For the purpose of this Title, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
ALLEY: A public way used primarily as a service access to the rear or side of a property which abuts on a street.
ARTERIAL ROADWAY NETWORK PLAN: The portion of the Official Village Plan providing and planning for the present and future system of streets for the Village.
AS-BUILT PLANS: Final plans showing any changes from the construction plans, indicating in detail how the project was constructed. Such plans show all public facilities as-built on the surface and underground, both on public property and on easements and also indicate all private utility locations that are known. Details shown include: sanitary and storm sewers, manholes, invert grades, bench marks, location of sanitary sewer laterals, street inlets, hydrants, general flow of surface water and grades for drainage swales on the lot. The "as-built plans" carry the seal of a registered professional engineer certifying that construction was completed in conformance with the plans and specifications.
BLOCK: A tract of land bounded by streets or by a combination of streets, parks, railroad rights of way or bodies of water.
COLLECTOR STREETS: Streets penetrating neighborhoods collecting traffic from local streets and channeling it into the arterial street system. A minor amount of through traffic may be expected, but collector streets primarily provide land access service and carry local traffic movements within residential neighborhoods and commercial and industrial areas.
CONSTRUCTION PLANS: The drawings prepared in the manner and containing the data, documents and information required by Chapter 4 of this Title.
COVENANTS: A private agreement written into the deed in which property owners of the development promise to do or refrain from doing certain acts.
CUL-DE-SAC: A permanent street with a single access point that ends in a turnaround and cannot be further extended without taking property not dedicated as a street. A cul-de-sac begins at its point of intersection with a street with multiple access.
DEDICATE: To transfer ownership of land, either fee simple or a partial interest, for a public use and for a public body to accept it for that public use.
DRAINAGE COURSE: A natural watercourse, swale, depression or ditch for the drainage of surface waters and storm waters.
EASEMENT: A liberty, privilege or advantage which a party or the general public may have regarding the land of another. The remainder of the rights in the land remain in the hands of the owner who retains the legal title.
EXISTING TOWNSHIP HIGHWAY: Any public road in the township which is owned and maintained by the township.
FINAL PLAT: The drawing of a subdivision prepared in the manner and containing the data, documents and information required by this Title showing lots of record and which is to be recorded.
FLAG LOT: A lot located behind another lot or parcel with access to a public street only by a narrow strip of land extending from the buildable area of the lot to the street.
LARGE SCALE DEVELOPMENT: A form of land subdivision which involves the construction of a multi-family or commercial building on a lot or parcel of land one acre or more in size or two (2) or more principal multi-family or commercial buildings on a lot or parcel of land of any size served by an internal street and utility distribution.
LOCAL STREETS: Streets not classified in a higher system which primarily provide direct access to abutting land and access to higher types of roadways. They offer the lowest level of mobility being the narrowest and shortest streets in the street system. Service to through traffic is deliberately discouraged.
LOCATION MAP: A preliminary drawing or map of a proposed subdivision containing the data and information required by this Title.
LOT: The tract within a subdivision marked by the subdivider as a numbered tract to be offered as a unit of land for sale or transfer of ownership.
MAJOR ARTERIAL STREETS AND ROADWAYS: The highest traffic volume corridors serving major activity centers and the longest trip distances. Service to abutting land is subordinate to the provision of travel service to major traffic movements. They are normally spaced on a one mile grid pattern and may include expressways.
MINOR ARTERIAL STREETS AND HIGHWAYS: Streets and roadways which interconnect with and augment the major arterial street system and provide service trips of moderate length at a somewhat lower level of travel mobility than major arterials. Minor arterials place more emphasis on land access and distribute travel to geographic areas smaller than those identified with major arterials.
OFFICIAL PLAN or COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: The Pawnee, Illinois, Comprehensive Plan, if such a plan is adopted.
OWNER: Any or all persons, entities, trusts or corporations holding legal title to the land to be subdivided. If the owner is a trust, all beneficiaries shall be listed as owners. If the owner is a corporation, all principals and officers shall be listed as owners.
PAVEMENT WIDTH: The distance from the edge of the pavement to the edge of the pavement but not including curb and gutter.
PLAN COMMISSION or COMMISSION: The Pawnee Plan Commission, established in Section 9-7-6 of this Code.
PLAT: The action of officially subdividing land or the final plat which is approved by the Village and recorded.
PLATS OFFICER: The Executive Director of the Springfield-Sangamon County Regional Planning Commission or duly authorized representative.
PRELIMINARY PLAN: A plan of proposed subdivision or greater area prepared in the manner and containing the data, documents and information required by this Title.
PRINCIPAL BUILDING: A building in which the principal use of the lot on which it is located is conducted.
PRIVATE STREET: A purported street, way or strip of land reserved for the use of a limited number of persons or purposes and which is not a publicly dedicated street.
PUBLIC CROSSWALK: A ten foot (10') right of way through the interior of a block in which a sidewalk meeting the construction standards of this Title is built.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT: Any street, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, drainage way, water main, sidewalk, parkway or other facility which the Village or other governmental unit owns, maintains and operates.
PUBLIC STREET: A street owned and maintained by a governmental body.
RECORD: To file a final plat approved by the Village with the Sangamon County Recorder of Deeds.
RIGHT OF WAY: A strip of land which has been dedicated in fee simple to a public body for streets, alleys and other public improvements as determined by the public body.
SANITARY SEWER: A constructed conduit connected with the sewer system that is designed to carry liquids and solids other than storm water to the Village sewer treatment plant.
SERVICE ACCESS STREET: A street parallel to and adjacent to a major arterial, which provides access from the arterial to abutting properties.
SETBACK: The minimum horizontal distance required between the building and the lot line adjoining the street right of way.
SHALL/MAY: "Shall" means something is mandatory; "may" means something is discretionary.
SKETCH PLAN: A general layout of a proposed subdivision prepared in the manner and containing the information required by this Title.
STORM SEWER: A constructed conduit for carrying storm water to a drainage course.
STORM WATER: Water from roof downspouts, basement footing perimeter drains and yard drains as well as surface runoff.
STUB STREET: A street which is intended to be extended but which temporarily ends.
SUBDIVIDER: Any or all owners, agents or persons controlling land who commence proceedings under this Title by submitting location and sketch maps to the Plan Commission office or by making land improvements in the form of buildings, drives and utilities, but not necessarily involving the actual division of land.
SUBDIVISION OF LAND: The 1) division of land into two (2) or more parts, any of which is less than five (5) acres in size (see subsection 10-1-5
A of this Chapter for exemptions); 2) dedication of streets or easements of access; 3) creation of a planned unit development; or 4) creation of a large scale development. In the event a subdivision is a planned unit development or large scale development, the standards and regulations of this Title shall govern.
SUPERINTENDENT OF HIGHWAYS: The Sangamon County Superintendent of Highways.
SURETY: A bonding agency that is financially qualified to do business in the State of Illinois.
THROUGH LOT: Any lot which is not a corner lot and which adjoins two (2) streets that are parallel or within forty five degrees (45o) of being parallel to each other.
TOWNSHIP HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER: The Township Highway Commissioner for the township in which the subdivision is located.
TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICE: Any sign, signal marking or device placed on or adjacent to a street or highway by authority of the Village of Pawnee, the State of Illinois Department of Transportation or the Sangamon County Superintendent of Highways.
VILLAGE: The Village of Pawnee, Illinois.
VILLAGE CLERK: The Village Clerk of the Village of Pawnee, Illinois.
VILLAGE ENGINEER: The professional engineer appointed or designated by the Village Board of Trustees.
WATER DEPARTMENT: The Water Department of the Village of Pawnee.
ZONING ADMINISTRATOR 1 : The Director of Building and Zoning of the Village of Pawnee, as established by Ordinance 75-22. (Ord. 91-14, 9-23-91; amd. Ord. 19-08, 5-13-2019)
Notes
| 1 | 1. S.H.A. 765 ILCS 205/1. |
| 2 | 2. S.H.A. 35 ILCS 205/35. |
| 1 | 1. See Section 9-7-2 of this Code. |