For the purpose of this title, certain terms are defined as follows:
ALLEY: A passage or way affording generally a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting properties and not intended for general traffic circulation.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS: The board of county commissioners of Tulsa or Osage Counties.
CITY COUNCIL: The city council of the city of Skiatook.
CITY ENGINEER: The city engineer of the city of Skiatook.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: The comprehensive plan of the city of Skiatook, whether in whole or in part, as adopted by the Skiatook city planning commission, approved by the city of Skiatook and duly recorded in the offices of the county clerks of Tulsa County and Osage County.
COUNTY ASSESSOR: The county assessor of Tulsa or Osage County.
COUNTY ENGINEER: The county engineer of Tulsa or Osage County.
CUL-DE-SAC: A short street having one end open to traffic and being terminated at the other end by a vehicular turnaround.
ENGINEER: A registered, professional engineer in good standing in the state of Oklahoma.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT: The cooperative health departments of the city and counties of Tulsa and Osage.
HIGHWAY: A major street ordinarily, but not necessarily, designated as a numbered federal, state or county highway and designed to accommodate primarily intercity and rural traffic movements.
IMPROVEMENTS: Grading, street surfacing, curbs and gutters, sidewalks, crosswalks, culverts, bridges, water and sanitary and storm sewer lines, and other utilities, and other required features.
LOT SPLIT: Any division of land into two (2) or more parcels for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer or of ownership, and which does not constitute a "subdivision" as herein defined.
MASTER PLAN: The comprehensive plan of the city of Skiatook, whether in whole or in part, as adopted by the Skiatook city planning commission, approved by the legislative body, and duly recorded in the offices of the county clerks of Tulsa County and Osage County.
OPEN SPACE, PUBLIC: The land which may be dedicated or reserved for acquisition for general use by the public including parks, recreation areas, school sites, community or public building sites, and other lands.
PLANNING COMMISSION: The Skiatook city planning commission.
PLAT, FINAL: The final plat, plan or drawing and any accompanying required data or information which is submitted to the legislative body for final approval of a proposed subdivision.
PLAT, PRELIMINARY: The preliminary or tentative plat or plan, map or drawing on which the layout and design of a proposed subdivision is submitted to the legislative body for consideration and tentative approval.
RECREATION PLAN: The plan for recreation areas, including parks, playgrounds, and other open space adopted by the Skiatook city planning commission, approved by the city council, and duly recorded in the offices of the county clerks of Tulsa County and Osage County.
ROADWAY WIDTH OR SURFACE WIDTH: That portion of any street designated for vehicular traffic and, where curbs are laid, that portion of the street between curbs.
STAFF: The staff of the Skiatook city planning commission.
STREET: The full width between the property lines bounding every way of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to use by the public as a matter of right, for the purpose of vehicular traffic and whether designated as a street, highway, freeway, expressway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, place, circle, or however otherwise designated.
STREET, COLLECTOR: A street intended to serve and to provide access to neighborhoods or subneighborhoods.
STREET, FRONTAGE: A minor street which is located parallel to and adjacent to a major street or thoroughfare for the purpose of providing access to abutting properties. A frontage street or road is normally separated from the abutting major street by a fence, curb, walk, land especially reserved, designated or acquired for the purpose of such separation.
STREET, MAJOR: A street designated as a major street or thoroughfare in the official thoroughfare plan and designed to accommodate primarily major traffic movements.
STREET, MINOR: Any street not designated as a major street or collector street and intended to serve and to provide access exclusively to the properties abutting thereon.
SUBDIVISION: A. The division of any parcel of land shown as a unit or as contiguous units on the last preceding tax role, into five (5) or more parcels, sites or lots, any one of which contains less than five (5) acres, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership; provided, however, that the division or partition of land into parcels of more than five (5) acres not involving any new street or easements of access, shall be exempted;
B. The improvement of one or more parcels of land for residential, commercial, or industrial structures or groups of structures involving the division or allocation of land for the opening, widening, or extension of any street or streets, except internal private streets serving industrial structures; the division or allocation of land as open spaces for common use by owners, occupiers or leaseholders or as easement for the extension and maintenance of public sewer, water, storm drainage and other public facilities.
C. And provided further, that the following shall not constitute a subdivision: transfer of interests by will or pursuant to court order; leases for a term not to exceed ten (10) years; mortgages or easements; and the sale or exchange of parcels of land between owners of adjoining property if additional lots are not thereby created and the lots resulting are not reduced below minimum sizes required by law.
THOROUGHFARE: A major street.
THOROUGHFARE PLAN: The official plan of highways, primary and secondary thoroughfares, parkways and other major streets, including collector streets, adopted by the Skiatook city planning commission, approved by the city council and duly recorded in the offices of the county clerks of Tulsa County and Osage County.
THOROUGHFARE, PRIMARY OR SECONDARY: A major street so designated in the official thoroughfare plan.
UTILITY BOARD: The utility board of the city of Skiatook.
ZONING ORDINANCE: The zoning ordinance of the city of Skiatook.
ZONING REGULATIONS: The zoning regulations of Tulsa County and Osage County. (1991 Code § 16-2-16-3; amd. 2011 Code)