ALLEY: A public right of way primarily designed to serve as access to the side or rear of those properties whose principal frontage is on some other street.
BLOCK: A tract of land bounded by streets or by a combination of streets, public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights of way, bulkhead lines or shorelines, waterways or boundary lines of the corporate limits of the Village.
BOARD: The Board of Trustees of the Village of South Pekin, Illinois.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: Collectively those documents and ordinances of the Village relating to zoning, major street planning and land development.
CUL-DE-SAC (DEAD END STREET): A local residential street with only one outlet and having an appropriate terminal for the safe and convenient reversal of traffic movement.
EASEMENT: A grant by a property owner of the use of land for a specific purpose.
FINAL PLAT: The map or plan of record of a subdivision, and any accompanying material as described in Chapter 6 of this Title.
FLOOD PLAIN: That area which would be inundated by storm water runoff equivalent to that which would occur with a rainfall of fifty (50) year frequency after total development of the watershed.
FRONTAGE: The length of the front property lines of the lot, lots or tract of land abutting a public street, road, highway or rural right of way.
GRADE: The slope of a road, street or other public way, specified in percent and shown on street profile plans as required herein.
GRADE, LANDING: The grade required on streets entering major thoroughfares at points of intersection, as specified herein.
IMPROVEMENT, PUBLIC: Any sanitary sewer, storm sewer, drainage ditch, water main, roadway, parkway, sidewalk, planting strip, off-street parking area or other facility for which South Pekin may ultimately assume the responsibility for maintenance and operation.
LOT: A portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land intended for transfer of ownership or for building development.
OWNER: Any person, group of persons, firm or firms, corporation or corporations or any other legal entity having legal title to the land sought to be subdivided under this Chapter.
PARKWAY: An unpaved strip of land situated within the public right of way of a street.
RIGHT OF WAY: A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a road, sidewalk, railroad, electric transmission line, oil or gas pipeline, water main, sanitary or storm sewer, or for other special uses. The usage of the term "right of way" for land platting purposes shall mean that every right of way hereafter established and shown on a final record plat is to be separate and distinct from the lots or parcels adjoining such right of way, and not included within the dimensions or areas of such lots or parcels. Rights of way intended for streets, sidewalks, water mains, sanitary sewers, storm sewers or any other uses involving future maintenance by a public agency shall be dedicated to public use by the maker of the plat on which such right of way is established.
SERVICE DRIVE (ACCESS STREET): A public street, generally paralleling and contiguous to a main traveled way, primarily designed to promote safety by eliminating promiscuous ingress and egress to the right of way, and providing safe and orderly points of access at fairly uniformly spaced intervals.
SIDEWALK: That portion of a public right of way, paved or otherwise surfaced, intended for pedestrian use only.
STREET (ROADWAY): The paved portion of a public or private right of way which affords a primary means of vehicular access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
STREET, MARGINAL ACCESS: A minor street which is parallel to and adjacent to a major street, and which provides access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
STREET, MINOR: A street of limited continuity used primarily for access to abutting properties and local needs of a neighborhood.
STREET WIDTH: The shortest distance between the outer parallel limits of the paved portion and gravel apron of a street.
SUBDIVIDER (DEVELOPER): Any person or corporation or duly authorized agent of the landowner who undertakes the subdivision of land as defined herein.
SUBDIVISION: A division of a lot, tract or parcel of land into two (2) or more lots, or other divisions of land, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of a) transfer of ownership, b) building development, or c) redevelopment, including all changes in street or lot lines; provided, however, that divisions of land for agricultural purposes, in parcels of five (5) acres or more not involving any new street or easement of access, shall be exempted, and the transactions described in section 1(b) of "An Act to Revise the Law in Relation to Plats 1 " shall also be exempted.
VILLAGE: The Village of South Pekin, Illinois.
(Ord. 234, 10-23-74, eff. 11-6-74)
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