For the purpose of this title, the following words, terms, phrases, and their derivations, shall have the meanings given in this section. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.
ALLEY: A public way used primarily as a service access to the rear or side of a property which abuts on a street.
ARTERIAL STREET: A major or secondary street that links collector streets with each other or with major thoroughfares. An arterial street can be a primary access route or a minor highway.
BLOCK: The distance as measured along a street between intersecting streets from centerline to centerline, and where the context requires, the term also means the enclosed area within the perimeter of the streets or property lines enclosing it.
BUILDING SETBACK LINE: A line within a lot or other parcel of land, so designated on the preliminary plan, between which line and the adjacent street the erection of an enclosed structure is prohibited.
CERTIFICATE OF REVIEW: An official letter of notification written by the chair of the plan commission to the subdivider advising him of the review, approval or disapproval, with an itemized statement of the deficiencies if disapproved, of his subdividing the area indicated on the location map.
CIRCULATION PLAN: The portion of the Mt. Pulaski comprehensive plan providing and planning for the present and future street system of the city and environs.
CITY ENGINEER: The professional engineer appointed or designated by the city council.
COLLECTOR STREET: A street that serves as a connection between a thoroughfare and several minor residential, industrial or commercial streets. The term includes the principal entrance streets of a residential development and principal circulating streets within such a development.
CUL-DE-SAC (DEAD END STREET): A minor street with only one outlet.
CURB AND GUTTER: A permanent type pavement edging.
DEAD END STREET: See definition of Cul-De-Sac (Dead End Street).
DRAINAGE COURSE: A natural watercourse or indenture for the drainage of surface waters.
EASEMENT: A grant by a property owner of the specific use of said land to the public generally or to a person or persons.
FINAL PLAN OR FINAL PLAT: The engineering drawing of a subdivision prepared in the manner and containing the data, documents and information required by chapter 6 of this title.
FREEHAND SKETCH: The penciled or rough drawing showing approximate street and lot layout superimposed upon a contour map of the proposed subdivision or greater area as suggested by chapter 4 of this title.
HALF STREET: A street bordering one or more property lines of a tract of land in which the subdivider has allocated but part of the ultimate right of way width in accordance with the requirements as set forth in chapter 7 of this title.
HEALTH OFFICER: The Illinois state public health department director or his authorized representative.
LOCATION MAP: A preliminary map or drawing of a proposed subdivision containing the data as required by chapter 4 of this title.
LOOP STREET: Any discontinuous minor street having only two (2) outlets to one other street. A "loop street" does not connect with more than one street.
LOT: The tract of land within a subdivision marked by the subdivider as a numbered, lettered or otherwise identifiable tract of land to be offered as a unit for sale or transfer of ownership or for building development.
LOT, BUTT: A lot at the end of a block and located between two (2) corner lots.
LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE: A lot which has a pair of opposite lot lines along two (2) substantially parallel streets and which is not a corner lot.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREET: A minor street which is parallel and adjacent to a thoroughfare and which provides access from the thoroughfare to abutting property and protection from through traffic.
MINOR STREET: A street of relatively short length and limited continuity that provides direct access to a limited number of abutting properties and for the local needs of a neighborhood and is designed to discourage use by through traffic.
OFFICIAL PLAN: The composite of the functional and geographic elements of the comprehensive city plan or any segment thereof in the form of plans, maps, charts and textual materials adopted by the city council.
OWNER: Any individual, firm, association, partnership, trust, corporation 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 this title.
PEDESTRIANWAY (PUBLIC CROSSWALK): A public right of way across or within a block designed primarily for use by pedestrian traffic.
PERSON: Any individual, firm, association, partnership, trust, corporation or any other legal entity.
PLAN COMMISSION: The city council.
PRELIMINARY PLAN: The tentative map, drawing or chart of a proposed subdivision of greater area prepared in the manner and containing the data, documents and information required by chapter 5 of this title.
PRIVATE STREET: An undedicated street which is privately owned and maintained.
PROTECTED COVENANTS: Contracts entered into between private parties that constitute a restriction on the use of all private property within a subdivision for the benefit of property owners and to provide mutual protection against undesirable aspects of development which would tend to impair stability of values.
PUBLIC CROSSWALK: See definition of Pedestrianway (Public Crosswalk).
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT: Any sanitary sewer, storm sewer, drainage ditch, water main, roadway, parkway, sidewalk, pedestrianway, planting strip, off street parking area, or other facility for which the city may ultimately assume the responsibility for maintenance and operation.
SANITARY SEWER: A constructed conduit for the carrying of sewerage, other than stormwaters, to a sewerage treatment plant.
STORM SEWER: A constructed conduit for carrying stormwaters to a drainage course.
SUBDIVIDE: See definition of Subdivision Of Land.
SUBDIVISION DESIGN STANDARDS: The guides, principles and specifications for the preparation of subdivision plans indicating, among other things, the maximum and minimum dimensions of the various elements set forth in the preliminary plan.
SUBDIVISION OF LAND: The division of land or a tract of land into two (2) or more parts, lots or parcels; any division of land when a new street is involved for the purpose of sale, transfer of ownership or building development. The term "subdivision" includes resubdivision and the division of a lot or parcel, any of which is less than five (5) acres in area. The following shall not be deemed a subdivision:
A. The sale or exchange of parcels or tracts of land on record and existing on or before July 17, 1959, into no more than two (2) parts and not involving any new streets or easements of access.
B. Public acquisition of streets or other rights of way which results in a parcel or parcels of less than five (5) acres.
C. Alteration of the lot lines in an approved subdivision, provided the provisions of this title or any other applicable ordinances are not violated.
THOROUGHFARE: A major or secondary street or road which is a public right of way with a high degree of continuity that serves as an arterial trafficway to the various districts of the city, as designated by the official city plan. (1977 Code; amd. 2010 Code)