§ 152.010  DEFINITIONS.
   Unless specifically defined in this section, words used in this chapter shall have their respective customary dictionary definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning. The words should and may always indicate optional. The word LOT includes the words plot, tract and/or parcel. The word BUILDINGS includes the word STRUCTURE. The word PERSON includes a firm, association, organization, partnership, trust, company, corporation and/or individuals. The word USE includes the terms “arranged, designed and/or intended for use, activity and/or purpose”.
   BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.  The Board of Commissioners of the town.
   DEDICATION.  A gift, by the owner, of a right to use of land for a specified purpose or purposes. Because a transfer of property rights is entailed, dedication must be made by written instrument, and is completed with an acceptance.
   EASEMENT.  A grant of one or more of the property rights by the property owner of a portion of land for a specified purpose and use by the public, a corporation or other entities.
   LOT.  A separate and distinct unit of land described by either a metes and bounds description and/or subdivision plat of record and/or probated will. LOT includes a portion of a subdivision or any other parcel of land, intended as a unit for transfer of ownership or for development or both.
      (1)   CORNER LOT.  A lot abutting two or more streets at their intersection.
      (2)   REVERSE FRONTAGE LOT.  A through lot which is not accessible from one of the parallel or non-intersecting streets upon which it fronts.
      (3)   THROUGH LOT.  A lot abutting two streets that do not intersect at the corner of the lot.
   PLANNING BOARD.  The Planning Board of the town.
   REQUIRED DRAINAGE CHANNEL.  The theoretical stream bed section which is required to discharge the runoff from a 100-year storm.
   RESERVATION.  An obligation, shown on a plat or site plan, to keep property free from development and available for public acquisition for a stated period of time. It is not a dedication or conveyance.
   RESERVE STRIP.  A strip of land (usually only a few feet wide) owned privately, and set aside around a Subdivision in order to prevent access to adjacent property by way of subdivision streets.
   REVIEW OFFICER.  A person appointed by the Board of County Commissioners to review state mapping standards prior to authorizing a subdivision plat to be recorded by the Register of Deeds.
   STORM, 25-YEAR.  The surface runoff resulting from a rainfall of an intensity expected to be equaled or exceeded, on the average, once in 25 years and of a duration which will produce the maximum peak rate of runoff for the watershed of interest under average antecedent wetness conditions.
   STORM, 100-YEAR.  The surface runoff resulting from a rainfall of an intensity expected to be equaled or exceeded, on the average, once in 100 years and of a duration which will produce the maximum peak rate of runoff for the watershed of interest under average antecedent wetness conditions.
   STORM, TEN-YEAR.  The surface runoff resulting from a rainfall of an intensity expected to be equaled or exceeded, on the average, once in ten years and of a duration which will produce the maximum peak rate of runoff for the watershed of interest under average antecedent wetness conditions.
   SUBDIVIDER.  A person engaging in the act of subdividing property.
   SUBDIVISION.  See § 152.005.
   STREET.  A public right-of-way for vehicular travel which has been constructed and then dedicated to and accepted by the town or the State Department of Transportation for public use or which has been otherwise obtained by the agencies for the use or which is proposed to be constructed and then dedicated to and accepted by the agencies as a public right-of-way for vehicular traffic for public use pursuant to this chapter. STREET classification are as follows:
      (1)   COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL STREET.  A public way designed primarily to connect minor commercial/industrial streets with arterial streets and/or to provide direct connection between two or more arterial streets, and which may be designed to carry significant volumes of vehicular traffic having neither origin nor destination on the street.
      (2)   MINOR STREET.  A public way used primarily for providing direct access to abutting properties, and which does not have collector characteristics. MINOR STREETS are further classified as:
         (a)   RESIDENTIAL.  Those streets whose primary function is to provide direct access to residential property. MINOR RESIDENTIAL STREETS typically collect traffic from not more than 100 dwelling units.
         (b)   COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL. Those streets whose primary function is to provide direct access to commercial-industrial property.
         (c)   CUL-DE-SAC STREET.  A short local street having one end open to traffic and the other end permanently terminated by a vehicular turnaround.
   STREET HALF.  A proposed vehicular travelway intended to be developed by constructing one-half of a required width of a street with the remainder to be provided at some future date.
   STREET PRIVATE.  A vehicular travelway not accepted as a public street.
   TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION.  The town limits of the Town of Polkton as now or may be hereafter established.
   THOROUGHFARE PLAN.  The Thoroughfare Plan as adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the town, and as may from time to time be amended.
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