The following words and phrases appearing in these land subdivision regulations will be defined and interpreted as are set forth below. For this purpose, the singular includes the plural and the plural includes the singular; the words “shall” and “will” are mandatory the word “may” is permissive, and the masculine gender includes the feminine gender.
ALLEY: | A public way used primarily as a service access to the rear or side of a property which abuts on a street. |
ARTERIAL: | A major street or thoroughfare that carries, or will carry, a considerable volume of traffic of more than neighborhood character and also serves abutting properties. |
BLOCK: | The distance measured along a street between intersecting streets from center line to center line; and where the context requires, it also means the enclosed area within the perimeter of the streets or property lines enclosing it. |
BUILDING SETBACK LINES: | Lines on a final plat that delineate where on the lot no building may be erected. Building setbacks are defined in the City of Sunland Park Zoning Regulations. |
CAMINO REAL REGIONAL UTILITY AUTHORITY (CRRUA): | The regional agency with the authority to adopt and administer Subdivision, Zoning, Planning, and Platting Rules and Regulations within the CRRUA Subdivision, Zoning, Planning, and Platting Areas (SZPPA) within Dona Ana County. |
CITY: | The City of Sunland Park, New Mexico. |
COLLECTOR STREET: | A street of relatively short length that serves as a connection between a major or secondary thoroughfare and several minor streets. The term includes the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for major circulation within such a development. |
COMMISSION: | The City Planning and Zoning Commission. |
COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT: | The Community and Economic Development Department of the City of Sunland Park. |
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: | The Comprehensive Plan of the City of Sunland Park, New Mexico. |
CRRUA SUBDIVISION, ZONING, PLANNING, AND PLATTING AREAS (SZPPA): | The area encompassing the City of Sunland Park extraterritorial planning and platting jurisdiction. |
CUL-DE-SAC: | A minor street with only one outlet and culminated by a turnaround at the dead end. |
DRAINAGE COURSE: | A natural watercourse or indenture for the drainage of surface waters. |
EASEMENT: | A grant by the property owner of the use, for a specific purpose, of a strip of land by the general public, a corporation, or a certain person or persons. |
EXPRESSWAY OR FREEWAY: | A high capacity and high speed major thoroughfare with partially or fully controlled access to abutting properties. |
GOVERNING BODY: | The Governing Body of the City of Sunland Park, consisting of the Mayor and City Council. |
IRREVOCABLE LETTER OF CREDIT: | Financial guarantee issued by a federally insured institution made payable to the City of Sunland Park as the sole beneficiary in an amount equal to the full cost of the improvements which are required by this Title, said cost being estimated by the City of Sunland Park and said letter of credit being legally sufficient to secure that the said improvements will be constructed in accordance with this Title. |
LARGE SCALE DEVELOPMENT: | One which consists of not less than fifty (50) acres of land, all of which lies in a contiguous and integrated tract. |
LOT: | A portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land intended for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership or for building development. |
MAJOR THOROUGHFARE: | A street of considerable length that carries, or that planning evidence indicates will carry, a large volume of traffic, and is usually planned in conjunction with State or Federal agencies and is not to serve immediately abutting properties, as designated in the City of Sunland Park Comprehensive Plan, Thoroughfare Plan. |
MARGINAL ACCESS STREET: | A street adjacent to a major thoroughfare which provides access from the thoroughfare to abutting properties. |
MASTER PLAN, SUBDIVISION: | A plan showing spatial layout of land use, circulation and proposed parcels, created for a planned development or for an area that will be subdivided in phases. |
MINOR INDUSTRIAL OR COMMERCIAL STREET: | A street of relatively short length that provides direct access to an industrial district and is designed to discourage its use by through traffic. |
MINOR, OR LOCAL, RESIDENTIAL STREET: | A street of relatively short length that provides direct access to a limited number of abutting residential properties and is designed to discourage its use by through traffic |
PERFORMANCE BOND: | A surety bond or cash deposit made out to the City of Sunland Park in an amount equal to the full cost of the improvements which are required by this Title, said developer's cost estimate being reviewed and accepted by the City Engineer and said surety bond or cash deposit being legally sufficient to secure that the said improvements will be constructed in accordance with this Title. |
PLAT: | Map, chart, survey, plan or replat certified by a licensed registered land surveyor which contains a description of the subdivided land with ties to permanent monuments. |
PRIVATE DEED RESTRICTIONS OR COVENANTS: | Private deed restrictions or covenants, conditions and restrictions (CCRs) are imposed on land by private land owners by deed in writing, and recorded with Dona Ana County. They bind and restrict the land in the hands of present owners and subsequent purchasers. They are enforced by the parties to the agreement. |
READY, WILLING AND ABLE LETTER: | A formal letter from CRRUA stating that CRRUA is ready, willing and able to provide water and sewer service. |
RESUBDIVISION: | Adjustment of platted lot lines for the purpose of increasing or reducing the size of contiguous lots, but to not less than the City minimum size. |
ROADWAY: | That portion of the street available for vehicular traffic and where curbs are laid, the portion from back-to-back of curbs. |
STREET: | All properties dedicated or intended for public or private use for access to abutting lands or subject to public easements therefor, and whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, expressway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, place, circle, or however otherwise designated. |
STREET WIDTH: | The distance between the lot lines measured at right angles to the street center line. |
SUBDIVIDE OR SUBDIVISION: | A. For the purpose of approval by the City means: For the area of land within the corporate boundaries of the City, the division of land into two (2) or more parts by platting or by metes and bounds description into tracts for the purposes numbered below; |
1. Sale for building purposes; | |
2. Laying out any part of the City; | |
3. Adding to the City; | |
4. Laying out suburban lots; or | |
5. Resubdivision. | |
B. For the area of land within the City extra territorial subdivision and platting jurisdiction, the rules and regulations of the Camino Real Regional Utility Authority Extraterritorial Zoning, Planning and Platting Areas apply. | |
SUBDIVIDER: | The term means any person, individual, firm, partnership, association, estate, corporation, trust, or any other group or combination acting as a unit, dividing or proposing to divide land so as to constitute a “subdivision” as defined herein and includes any agent of the subdivider. |
SUBDIVISION, MAJOR: | Any subdivision that does not meet the requirements for the alternative summary procedure and is not classified as a minor subdivision. |
SUBDIVISION, MINOR: | Any subdivision containing not more than ten (10) lots fronting an existing street, not involving any new street or any change in an existing street, not involving the extension of City facilities or the creation of any public improvements, and not adversely affecting in any way the remainder of the parcel or adjoining property. (Ord. 2019-2, 4-12-2019) |