For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
PROPERTY.
(1) EASEMENT. A grant by the property owner for use by the public, a corporation, or a person, of a strip of land for specific purposes.
(2) LOT. A portion of a subdivision, or any other parcel of land, intended as a unit for transfer of ownership or for development or both. The word LOT includes the words PLAT and PARCEL.
(a) CORNER LOT. A lot abutting upon two streets at their intersection.
(b) DOUBLE-FRONTAGE LOT. A continuous (through) lot which is accessible from both of the parallel streets upon which it fronts.
(c) REVERSE-FRONTAGE LOT. A continuous (through) lot which is accessible from only one of the parallel streets upon which it fronts.
(3) SETBACK LINE. A line parallel and concentric with the street right-of-way line, crossing the lot, beyond which no portion of a house or building shall project toward the street.
RURAL ROADS.
(1) LOCAL ROAD. A local road that serves primarily to provide access to adjacent land and for travel over relatively short distances.
(2) MAJOR COLLECTOR. A road which serves major intercounty travel corridors and traffic generators and provides access to the arterial system.
(3) MINOR ARTERIAL. A rural link in a network joining cities and larger towns and providing interstate and intercounty service at relatively high overall travel speeds with minimum interference to through movement.
(4) MINOR COLLECTOR. A road which provides service to small local communities and links the locally important traffic generators with their rural hinterland.
(5) PRINCIPAL ARTERIAL. A rural link in a network of continuous routes serving corridor movements having trip length and travel density characteristics indicative of substantial statewide or interstate travel and existing solely to serve traffic. This network would consist of interstate routes and other routes designated as PRINCIPAL ARTERIALS.
SPECIFIC TYPE RURAL OR URBAN STREETS.
(1) ALLEY. Any public way or private way serving more than two buildings and being less than 50 feet in width.
(2) CUL-DE-SAC. A short street having but one end open to traffic and the other end being permanently terminated and a vehicular turn around provided.
(3) FREEWAY, EXPRESSWAY, or PARKWAY. Divided multilane roadways designed to carry large volumes of traffic at relatively high speeds. A FREEWAY is a divided highway providing for continuous flow of vehicles with no direct access to abutting property or streets and with access to selected crossroads provided via connecting ramps. An EXPRESSWAY is a divided highway with full or partial control of access and generally with grade separations at major intersections. A PARKWAY is a highway for noncommercial traffic, with full or partial control of access, and usually located within a park or a ribbon of park-like development.
(4) FRONTAGE ROAD. A local street or road that is parallel to a full or partial access controlled facility and functions to provide access to adjacent land.
(5) LOCAL RESIDENTIAL STREET. Cul-de-sacs, loop streets less than 2,500 feet in length, or streets less than one mile in length that do not connect thoroughfares, or serve major traffic generators, and do not collect traffic from more than 100 dwelling units.
(6) RESIDENTIAL COLLECTOR STREET. A local access street which serves as a connector street between local residential streets and the thoroughfare system. RESIDENTIAL COLLECTOR STREETS typically collect traffic from 100 to 400 dwelling units.
SUBDIVISION.
(1) DEDICATION. A gift, by the owner, of his or her property to another party without any consideration being given for the transfer. Since a transfer of property is involved, the DEDICATION is made by written instrument and is completed with an acceptance.
(2) RESERVATION. A reservation of land does not involve any transfer of property rights. It simply constitutes an obligation to keep property free from development for a stated period of time,
(3) SUBDIVIDER. Any person, firm, or corporation who subdivides or develops any land deemed to be a subdivision as herein defined.
(4) SUBDIVISION/DEVELOPMENT. Include all divisions of a tract or parcel of land into two or more lots, building sites, or the divisions when any one or more of those divisions is created for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development, and all divisions of land involving the dedication of a new street or a change in existing streets; provided, however, that the following shall not be included within this definition nor be subject to the regulations prescribed by this chapter: the combination or recombination of portions of previously platted lots where the total number of lots is not increased and the resultant lots are equal to or exceed the standards and regulations prescribed by this chapter; the division of land into parcels greater than ten acres where no street right-of-way dedication is involved; the public acquisition by purchase of strips of land for the widening or opening of streets; the division of a tract in single ownership whose entire area is no greater than two acres into not more than three lots, where no street right-of-way dedication is involved and where the resultant lots are equal to or exceed the standards contained herein.
URBAN STREETS.
(1) LOCAL STREET. Any link not on a high-order urban system and serves primarily to provide direct access to abutting land and access to higher systems.
(2) MAJOR THOROUGHFARES. Consist of interstate, other freeway, expressway, or parkway links, and major streets that provide for the expeditious movement of high volumes of traffic within and through urban areas.
(3) MINOR THOROUGHFARES. Important streets in the city system and perform the function of collecting traffic from local access streets and carrying it to the major thoroughfare system. MINOR THOROUGHFARES may be used to supplement the major thoroughfare system by facilitating a minor through-traffic movement and may also serve abutting property.
(Prior Code, § 9-3021) (Ord. passed 6- -2006)