For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACCESS. The way over which traffic moves to and from the property abutting a street or alley and the way over which traffic moves to and from a major street to a minor street or from a street to an alley.
ALLEY. A permanent service right-of-way which affords only a secondary means of access from such right-of-way to abutting property and is not intended for general traffic circulation.
AREA, LOT. The total area within the lot lines.
BASE FLOOD ELEVATION (BFE). The elevation in relation to mean sea level of the crest of the base flood.
BLOCK. A tract of land bounded by streets, or by a combination of streets and public parks, cemeteries, railroad right-of-ways, shorelines of waterways, or boundary lines of a municipalities.
BOARD OF HEALTH. The Tazewell County Board of Health or its authorized representative.
CABLE TELEVISION (CATV) COMPANY. A person, firm, or corporation who has obtained a franchise from the appropriate unit of local government to provide television signals for public use via permanently installed coaxial cable.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATOR. The appointed head of the Tazewell County Community Development Department.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. The complete plan or any of its parts for the development of the county as prepared by the Community Development Department or other planning agency and adopted by the County Board as the official plan.
CONTIGUOUS. Abutting or adjoining.
COUNTY. Tazewell County, Illinois.
COUNTY BOARD. The elected, legislative body of Tazewell County, Illinois.
COUNTY CLERK. The elected or appointed County Clerk of Tazewell County, Illinois.
COUNTY ENGINEER. The appointed head of the County Highway Department.
CUL-DE-SAC. A street not to exceed 600 feet in length, having one end open to traffic and being permanently terminated by a circular turn-around having an outside surface diameter of at least 80 feet and a right-of-way line diameter of at least 100 feet.
DEDICATION. Intentional transfer by the developer to the public of ownership of land or an interest in land for public purpose. Dedication may be effected by formal conveyance, or by any other method recognized by the law of the state.
DEVELOPER. Any person, firm, association, corporation, trust or any other legal entity who commences proceedings under these regulations by presenting a subdivision plat or tract survey for approval hereunder.
EASEMENT. A right or privilege held by the public, a corporation, or person for the use of the land of another for specified purposes.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA). The Environmental Protection Agency for the State of Illinois.
FINAL PLAT. The official graphic depiction of a subdivision which is ultimately filed for the record in the Recorder's Office. It shows all lots, easements, streets, and other dedicated areas. The final plat also indicates items such as building setback lines, restricted areas for septic systems and any ingress and egress restrictions.
FINANCIAL SECURITY. The letter of credit, surety bond or cash escrow provided by the developer to secure the proposed street and erosion/stormwater improvements where needed.
FLOOD PROTECTION ELEVATION (FPE). The elevation of the base flood plus two feet of freeboard at any given location in the floodplain.
FRONTAGE. The length of any one property line on any one parcel parallel to and along each public right-of-way it borders.
GRADE. The slope of ground, a road, street, or other public way specified in percentage terms.
GRADE, FINISHED. The final slope of the ground after development, expressed in a percent.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT. The Tazewell County Health Department.
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT. The Tazewell County Highway Department.
IDOT. The Illinois Department of Transportation.
LAND DISTURBING ACTIVITY. Any change in land, which may result in soil erosion from water or wind and the movement of sediments into state or county waters or onto lands in the county, or a change in the amount and/or intensity of storm water run-off, including, but not limited to, the covering with an impervious surface, stockpiling, clearing, grading, excavating, rehabilitating, transporting, depositing, or filling of land.
LAND SURVEYOR (LICENSED PROFESSIONAL). A surveyor who is licensed to practice professional surveying by the State of Illinois.
LAND USE COMMITTEE. The Land Use Committee of the County Board, or any committee assigned its duties.
LOT. A parcel of land legally described or subdivided as a distinct portion or piece of land or lot of record to be separately owned, used, or developed. The term LOT shall have the following meaning: A tract, plot or portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land intended as a unit for the purpose, whether immediate or future, or transfer of ownership or possession, or for building development.
LOT LINE, PROPERTY LINE. A line dividing one lot or one parcel from another lot or parcel or from a street, alley, or other right-of-way.
OUTLOT. A lot depicted on a final plat which does not meet the requirements of the Chapter 157, Zoning Code, for lots of record, and whose use shall be limited to open space, future right-of-way, stormwater detention or retention, or combined with an adjacent lot of record. Outlots shall be prohibited from being improved with a building.
OWNER. An individual, firm, association, syndicate, partnership, corporation, company, organization, trust, or other legal entity having a proprietary interest in a use, structure, lot, or tract of land.
PLAN COMMISSION. The Tri County Regional Planning Commission of Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford Counties.
PLAN DEVELOPMENT. A tract of land developed as a unit under single ownership or control which includes two or more main or principal structures.
PLAT. A map, plan or layout representing a tract of land showing the boundaries, location, and existing conditions such as easements and utilities, or individual properties and streets, or showing a map of a subdivision or site plan.
PLAT ACT. The Illinois Plat Act now in effect or as hereafter amended,765 ILCS 205/0.01 et seq.
PLAT OF VACATION. Any recorded plat that is vacated by the owner of the premises before the sale of any lot therein.
PLAT OFFICER. The person designated by the County Board as administrator of this chapter or their designee.
PLAT REVIEW COMMITTEE. An administrative unit established by this chapter for the purpose of performing technical review of proposed subdivisions.
PRELIMINARY PLAT. A graphic depiction of the proposed lot lines, streets, and other engineering improvements of a proposed subdivision superimposed on a map of the existing topography.
PRIVATE WATER SYSTEM. Any supply which provides water for drinking, culinary, and sanitary purposes and serves an owner-occupied single-family dwelling.
PROJECT. Any development involving modification to land which involves a land disturbing activity.
PROPERTY. The general term denoting either singularly or in combination, an area, lot, parcel, tract, plot, or otherwise designated portion of land.
PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM. A system for the provision of the public of piped water for human consumption, if the system has at least 15 service connections or regularly serves an average of at least 25 individuals daily, at least 60 days per year. The term PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM includes any collection, treatment, storage, or distribution facilities under control of the operator of such system and used primarily in connection with such system, and any collection or pretreatment storage facilities not under such control which are used primarily in connection with such system.
REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER (LICENSED PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER). An engineer who is licensed to practice professional engineering by the State of Illinois, or who is allowed to practice by the State of Illinois under a reciprocity agreement with another state.
RE-SUBDIVISION. The further division of lots or the relocation of lot lines of any lot or lots within a subdivision previously made and approved or recorded according to law.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The entire dedicated tract or strip of land which is to be used by the public for circulation or service.
ROAD COMMISSIONER. The elected or appointed head of the local political township road district.
SANITARY SEWER. A constructed conduit for the collection and carrying of liquid and solid sewage wastes, other than storm waters, to a sewage treatment plant.
SCHOOL. A building or group of buildings and all associated structures, facilities, and grounds in or on which instruction in subjects which are fundamental and essential in general education is offered under the supervision of the Regional Superintendent of Schools.
SEMI-PRIVATE SYSTEM. A water supply which is not a public water system, yet serves a segment of the public other than an owner-occupied single-family dwelling.
SIDEWALK. A paved, surfaced, or leveled portion of the right-of-way, paralleling and usually separated from the street, used as a pedestrian walkway.
STATE. The State of Illinois.
STORM SEWER. A constructed conduit for the collection and carrying of surface waters to a drainage course.
STREET. A thoroughfare within the right-of-way which affords the principal means of access to abutting property. A STREET may be designated as an avenue, boulevard, drive, highway, lane, parkway, place, road thoroughfare, court, or other appropriate name. STREETS are identified according to type of use, as follows:
(1) Urban standard. A street which is located within the planning jurisdiction of an incorporated municipality with an adopted comprehensive plan, subject to their approval.
(2) Rural collector standard. A street which has the primary function of collecting traffic from a local area and moving it to an arterial.
(3) Rural local road standard. Direct access. A street providing direct access to and/or from streets, alleys and abutting properties.
STRUCTURE. Anything constructed or erected with a fixed location on the surface of the ground or underground, or affixed to something having a fixed location on the surface of the ground.
SUBDIVISION. The division of a parcel of land into two or more lots or parcels, any of which is less than five acres in area exclusive of all right-of-way, for the purpose of transfer of ownership or possession, or building development; of if an easement of access or a new street is involved. This term includes any division of land that attempts to avoid the requirements of these regulations. Where appropriate to the content, the term shall relate to the process of subdivision, or to the land subdivided, and shall include re-subdivisions.
TCSWCD. The Tazewell County Soil and Water Conservation District.
TRACT SURVEY. A survey showing the division of a parcel into two or more new parcels, of which are greater than five acres in size and which bears the notations required in § 155.032 (B) below.
YARD. An open space, other than a court, of uniform width or depth on the same lot with a structure, lying between the structure and the nearest lot line, and is unoccupied and unobstructed from the surface of the ground upward except as may be specifically provided by the regulations and standards.
(Res. LU-20-10, passed 11-18-2020)