For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOND. Any form of security including a cash deposit, surety bond, collateral, property, or instrument of credit in a form satisfactory to the Village Solicitor.
CONSTRUCTION PLANS. The detailed engineering drawings accompanying a subdivision plat and showing the specific location and design of improvements to be installed in the subdivision.
CORNER LOT. A lot at the point of intersection of and abutting on two intersecting streets.
IMPROVEMENTS. Grading, sanitary and storm sewers, water mains, pavement, curbs and gutters, sidewalks, street signs, street lights, street trees, and the appropriate appurtenances required to render land suitable for the use proposed.
LOT or PARCEL. A division of land separated or proposed to be separated from other divisions of land by description on a recorded subdivision plat, recorded survey map, or by metes and bounds for purposes whether immediate or future, of sale, lease, separate use, or building development.
PUBLIC UTILITY. Any person, firm, corporation, governmental agency, or board having a public utility commission permit to furnish under regulations to the public, electricity, gas, steam, telephone, transportation, water, or any other similar public utility.
REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL SURVEYOR. A person registered as a professional surveyor under R.C. Chapter 4733.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a street, crosswalk, walkway, or other public improvement relating to public travel or access.
STREETS and ALLEYS. A way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, boulevard, land, place or however otherwise designated.
(1) ALLEY. A minor way which is used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
(2) COLLECTOR STREET. A street which carries traffic from minor streets to major highways or major streets, including the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation within such a development.
(3) CUL-DE-SAC or DEAD-END STREET. A minor street with only one outlet.
(4) MAJOR HIGHWAY. A principal or heavy traffic street of considerable continuity and used primarily as a traffic artery for inter-communication between large areas. State Rout 585 is an example.
(5) MINOR STREET. A street used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
(7) SECONDARY HIGHWAY. A thoroughfare which connects large rural areas of the county. County Road 502 is an example.
STREET WIDTH. The shortest distance between the lines delineating the right-of-way of a street.
SUBDIVIDER. Any individual, firm, association, syndicate, co-partnership, corporation, trust or any other legal entity commencing proceedings under these regulations to effect a subdivision of land hereunder for himself, herself or for another.
SUBDIVISION.
(1) The division of any parcel of land shown as a unit or as contiguous units on the last preceding tax roll, into two or more parcels, sites or lots, any one of which is less than five acres for the purposes - whether immediate or future - of transfer ownership, provided, however, that the division or partition of land into parcels of more than five acres not involving any new streets or easements of access, and the sale or exchange of parcels between adjoining lot owners, where the sale or exchange does not create additional building sites or violate zoning regulations, shall be exempted.
(2) The improvement of one or more parcels of land for residential, commercial or industrial structures or groups of structural involving the division or allocation of land for the opening, widening or extension of any street or streets, except private streets serving industrial structures; the division or allocation of land as open spaces for common use by owners, occupants or lease holders or as easements for the extension and maintenance of public sewer, water, storm drainage or other public facilities.
(3) MINOR SUBDIVISION is a division of a parcel of land along an existing public street or road not involving the opening, widening, or extension of any street or road, and involving not more than five lots after the original tract has been completely subdivided.
(Ord. passed 5-10-2001; Am. Ord. 2017-4, passed 3-27-2017)