For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates, or requires, a different meaning.
ALLEY. A public right-of-way which affords a secondary means of access to abutting property.
BLOCK. An area of land within a subdivision that is entirely bounded by streets, or by streets and the exterior boundary, or boundaries, of the subdivision, or a combination of the above with a river or lake.
BUILDING PERMIT. The building permit required under the building code of the city.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. The group of maps, charts, and texts that make up the comprehensive guide plan of the city.
DESIGN STANDARDS. The specifications to land owners, or subdividers, for the preparation of plats, both preliminary and final, indicating, among other things, the optimum, minimum, or maximum dimensions of such items as rights-of-way, blocks, easements, and lots.
EASEMENT. A grant by a property owner for the use of a strip of land for the purpose of constructing, and maintaining, utilities, including, but not limited to, sanitary sewers, water mains, electric lines, telephone lines, TV and FM transmission lines, storm sewer or storm drainage ways, gas lines, and roadways.
EASEMENT, SLOPE. A grant by a property owner for the use of a strip of land for the purpose of constructing a slope or grade transition from the existing property grade to a new street grade.
FINAL PLAT. A drawing, or map, of a subdivision meeting all the requirements of the city, and in the form as required by the county for purposes of recording.
INTERSECTION, STREET. The point of crossing, or meeting, of two or more streets.
LOT. A portion of a subdivision, or other parcel of land, intended for building development, or for transfer of ownership.
PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS. Public lands and open spaces in the city dedicated, or reserved, for recreation purposes.
PEDESTRIAN WAY. A public, or private, right-of-way across a block, or within a block, to provide access, to be used by pedestrians, and which may be used for the installation of utility lines.
PERCENTAGE OF GRADE. The rise, or fall, of a slope in feet and tenths of a foot for each 100 feet of horizontal distance. The centerline of a street shall be used to determine the street rise of grade.
PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION. The Planning and Zoning Commission of the city.
PRELIMINARY PLAT. A tentative drawing, or map, of a proposed subdivision meeting requirements herein enumerated.
PROTECTIVE COVENANTS. Contracts made between private parties as to the manner in which land may be used, with the view to protecting, and preserving, the physical, and economic, integrity of any given area.
STREET. A public right-of-way affording primary access by pedestrians and vehicles to abutting properties, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, thoroughway, road, avenue, boulevard, place, or however otherwise designated.
STREET, COLLECTOR. Streets that carry traffic from minor streets to the major system of thoroughfares and highways, including the principal entrance streets of residential districts as shown on the comprehensive plan.
STREETS, CUL-DE-SAC. A minor street with only one outlet, and having an appropriate terminal for the safe, and convenient, reversal of traffic movement.
STREETS, MARGINAL ACCESS. Minor streets which are parallel, and adjacent, to thoroughfares and highways; and which provide access to abutting properties, and protection from through traffic.
STREETS, MINOR. Streets which are used primarily for access to abutting properties.
STREETS, PRIVATE. A private right-of-way affording access by pedestrians and vehicles which is under individual, rather than municipal, control.
STREET, THOROUGHFARES. Arterial streets which are used primarily for heavy traffic, and serving as an arterial trafficway between the various districts of the community, as shown on the comprehensive plan.
STREET WIDTH. The shortest distance between lines of lots delineating the street right-of-way.
SUBDIVISION. A described tract of land which is to be, or has been, divided into two, or more, lots or parcels, any of which resultant parcels is less than two and one-half acres in area, for the purpose of transfer of ownership or building development, or, if a new street is involved, any division of a parcel of land. The term includes RESUBDIVISION, and where it is, appropriate to the context, relates either to the process of subdividing, or to the land subdivided.
TANGENT. A straight line departing from a curve which is perpendicular to the radius of that curve.
TRACT. A parcel of land intended for division, or development, of a subdivision.
U.S.G.S. DATUM. The United States Geodetic Survey Datum.
VERTICAL CURVE. The surface curvature on a street centerline located between lines of different percentage of grade.
(Prior Code, § 12.01)