For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. An alley is a public right-of-way, which affords a secondary means of access to abutting property.
BLOCK. A block is an area of land within a subdivision that is entirely bounded exterior boundary or boundaries of the subdivision, public ways, outlots, parks, or bodies of water.
CITY ENGINEER. The City Engineer is a professional engineer as designated by the City Council.
COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN. The comprehensive plan prepared and adopted by the Planning Commission and approved by the Council which indicates the general locations recommended for the various functional classes of public works, places and structures and for the general physical development of the city and included any unit or part of the plan separately adopted and any amendment to the plans or parts thereof.
DEFLECTION ANGLE. The angle between a line and the prolongation of the preceding line.
DESIGN STANDARDS. The specifications to land owners or subdivider for the preparation of plats, both preliminary and final, indicating among other things, the optimum minimum or maximum dimensions of the items as rights-of-way, blocks, easements, and lots.
EASEMENT. A grant by a property owner for the use of a strip of land for the purpose of constructing and maintaining utilities, including, but not limited to electric lines, telephone lines, storm sewer or storm drainage ways, gas lines, and walkways.
FINAL PLAT. A drawing or map of a subdivision, meeting all the requirements of the city and in the form as required by the city for purposes of recording.
HARDSHELL. The white mat card stock on which a final plat is prepared and when appropriate signatures are affixed, is presented to the County Recorder for official recording.
LOT. A tract, plot, or portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land intended as a unit for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership, or possession, or for building development.
MYLAR. A reproducible copy of the plat that is produced by a photographic process.
PERCENTAGE OF GRADE. Percentage of grade on street centerline means the distance vertically (up or down) from the horizontal in feet and tenths of a foot for each 100 feet of horizontal distance.
PEDESTRIAN WAY. A public or private right-of-way across a block or within a block to provide access, to be used by pedestrians and which may be used for the installation of utility lines.
PLANNING AGENCY. The Planning Commission of the City of Madison Lake.
PLANNING COMMISSION. The Planning Commission of the City of Madison Lake.
PRELIMINARY PLAT. The preliminary map, drawing, or chart indicating the proposed layout of the subdivision to be submitted to the Planning Commission for its consideration.
PROTECTIVE COVENANTS. Contracts made between private parties as to the manner in which land may be used, with the view to protecting and preserving the physical, social, and economic integrity of any given area.
SEPIA. Refers to a reproducible copy of the plat, which can be produced by processing through a blue line machine.
STREET. A public right-of-way affording primary access by pedestrians and vehicles to abutting properties, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, boulevard, land, place, or however otherwise designated.
STREET CUL-DE-SAC. A minor street with only 1 outlet and having an appropriate terminal for the safe and convenient reversal of traffic movement.
STREET FRONTAGE ROADS. Minor streets, which are parallel and adjacent to arterial streets, and highways and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
STREET, LOCAL STREET. Serves to provide access to abutting properties from the higher order systems.
STREET URBAN COLLECTOR. Distributes trips from the arterial through the area to the ultimate destination, which may be on a local street.
STREET URBAN MINOR ARTERIAL. A street, which interconnects with and augments the urban principal arterial system and provides service to trips of moderate length with lower level of travel than principal arterial. This system distributes travel to smaller geographical areas than the principal arterial street.
STREET URBAN PRINCIPAL ARTERIAL. A street urban principal arterial is a street, which serves the major center of activity of a metropolitan area, contains the highest traffic volume corridors, and has the longest trips.
STREET WIDTH. The street width is the shortest distance between the street right-of-way.
SUBDIVISION. A described tract of land which is to be divided into 2 or more lots or parcels, any of which resultant parcels is less than 5 acres in area, for the purpose of transfer of ownership or building development or, if a new street is involved, any division of a parcel of land. The term includes re-subdivision and, where it is appropriate to the context, related either to the process of subdividing or to the land subdivided. A SUBDIVISION is the separation of an area, parcel, or tract of land under single ownership into 2 or more parcels, tracts, lots, or long-term leasehold interests where the creation of the leasehold interest necessitates the creation of streets, roads, or alleys, for residential, commercial, industrial, or other use or any combination thereof, except those separations:
(1) Where all the resulting parcels, tracts, lots, or interests will be 20 acres or larger in size and 500 feet in width for residential uses and 5 acres or larger in size and 300 feet in width for commercial and industrial uses;
(2) Creating cemetery lots; and
(3) Resulting from court orders or the adjustment of a lot line by the relocation of a common boundary.
SURVEYOR. A land surveyor who is properly licensed with the State of Minnesota.
TANGENT. A straight line projected from the ends of two (2) curves, which is perpendicular to a line in each curve drawn from the radii point to the end of the curve.
U.S.G.S. DATUM. The United States Geological Survey Datum.
VERTICAL CURVE. The surface curvature on a street centerline located between lines of different percentage of grade.
(Ord. 217, passed 11-5-2001; Am. Ord. passed 2- -2004; Am. Ord. passed 4-5-2004; Am. Ord. passed 9-7-2004)