residential classification shall be considered as medium density.
Density, Medium Residential: Land to be utilized for residential purposes, including public housing and industrialized units, which does not exceed six dwelling units per gross acre.
Density, Medium-High Residential: Land to be utilized for residential purposes, including public housing and industrialized units, which does not exceed 12 dwelling units per gross acre. For the purposes of street design requirements, the medium-high density residential classification shall be considered as high density.
Density, High Residential: Land to be utilized for residential purposes, including public housing and industrialized units, which does not exceed 16 dwelling units per gross acre.
Design Standards: Criteria that sets forth specific improvement requirements.
Design Storm: A selected rainfall pattern of specified amount, intensity, duration, and frequency that is used as a basis of design.
Develop: To make a development; also to do any grading or filling of land, whether undeveloped or already subdivided, so as to change the drainage or the flow of water, or to do any work upon the land that is capable of serving as a subdivision or development of building sites in the future.
Developer: Any individual, sub-divider, firm association, syndicate, partnership, corporation, trust, or any other legal entity commencing proceedings under these regulations to effect a subdivision of land hereunder for himself or for another.
Driveway: A vehicular travel way used to provide access from a street to a dwelling unit or commercial or industrial activities. Driveways are designed for low travel speeds and are often used as, or are integral with, parking areas for vehicles.
Dwelling Unit: Space within a building comprising living, dining, sleeping and storage rooms as well as space and equipment for cooking, bathing, and toilet facilities, all used by only one family and its household employees.
Easement: A grant by the property owner of the use of a strip of land by the public, a corporation, or other persons, for a specified purpose.
Engineer: Any person registered to practice professional engineering by the state board of registration as specified in Section 4733.14, Ohio Revised Code.
Environmental Protection Agency: Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.)
Erosion: The wearing away of the earth’s soil surface by water, wind, gravity, or any other natural process.
Escrow: A deposit of cash with the Village of Lordstown or escrow agent to secure the promise to perform some act.
Fees in Lieu of Land: Payment of money into an earmarked fund to provide for acquisition/development of facilities off site in place of dedicating land or providing such facility on site.
FEMA: The Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Final Plat: A survey map or drawing of a subdivision prepared by a Registered Surveyor that conforms to the requirements and specifications of these Subdivision Regulations and Chapter 4733 of the Ohio Revised Code on which the developer’s subdivision is submitted to the Village of Lordstown Planning Commission for approval only after all requirements of these Subdivision Regulations have been satisfied and installed, and after such approval, presented to the Trumbull County Recorder for recording.
Flood: An overflowing of water, from watercourses, onto land which is normally dry.
Flood, 100-Year: The temporary inundation of normally dry land areas by a flood that is likely to occur once every 100 years (i.e., that has a one percent chance of occurring each year, although the flood may occur in any year.)
Flood Plain: Any land area susceptible to be inundated by water from the base flood. The term refers to that area designated as subject to flooding from the base flood (100-year flood) on the “Flood Boundary and Floodway Map” prepared by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Grade: The amount of rise or descent of a sloping land surface, usually measured as a percent where the numbered percent represents the amount of vertical rise or fall, in feet, for every 100 feet horizontally. For example, a one foot vertical rise over one hundred horizontal feet represents a one percent slope.
HDPE: High Density Polyethylene Pipe with smooth invert.
Health Department: Trumbull County Health District.
Highway Director: The Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation.
Highway Plan: See “Major Thoroughfare Plan”.
Highway, Limited Access: A freeway, expressway or major arterial providing a traffic way for through traffic, in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting property on land and other persons, have no legal right of access to or from the same, except at such points and in such manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction of the traffic way.
Homeowners Association: See “Association”.
Improvement Plans: (Also known as development plans) The maps or drawings showing the specific location and design of improvements to be installed in a subdivision in accordance with the requirements of these Subdivision Regulations as a condition of plat approval.
Improvements: Street pavement, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, water lines, sewer lines, storm drains, street lights, flood control for drainage facilities, utility lines, landscaping, and other related matters normally associated with the development of raw land into building sites.
Inspector: The Inspector is the authorized representative of the Road Commissioner, the Board of Public Affairs and/or County Sanitary Engineer, assigned to make a detailed inspection of any or all portions of the work or materials thereof.
Location Map: See Vicinity Map.
Lot: For the purpose of these Regulations, a lot is a “Lot of Record”, or a parcel of land, described and recorded in the Office of the Trumbull County Recorder and listed as a single unit on the Trumbull County Auditor’s Tax Duplicate, of sufficient size to meet minimum health, zoning and subdivision requirements for use, coverage and area, and to provide such yards and other open space as herein required. Such lot shall have a frontage on an improved public street, or an approved private street.
Lot Area: The area of a lot computed exclusive of any portion of the right-of-way of any public or private street.
Lot Depth: The mean horizontal distance between the road right of way line and rear lines of a lot.
Lot Frontage: The uninterrupted portion of a lot that abuts the right-of-way of a public road or platted and recorded private road, in which the distance between the side property lines is measured along the right-of-way line and parallel to the centerline of such public or platted and recorded private road.
Lot Measurements: A lot shall be measured as follows:
(a) Depth of a lot: The distance between the mid-points of straight lines connecting the foremost points of the side lot lines in front and the rearmost points of the side lot lines in the rear.
(b) Width of a lot: The distance between straight lines connecting front and rear lot lines at each side of the lot, measured at the road right of way line, provided, however, that the width between side lot lines at their closest point shall not be less than the required lot width except as provided for a cul-de-sac herein.
(c) Lot Frontage: The uninterrupted portion of a lot that abuts the right-of-way of a public road or platted and recorded private road, in which the distance between the side property lines is measured along the right-of-way line and parallel to the centerline of such public or platted and recorded private road.
Lot of Record: A lot, in which the boundaries are shown as being a part of a subdivision plat recorded in the Office of the Trumbull County Recorder or a parcel of land described by metes and bounds, the description of which has been so recorded by Deed or other instrument of conveyance in the Office of the Trumbull County Recorder and listed as a single unit on the Trumbull County Auditor’s Tax Duplicate.
Lot Types: Terminology used in these regulations with reference to corner lots, interior lots and through lots is as follows:
(a) Corner Lot: A lot located at the intersection of two or more streets. A lot abutting on a curved street or streets shall be considered a corner lot if straight lines drawn from the foremost points of the side lot lines to the foremost point of the lot meet at an interior angle of less than one hundred thirty-five (135) degrees.
(b) Interior Lot: A lot other than a corner lot with only one frontage on a street.
(c) Through Lot: A lot other than a corner lot with frontage on more than one street. Through lots abutting two streets may be referred to as double frontage lots.
(d) Reversed Frontage Lot: A lot on which frontage is at right angles to the general pattern in the area. A reversed frontage lot may also be a corner lot.
(e) Flag Lot: A lot whose only frontage on a public street is through a narrow strip of land which is generally wide enough to accommodate a driveway, but too narrow to accommodate any structures. The narrow strip of land is referred to as the panhandle.
Lot Width: The horizontal distance between apposing side boundary lines of a lot.
Major Subdivision: A subdivision as defined in, and subject to the platting requirements of Section 711 of the Ohio Revised Code.
Major Thoroughfare Plan: The Comprehensive Plan adopted by the Village of Lordstown Road Department and the Planning Commission indicating the general location recommended for arterial, collector, and local thoroughfares within the unincorporated area of the Village.
Maintenance Bond: An agreement by a sub-divider or developer with the Village guaranteeing the maintenance of physical improvements for a period of two (2) year from the release of the performance bond.
Minor Subdivision: A division of a parcel of land that requires the approval of the Village Planning Administrator in accordance with Section 711.131, Ohio Revised Code. Also known as Lot Split.
Monuments: Permanent concrete or iron markers used to establish all lines of the plat in a subdivision, including all lot corners, and points of change in street alignment.
Open Space: An area open to the sky which may be on the same lot with a building. The area may include, along with the natural environmental features, swimming pools, tennis courts, and any other recreational facilities that the planning commission deems permissive. Streets, structures for habitation, and the like shall not be included.
Original Tract: A parcel of land as shown on the Trumbull County Auditors Tax Duplicate at the end of the previous year.
Out Lot: Property shown on a subdivision plat outside of the boundaries of the land which is to be developed and which is to be excluded from the development of the subdivision.
Owner: Any individual, firm, association, syndicate, co-partnership, corporation, trust or any other legal entity having sufficient proprietary interest in the land sought to be subdivided to commence and maintain proceedings to subdivide the same under these Subdivision Regulations.
Parcel: Any piece of land described by metes and bounds, the description of which has been so recorded by deed or other instrument of conveyance in the Office of the Trumbull County Recorder and listed as a single unit on the Trumbull County Auditor’s Tax Duplicate.
Parking Space, Off-Street: For the purpose of these Subdivision Regulations, an off- street parking space shall consist of an area adequate for parking an automobile with room for opening doors on both sides, together with properly related access to a public street and maneuvering room, but shall be located totally outside of any street.
(Ord. 29-2013. Passed 4-1-13.)
Performance Bond or Surety Bond: An agreement by a developer with the Village of Lordstown for the amount of the estimated construction cost (as approved by the Road Commissioner, the Board of Public Affairs and/or County Sanitary Engineer) guaranteeing the completion of physical improvements according to plans and specifications within the time prescribed by the sub-divider's agreement. (Ord. 29-2013. Passed 4-1-13.)
Performance Guarantee: Any security that may be accepted by the Village as a guarantee that the improvements required as part of an application for development that will be completed according to Village of Lordstown standards.
Person: An individual, trustee, executor, other fiduciary, corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization, or other entity acting as a unit.
Plan: A map or drawing of a proposed subdivision, intended for review purposes only.
Planned Unit Development: An area of land, in which a variety of housing types and/or related commercial and industrial facilities are accommodated in a pre-planned environment under more flexible standards, such as lot size and setbacks, than those restrictions that would normally apply under these Subdivision Regulations. The procedure for approval of such development contains requirements in addition to those of the standard subdivision, such as building design principles and landscaping plans. (This district requires a separate zoning classification) Planning & Zoning Administrator (Inspector): The zoning inspector of the Village of Lordstown appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Village of Lordstown Council.
Planning and Zoning Administrator (Inspector): The zoning inspector of the Village of Lordstown appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Village of Lordstown Council.
Plat: A survey map or drawing prepared by a Registered Surveyor that conforms to the requirements and specifications of these Subdivision Regulations and Chapter 4733 of the Ohio Administrative Code.
Preliminary Plan: A map or drawing of a proposed subdivision, including both narrative and site design information, intended to provide the Planning Commission with an understanding of the manner in which the site in question is to be developed. This plan shall show improvements intended to be constructed at the development site.
Public Improvement: Any roadway, storm drainage sewers and facilities, sanitary sewers, water main, sidewalk, pedestrian way, parkway, trees or any other facility or appurtenance for which the local government may ultimately assume the responsibility for maintenance and operation.
Public Way: An avenue, boulevard, bridge, channel, ditch, easement, expressway, freeway, highway, land, parkway, right-of-way, road, sidewalk, street, subway, tunnel, viaduct, walk, or other ways in which the general public entity have a right, or which are dedicated, whether improved or not. (See “Right-of-Way”.)
Registered Engineer: An Engineer properly licensed and registered in the State of Ohio.
Replat: A plat, in which the boundary or property lines of any previously platted lot or subdivision are changed. It may include all or any part of a previous recorded subdivision or plat.
Reserve Strip: An area of land adjacent to a public right-of-way which is retained in ownership by the sub-divider for the purpose of denying access to the adjacent land shall not be permitted.
Right-of-Way: A strip of land taken or dedicated for use as a public or private roadway. In addition to the roadway, it normally incorporates the curbs, lawn strips, sidewalks, lighting and drainage facilities, utility easements and may include special features such as grade separation, landscaped areas, viaducts, and bridges.
Rip-Rap: A permanent erosion resistant groundcover of large, loose, angular stone with filter fabric or compacted granular underlining.
Road: See “Thoroughfare, Street or Road”.
Sediment Basin: A temporary Barrier or dam with a controlled storm water release structure formed by constructing an embankment or compacted soil across the drainage way.
Setback Line: A line established by the subdivision and/or zoning regulations, generally parallel with and measured from the lot line, defining the limits of a yard in which no building or structure, other than an accessory building, may be located above ground.
Sewers, Central or Group: An approved sewage disposal system which provides a collection net-work and disposal system and central sewage treatment facility for a single development, community or region.
Sewers, On-Site: A septic tank or similar installation on an individual lot which utilizes an aerobic bacteriological process, or an equally satisfactory process, for the elimination of sewage, and provides for the proper and safe disposal of the effluent, subject to the approval of health and sanitation officials having jurisdiction.
Sidewalk: That portion of the road right-of-way outside the roadway, which is improved for the use of pedestrian traffic.
Silt Fence: A temporary sediment barrier consisting of a filter fabric stretched across and attached to a post and entrenched.
Sketch Plan: An informal drawing which shows how a developer proposes to subdivide a property and which gives sufficient site information for the planning commission representatives to offer suggestions for site development. This step is optional.
Slippage Potential: The potential which land has to move, under the force of gravity, should it be disturbed during construction activity.
Stopping Sight Distance: The distance down a roadway for which a motorist is able to have unobstructed sight. Stopping sight distance is reduced by vertical and horizontal road curvature, fixed objects on the side of the road, and overhanging vegetation.
Streams or Surface Water Courses: Are those with a well defined bed and bank, either natural or artificial, which confines and conducts continuous or periodical flowing water in such a way that terrestrial vegetation cannot establish roots within the channel.
Street: See “Thoroughfare, Street or Road”.
Subdivider: Any individual, developer, firm, association, syndicate, partnership, corporation, trust, or any other legal entity commencing proceedings under these regulations to affect a subdivision of land hereunder for himself or for another.
Subdivision: (O.R.C. 711.001)
(a) The division of any parcel of land shown as a unit or as contiguous units on the last preceding tax roll, into two (2) or more parcels, sites, or lots, any one of which is less than five (5) acres, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership, provided, however, that the division or partition of land into parcels of more than five (5) acres not involving any new streets or easements of access, and the sale or exchange of parcels between adjoining lot owners, where such sale or exchange of parcels between adjoining lot owners, where such sale or exchange does not create additional building sites, shall be exempted;
(b) The improvement of one or more parcels of land for residential, commercial, or industrial structures or groups of structures involving the division or allocation of land for the opening, widening, or extension of any street(s) serving industrial structures; the division or allocation of land as open spaces for common use by owners, occupants, or lease holders, or as easements for the extension and maintenance of public sewer, water, storm drain-age, or other public facilities.
Surveyor: Any person registered to practice surveying by the State Board of Registration as specified in Section 4733.02 of the Ohio Revised Code.
Tract: The term is used to describe a larger area of land, particularly in the context of subdivisions, where one “tract” is subdivided into several “ parcels or lots.”
Technical Review Committee: A committee representing the Village engineer, the County Health department, the Planning Administrator, the Sanitary Engineer and the Road Commissioner who shall meet informally with developers or property owners proposing a major subdivision, a commercial or industrial subdivision, or a minor subdivision on which the Planning Administrator requires additional information. The technical review committee shall make recommendations and offer assistance to the planning commission.
Terrain Classification: Terrain within the entire area of the preliminary plat is classified as level, rolling, hilly, or hillside for street design purposes. The classifications are as follows:
(a) Level: Land which has a cross slope range of four (4) percent or less;
(b) Rolling: Land which has a cross slope range of more than four (4) percent but not more than eight (8) percent;
(c) Hilly: Land which has a cross slope range of more than eight (8) percent but not more than fifteen (15) percent;
(d) Hillside: Land which has a cross slope range of more than fifteen (15) percent.
Thoroughfare, Street, or Road: The full width between property lines bounding every dedicated travel-way, with a part thereof to be used for vehicular traffic and designated as follows:
(a) Arterial Street: A general term denoting a highway primarily for through traffic, carrying heavy loads and large volume of traffic, usually on a continuous route. Design speed is generally 55 miles per hour.
(b) Collector Street: A thoroughfare, whether within 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 within residential subdivisions. Design speed is generally 35 miles per hour.
(c) Cul-de-Sac: A local street of relatively short length with one (1) end open to traffic and the other end terminating in a vehicular turnaround. Design speed is generally 25 miles per hour.
(d) Dead-end Street: A street temporarily having only one (1) outlet for vehicular traffic and in-tended to be extended or continued in the future.
(e) Local Street: A street primarily for providing access to residential, commercial, or other abutting property. Design speed is generally 25 miles per hour.
(f) Loop Street: A type of local street each end of which terminated at an intersection with the same arterial or collector street, and whose principal radius points of the one hundred and eighty (180) degree system of turns are not more than three thousand (3000) feet from said arterial or collector street, nor normally more than six hundred (600) feet from each other.
(g) Marginal Access Street: 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. (Also called Frontage Street.)
(h) Private Road or Driveway: Every way or place in private ownership used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having express or implied permission from the owner but not by other persons.
(i) Street or Highway: The entire width between the boundary lines of every way open to the use of the public as a thoroughfare for the purpose of vehicular travel.
Through Lot: See “Lot Types”.
Vicinity Map: A drawing located on the plat which sets forth by dimensions or other means, the relationship of the proposed subdivision or use to other nearby developments or landmarks and community facilities and services within the county in order to better locate and orient the area in question.
Waiver: A modification of the strict terms of the relevant regulations where such modification will not be contrary to the public interest and where owing to conditions peculiar to the property and not the result of the action of the applicant, a literal enforcement of the regulations would result in unnecessary and undue hardship.
Watershed: The drainage basin in which the subdivision drains or that land whose drainage is affected by the subdivision.
Wetland: An area of land, as defined by the federal definition at the time of preliminary plan submission, inundated by water for a portion of each year resulting in the land possessing unique soil and vegetative types.
Yard: A required open space other than a court unoccupied and unobstructed by any structure from six (6) inches above the general ground level of the graded lot upward, provided, accessories, ornaments, and furniture may be permitted in any yard, subject to height limitations and requirements limiting obstructions of visibility.
(a) Yard, Front: A yard extending between side lot lines across the front of a lot and from the front lot line (Road right of way) to the front of the principal building.
(b) Yard, Rear: A yard extending between side lot lines across the rear of a lot and from the rear lot line to the rear of the principal building.
(c) Yard, Side: A yard extending from the principal building to the side lot line on both sides of the principal building between the lines establishing the front and rear yards.
Zoning Inspector (Assistant): The person hired by the Mayor and confirmed by the Village of Lordstown Council to assist and work under the direction of the Planning & Zoning Administrator.
(Ord. 56-2005. Passed 10-3-05.)
(Ord. 56-2005. Passed 10-3-05.)