For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
A. Streets and Alleys. The term "street" means a way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, place or otherwise.
1. "Arterial streets and highways" are those which are used primarily for large volumes of traffic. For development purposes, arterial streets are generally located along section lines.
2. "Collector streets" are those which carry moderately high volumes of traffic and, for development purposes, are generally located along half section lines.
3. "Residential collector streets" are those which cany moderate volumes of traffic between local streets and collectors or arterials. For development purposes, these streets are generally located halfway between collector or arterial streets.
4. "Local streets" are those which are used primarily for access to abutting properties. This categoiy carries low traffic volumes and includes residential or industrial streets.
5. "Marginal access streets" are minor streets which are parallel to and adjacent to arterial streets and highways and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
6. "Cul-de-sac" is a local street with only one outlet and having an appropriate vehicle turnaround terminal for the safe and convenient reversal of traffic flows.
7. "Alleys" are minor ways which are used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
8. Pavement widths shall be measured back to back of curbs, where curbs are required.
B. "Flood plain" or "floodway" means those areas within the corporate boundaries of the city which are subject to flooding as delineated and identified in the Federal Emergency Management Agency Flood Insurance Study for the City of Lovington, date August 30, 1999.
C. "Subdivide" or "subdivision," for the purpose of approval by a municipal planning authority, means:
1. For the area of land within the corporate boundaries of the municipality, the division of land into two or more parts by platting or by metes and bounds description into tracts for the purposes set forth in subsection D of this section; and
2. For the area of land within the municipal extraterritorial subdivision and platting jurisdiction, the division of land into two or more parts by platting or by metes and bounds description into tracts of less than five acres in any one calendar year for the purposes set forth in subsection C of this section.
D. The division of land pursuant to subsection (C)(1) or (2) of this section shall be for the purposes of:
1. Sale;
2. Laying out a municipality or any part thereof;
3. Adding to a municipality;
4. Laying out of lots; or
5. Resubdivision.
(Ord. 447 (part), 2003)