As used in these Subdivision Regulations, the following terms shall be defined as follows:
(1) "Block" means an area bounded by streets.
(2) "Pavement" means the portion of a street intended for vehicular use.
(3) "Clear sight triangle" means an area of unobstructed vision at street intersections defined by lines of sight between points at a given distance from the intersection of street right-of-way lines.
(4) "Commission" means the Princeton Planning Commission.
(5) "Commission Engineer" means the City Engineer if such office exists, and if not, shall be the engineer or other qualified person designated by the Planning Commission to perform all administrative and/or supervisory duties required of the Commission Engineer by the provisions of these Subdivision Regulations.
(6) "Council" means the Princeton City Council.
(7) "Cul-de-sac" means a minor street intersecting another street at one end and terminated at the other by a vehicular turnaround.
(8) "Dedication" means the deliberate appropriation of land by its owner for any general and public uses, reserving to himself no other rights than such as are compatible with the full exercise and enjoyment of the public uses to which the property has been devoted.
(9) "Easement" means a right of way granted for limited use of private land for a public or quasi-public purpose.
(10) "Half or partial street" means a street, generally parallel and adjacent to a property line, having a lesser right-of-way width than normally required for satisfactory improvement and use of the street.
(11) "Interior walk" means a right of way for pedestrian use extending from a street into a block or across a block to another street.
(12) "Lot" means a tract or parcel of land intended for transfer of ownership, use or improvement.
(13) "Plan, final" means a complete and exact subdivision plan, prepared for official recording as required by statute, to define property rights and proposed streets and other improvements.
(14) "Plan, sketch" means an informal plan, not necessarily to scale, indicating salient existing features of a tract and its surroundings and the general layout of the proposed subdivision.
(15) "Public notice" means notice published once each week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Municipality. Such notice shall state the time and place of the hearing and the particular nature of the matter to be considered at the hearing. The first publication shall be not more than thirty days or less than fourteen days from the date of the hearing.
(16) "Reverse frontage lot" means a lot extending between and having frontage on an arterial street and a local street, and with vehicular access solely from the latter.
(17) "Right of way" means land reserved for use as a street, interior walk, or for other public purposes.
(18) "Set-back or building line" means the line within a property defining the required minimum distance between any enclosed structure and the adjacent right of way.
(19) "Sight distance" means the maximum extent of unobstructed vision (in a horizontal or vertical plane) along a street from a vehicle located at any given point on the street.
(20) "Street" means a strip of land, including the entire right of way, intended for use as a means of vehicular and pedestrian circulation. Classes of streets are as follows:
A. Arterial streets are those serving large volumes of comparatively high-speed and long-distance traffic, and include facilities classified as main and secondary highways by the West Virginia Department of Transportation, and include streets classified as Expressways and Major Traffic Streets in the Thoroughfare Plan adopted by the Planning Commission.
B. Collector streets are those which, in addition to giving access to abutting properties, intercept local streets and provide routes, carrying considerable volumes of traffic, to community facilities and to arterial streets, and include streets classified as Expressways and Major Traffic Streets in the Thoroughfare Plan adopted by the Planning Commission.
C. Local streets are those used primarily to provide access to abutting property.
(21) "Street, public" means a street dedicated to public use.
(22) "Subdivider" means the owner, or authorized agent of the owner, of a subdivision.
(23) "Subdivision" means the following:
A. A division of any part, parcel or area of land by the owner or agent, either by lots or by metes and bounds, into lots or parcels two or more in number for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of conveyance, transfer, improvement or sale with appurtenant roads, streets, lanes, and ways, dedicated or intended to be dedicated to public use, or for the use of purchaser or owners of lots fronting thereon. A subdivision as defined above includes division of a parcel of land having frontage on an existing street, into two or more lots having frontage on the existing street. However, for the purposes of these Subdivision Regulations, division of land for agricultural purposes into parcels of more than ten acres, not involving any new street or easement, shall not be deemed a subdivision.
B. Any development of a piece of land which involves installation of sanitary sewers, storm sewers, water mains, gas mains or pipes, or other facilities for the use, whether immediate or future, of the owners or occupants of the land, or of buildings abutting thereon.
C. Any development of a parcel of land, for example, as a shopping center or a multiple dwelling project, which involves installation of streets, even though the streets may not be dedicated to public use and the parcel may not be divided immediately for purposes of conveyance, transfer or sale.
D. The term subdivision includes resubdivision, and as appropriate in these Subdivision Regulations, shall refer to the process of subdividing land or to the land subdivided.
(24) "Variance" means the Commission's authorized departure to a minor degree from the text of these Subdivision Regulations in direct regard to a hardship peculiar to an individual lot in accordance with the procedures set forth in these Subdivision Regulations.
(25) "Yard" means an open space as may be required by these Subdivision Regulations of uniform width, or depth on the same lot with a building or group of buildings, which open space lies between the principal building or group of buildings and the nearest lot line and is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward.
A. "Yard, front" means an open space extending the full width of the lot between a building and the front lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward.
B. "Yard, rear" means an open space extending the full width of the lot between a building and the rear lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward.
(Ord. 1-79. Passed 6-18-79.)