Words in the present tense include the past and future tenses; the singular includes the plural; the plural includes the singular; the word “shall” is mandatory; the word “may” is permissive. In the event of conflicting provisions in the text of these regulations, the more restrictive shall apply. For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply, unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY: Any dedicated public right of way providing a minor secondary means of access to the side or rear of two or more properties.
BLOCKS: The enclosed area within the perimeter of roads, property lines or boundaries of a subdivision.
BOULEVARD: The portion of the public street right of way between the back curb line and the property line for uses such as snow storage, sidewalk, utilities, street light and traffic or other signage and potential widening of roadways.
BUILDABLE LAND: The gross acreage of all property in the proposed plat or subdivision excluding public waters, State or County rights-of-way, and wetlands designated by Federal or State agencies and classified by the Wetland Conservation Act.
CITY: The City of Randolph.
COLLECTOR STREET: A street which carries traffic from local streets to minor arterials or from collector street to collector street, including the principal entrance streets of a residential development for circulation within such a development. Direct access may be limited or restricted to a collector street. “Collector streets” are identified on the City’s Comprehensive Plan.
COMMUNITY: See definition of City.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: A Comprehensive Plan prepared and adopted by the community, including a compilation of policy statements, goals, text and maps indicating the general locations recommended for the various functional classes of land use, transportation network, utility infrastructures, places and structures and for the general physical development of the community, including any unit or part of such plan separately adopted and any amendment to such plan or parts thereof.
CORNER LOT: A lot bordered on at least two adjacent sides by streets or street rights of way.
COUNTY: Dakota County, Minnesota.
CUL-DE-SAC: A local street with only one outlet and having a vehicular turnaround.
DEVELOPMENT: The building of structures and the installation of site improvements.
DOUBLE-FRONTAGE LOTS: Lots which have a front line abutting on one street and a back or rear line abutting on another street.
EASEMENT: A grant by an owner of land for a specific use by persons other than the owner.
ENGINEER OR CITY ENGINEER: The registered engineer employed by the community, unless otherwise stated.
GOVERNING BODY: The City Council of the City of Randolph.
LAND USE: Categories of how land is occupied or utilized either through the efforts of people or in a natural setting. Land uses are generally referenced in broad categories such as residential, commercial or industrial, but can be reduced to specific categories i.e., single-family vs. townhouses or apartments.
LAND USES (INCOMPATIBLE): Characteristics of uses of land that may not be consistent or harmonious with one another due to such items as height, bulk, noxious odors, noise, unsightliness, traffic generation, exterior storage or other nuisances inherent to one land use but not to another.
LETTER OF CREDIT OR LOC: An irrevocable letter of credit issued on behalf of a subdivider as a means of ensuring financial security for completing certain public or private improvements.
LOCAL STREET: A street of limited continuity used primarily for access to abutting properties and for local needs of a neighborhood.
LOT: A parcel or portion of land in a subdivision or plat of land, separated from other parcels or portions by description, as on a subdivision or record of survey map, for the purpose of sale or lease or separate use thereof. Public right of way and land under the normal high water mark will not be included in computing the required minimum size of any parcel in the City.
MINOR ARTERIAL STREETS: Streets designated on the Comprehensive Plan and used primarily by faster moving traffic at heavy volumes as traffic arteries for vehicular movement between and among neighborhoods and other large areas.
OWNER: An individual, firm, association, syndicate, co-partnership, corporation, trust or other legal entity having sufficient proprietary interest in the land sought to be subdivided to commence and maintain proceedings to subdivide such land under these regulations.
PLANNING COMMISSION: The Planning Commission of the City.
PLAT: A map or drawing which graphically delineates the boundaries of land parcels for the purposes of identification and record of title. The “plat” is a recorded legal document and must conform to all State laws.
PRELIMINARY PLAT: The map or drawing showing the layout of a proposed subdivision which will be legally described by lot and block descriptions, with required supporting data.
PROTECTIVE OR RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS: Contracts entered into between private parties, constituting a restriction on the use of private property within a subdivision for the mutual benefit of the property owners, to provide protection against undesirable aspects of development which may tend to impair the stability of values.
RIGHT OF WAY: Land covered by a public road or dedicated for public use or for certain private use.
STREET (PRIVATE): A street, serving as vehicular access to two or more parcels of land, which is not dedicated to the public but is owned by one or more private parties.
STREET (PUBLIC): A way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as street, collector highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, place, drive, court or otherwise which is dedicated to the public.
STREET WIDTH: The shortest distance between the lines delineating the right of way of a street measured from the face of curb to the face of curb.
SUBDIVIDER: The owner, agent or person having control of a subdivision, as the term is used in this Title.
SUBDIVISION: The division of an area, parcel or tract of land into two or more parcels, tract 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 divisions when a new street is being created by a governmental agency which results in a division of a parcel of land. The term includes resubdivision and when appropriate to the context, shall relate to the process of subdividing or to the land subdivided or for adjustments in boundary lines except those separations:
(A) 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 five acres or larger in size for commercial and industrial uses.
(B) Creating cemetery lots.
(C) Resulting from court orders.
SURVEYOR: A land surveyor registered under State laws.
THOROUGHFARE: A street primarily designed to carry higher volumes of vehicular traffic than a collector street and providing for vehicular movement between and among larger areas, designated in the Comprehensive Plan as “minor arterials” or “arterials”.
ZONING ORDINANCE: The zoning ordinance or resolution controlling the use of land as adopted by the City.
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