As used in these Subdivision Regulations, certain words are defined as follows:
(1) "Block" means a piece or parcel of land entirely surrounded by public highways, public streets, railroad rights of way, parks, streams, lakes or bodies of water or a combination of the aforesaid bounds.
(2) "Building site" means that portion of the lot or parcel of land upon which the building and appurtenances are to be placed, or are already existing, including adequate areas for sewage disposal, clearance, proper drainage and appropriate easements.
(3) "Comprehensive plan" means the master plan, which may consist of several maps, data, etc., or any portion thereof, made and adopted by the Planning Commission, which shows the general location and extent of physical facilities including major streets and main thoroughfares, parks, schools, and other public open spaces, and public building sites.
(4) "County" means Tuscarawas County, State of Ohio.
(5) "County Engineer" means the County Engineer of Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
(6) "Crosswalk" means a right of way which cuts across a block to facilitate access to adjacent streets and properties.
(7) "Developer" means any person, partnership, corporation or duly authorized agent who constructs or contracts to construct improvements on subdivided land.
(8) "Director of Law" means the City Attorney or Solicitor.
(9) "Easement" means a grant by the property owner for specified use of such land to a corporation, partnership, person or to the public.
(10) "Engineer, Municipal Engineer" means the Engineer of the Municipality or a person appointed by Council or the Planning Commission to perform duties as set forth in these Regulations.
(11) "Final plat" means the final map, drawing or chart on which the subdivider's plan is presented to the Planning Commission for approval and which, if approved, will be submitted to the Recorder of Tuscarawas County.
(12) "Flood plain" means that portion of a river or creek valley adjacent to the drainage channel which is periodically covered with water when the river or creek overflows its bank during the flood stage.
(13) "Hillside area" means an area with an average slope of fifteen percent (15%) or more.
(14) "Improvements" means street improvements, with or without curb or gutter, sidewalks, crosswalks, water mains, sanitary and storm sewers, street trees and other appropriate items.
(15) "Location map" means a drawing at a reduced scale which shows legibly, by dimension and/or other means, enough area beyond the bounds of the proposed subdivision to locate and orient the subdivision within the vicinity, and the relationship of the site to the community facilities which serve or influence the property.
(16) "Lot" means a parcel of land intended for transfer of ownership or building development, having its principal frontage on a public street, except for those lots on private lands as allowed by the Commission in cluster subdivisions.
(17) "Municipality" means the City of Uhrichsville.
(18) "Neighborhood unit" means an area of sufficient size to permit the design and development of an integrated urban unit containing, in addition to a variety of residential types and groupings, its own elementary school, local business district, churches, clubs and recreation area, and bounded by arterial highways, major streets, and/or natural physical barriers.
(19) "Official highway plan" means a plan designating a system of principal or major streets and highways for traffic intercommunication.
(20) "Owner" means any individual, firm, association, syndicate, copartnership, corporation, trust, or any other legal entity having sufficient propriety interest in the land sought to be subdivided who commences and maintains proceedings to subdivide the same under these Regulations.
(21) "Pad" means a building site prepared by artificial means, including grading, excavation, or filling, or any combination thereof.
(22) "Performance bond" or "surety bond" means an agreement by a subdivider or developer with the Municipality for the amount of the estimated construction cost guaranteeing the completion of physical improvements according to plans and specifications within the time prescribed by the subdivider's agreement.
(23) "Planning Commission" or "Commission" means the Planning Commission of Uhrichsville, Ohio.
(24) "Plat" means a map upon which the subdivider's plan of the subdivision is presented and which he submits for approval and intends to record in the final form.
(25) "Preliminary plan" means the preliminary plan, drawing or chart indicating the proposed layout of the subdivision.
(26) "Prosecutor" or "County Prosecutor" means the Prosecutor of Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
(27) "Regulation" means the Subdivision Regulations for Uhrichsville, Ohio.
(28) "Reserve" means parcels of land within a subdivision that are intended for future use.
(29) "Setback line" means a line indicating the minimum horizontal distance between the street easement or right-of-way line and buildings or any projection thereof other than steps or permanently open porches, unless otherwise specifically defined.
(30) "Solicitor" means the Director of Law of the Municipality.
(31) "Street" means a way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, freeway, road, boulevard, avenue, lane, place, or however otherwise designated.
A. Intercommunity thoroughfares:
1. Interstates or expressways which possess extra-wide rights of way carrying high traffic volumes of unobstructed, limited-access vehicular movement.
2. Limited-access highways which intercept several major streets and may or may not have separated intersections. These are principal or heavy-traffic streets of considerable continuity, used primarily as traffic arteries for intercommunication between large areas.
B. Intracommunity streets:
1. Major streets are those local thoroughfares which carry crosstown traffic through several neighborhoods, thereby servicing several residential collector streets.
2. Collector streets are primary streets serving industrial and commercial areas on the principal streets, which carry traffic from minor streets to major streets, including the principal entrance streets of residential developments and primary circulation routes within such developments.
3. Minor streets are used primarily for access to abutting properties.
4. Marginal access streets are minor streets which are parallel and adjacent to arterial streets and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from major streets or thoroughfares.
5. Cul-de-sacs or dead-end streets are minor streets with only one outlet.
6. Alleys are minor ways which are used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
C. Intercounty streets: Primary thoroughfares which are used for intercommunity travel.
D. Intracounty streets: Secondary thoroughfares which are minor roads in rural areas used for travel within a township or from farm to farm.
E. Street width: The shortest distance between the lines delineating the right of way of a street.
(32) "Subdivider" means any individual, firm, association, syndicate, copartnership, corporation, trust or any other legal entity commencing proceedings under these Regulations to effect a subdivision of land hereunder for himself or for another.
(33) "Subdivision" means:
A. 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 of ownershp, 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 such sale or exchange does not create additional building sites, shall be exempted.
B. The improvement of one or more parcels of land for residential, commercial or industrial structures or groups of structures 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 leaseholders, or as easements for the extension and maintenance of public sewer, water, storm drainage or other public facilities.
(Ord. 1389. Passed 1-10-80.)