Unless another meaning is indicated, this Title shall be interpreted in accordance with the following rules of construction:
A. The singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular.
B. The present tense includes the past and future tenses and the future the present.
C. The word “shall” is mandatory, while the word “may” is permissive.
D. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
E. Whenever a word or term defined hereinafter appears in the text of this Title, its meaning shall be construed as set forth in the definition thereof, and any word appearing in parentheses directly after a word herein defined shall be construed in the same sense as that word.
The following words and terms, wherever used in this Title shall be construed and defined as follows:
BLOCK: A tract of land bounded by streets or by a combination of streets and public parks, railroad rights of way or other similar natural boundaries. A block may be located in part beyond the boundary lines of the corporate limits of the Village.
BUILDING SETBACK LINE: A line within a lot or other parcel of land, which denotes the area between such line and the adjacent street right-of-way line where a building and other obstructions are prohibited, except those obstructions that are permitted by Zoning Ordinance regulations.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: The Plan adopted by Title 9 of this Code depicting among other things, land uses, major water and sanitary sewer mains and major drainageways, highways, roadways, primary and secondary thoroughfares and parkways of the village and environs.
CONCEPTUAL DRAWING: A preliminary sketch of a proposed development intended for feasibility study purposes only. The conceptual drawing can include street and lot configurations, estimated minimum and maximum lot size, public land dedications, land use information and major natural features including floodplain and floodway.
COUNTY ENGINEER: The individual appointed by Will or Kendall County, Illinois, to supervise the county roadway system.
CUL-DE-SAC: A local street with a single outlet.
DEVELOPER: Any person, firm, business, trust, corporation or other entity engaged in the business of subdividing, developing or otherwise improving land.
DEVELOPMENT: Any construction activity including new construction or renovation, mining, drilling, extraction, dredging, filling, excavation, grading, clearing of land, deposit of refuse or debris, clearing of natural vegetative cover; any material change in the use or appearance of any structure or in the land itself; the division of land into parcels or lots; any change in the intensity or use of land; any activity that alters a shore, river, stream, pond, woodlands, wetland, endangered species habitat, aquifer or other resource area.
EASEMENT: Land set aside over or under which a right, privilege, use or advantage in land is dedicated and is distinct from ownership of the land and is granted either to the public, a particular person or a combination of both.
FINAL PLAT: A map of all or part of the subdivision prepared and certified by a registered Illinois land surveyor and certified by a registered Illinois engineer in accordance with the requirements of the applicable provisions of the Illinois Compiled Statutes as amended and other applicable governmental regulations including this title and suitable for recordation by the county recorder of deeds.
FRONTAGE ROAD: A minor street which is parallel to and either adjacent to or within the right of way of a thoroughfare.
HALF STREET: A street of less than the total required width along one or more property lines of a subdivision.
LAND IMPROVEMENT: Any sanitary sewer system, storm sewer system, water supply and distribution system, roadway, side strip, sidewalk, pedestrianway, no access strip, off street parking area, lot grading or other improvement which the village may require under this title.
LOCAL STREET: Roads primarily serving to provide access to abutting property and connect with minor collector and/or major thoroughfares discouraging through traffic.
LOT: A portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land intended for transfer of ownership or for building development.
LOT CONSOLIDATION: The merger of separate parcels, tracts of land or lots into a single parcel, lot or tract of land.
LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE: A lot which has a pair of opposite lot lines along two (2) substantially parallel streets.
MAJOR ARTERIAL: All state and U.S. designated highways connecting between designated highway and freeway interchanges and other heavily traveled streets described in the transportation plan as primary arterials.
MAJOR COLLECTOR STREET: All secondary thoroughfares shown on the major thoroughfare plan. Major collector streets serve to collect and distribute medium volume traffic between major thoroughfares and minor collector streets and include section line roads.
MINOR COLLECTOR STREET: Streets used to collect and distribute medium volume traffic between minor thoroughfares, major collectors, local streets and abutting property.
NGVD: National geodetic vertical datum.
NO ACCESS STRIP: A land area at least twelve feet (12') wide along the rear lot line of a double frontage lot and abutting a thoroughfare within which no vehicular driveway shall be permitted.
OPEN SPACE: Any space or area of land or water essentially unimproved or otherwise devoid of buildings or other structures and paved areas and set aside, dedicated, designated or reserved for public or private use or enjoyment of owners and occupants of land adjoining or neighboring such open space.
OWNER OR SUBDIVIDER: Shall include any person, firm, association, partnership, private corporation, public or quasi-public corporation or a combination of any of them or other legal entity having sufficient proprietary interest in the land sought to be subdivided or divided to commence and maintain proceedings under the provisions of this chapter.
PEDESTRIANWAY: A right of way across or within a block designated for pedestrian use.
PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION. The Planning and Zoning Commission of Shorewood, Illinois as designated and organized per Title 10, Chapter 12, Sec. 10-12-1C of the Code.
PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (PUD): A residential, commercial, industrial or mixed use development which complies with the appropriate zoning classification (i.e., residential, business, industrial) for the property which allows greater design flexibility but requires more precise controls than provided for in other zoning classifications.
PLAT: A map showing divisions of land and property.
PRELIMINARY PLAT: A preliminary map prepared by a registered Illinois land surveyor and a registered Illinois engineer showing the proposed layout of a subdivision in sufficient detail to allow review by the platting authority and other interested agencies and meeting the requirements of these and other applicable regulations.
ROADWAY: That portion of the street designated for vehicular use.
SERVICE DRIVE: A passage or way affording generally a secondary means or vehicular access to abutting properties and not intended for general traffic circulation.
SIDE STRIP: The unpaved strip of land within a street right of way and is parallel to the roadway.
SIDEWALK: That portion of the street right of way or other area designated for pedestrian use.
STREET: A private or public right of way which affords pedestrians and vehicles primary access to abutting properties. No name or designation shall be material to this definition.
STREET WIDTH: The shortest distance between the right of way lines of a given street.
SUBDIVISION:
A. A described tract of land which is to be or has been divided into two (2) or more parcels of land, regardless of the size of said parcels;
B. Any division of land which creates a lot for transfer of ownership and/or building development where a new street is involved; or
C. The dedication of streets, ways or other areas for the use of the public.
No division of a tract shall be deemed a subdivision if it merely transfers ownership to adjacent property owners without creating additional lots.
The term “subdivision” includes “resubdivision” and, where it is appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land subdivided.
SUBDIVISION DESIGN STANDARDS: The basic land planning principles established as guides for the preparation of preliminary plats.
UTILITIES: Overhead and/or underground gas, electrical, telephone, cable television, water, sanitary sewer and storm sewer transmission or distribution systems.
VILLAGE: The village of Shorewood, Illinois.
VILLAGE BOARD: The village board of the village of Shorewood, Illinois.
VILLAGE CLERK: The village clerk of the village of Shorewood, Illinois.
VILLAGE ENGINEER: A trained, licensed, and registered Illinois professional civil engineer hired by the village as a consultant or as an employee, to advise and represent the village in engineering matters.
ZONING OFFICER: As defined by Title 10, Chapter 2, Sec. 10-2-1 of this Code. (Ord. 93-721, 12-14-1993; amd. Ord. 05-1312, 9-27-2005, eff. 10-2-2005; Ord. 20-1982, 8-25-2020; Ord. 21-2023, 10-12-2021)