§ 152.02 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   ALLEY or SERVICE DRIVE. A passage or way affording generally a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting properties.
   BLOCK. A piece or parcel of land entirely surrounded by public highways, streets, streams, railroad rights-of-way or parks and the like, or a combination thereof.
   CUL-DE-SAC. A street having one end open to traffic and being permanently terminated by a vehicle turnaround.
   DEAD-END STREET. A street, similar to a cul-de-sac, but providing no turnaround at its closed end.
   EASEMENT. A grant by the property owner to the public, a corporation or persons of the use of a strip of land for specific purposes.
   IMPROVEMENTS. Street pavements with curbs and sidewalks, pedestrian ways, water mains, sanitary and storm sewers, permanent street monuments, trees and other appropriate items.
   LOCAL STREET or COLLECTOR STREET. A street intended to serve and to provide access to neighborhoods or sub-neighborhoods.
   LOT. A portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land intended as a unit for transfer of ownership or for development.
   MASTER PLAN. The comprehensive plan made and adopted by the Planning Commission indicating the general locations recommended for the major thoroughfares, streets, parks, public buildings, zoning districts and other public improvements.
   MINOR STREET. Any street not a highway, primary or secondary thoroughfare, parkway or local or collector street, and intended to serve and to provide access exclusively to the properties abutting thereon.
   PEDESTRIAN WAY. A right-of-way, dedicated to public use, which cuts across a block to facilitate pedestrian access to adjacent streets and properties.
   PLAN OF MAJOR STREETS, SCHOOLS AND PARKS. The official plan of primary and secondary highways, thoroughfares and parkways, public schools, parks, playgrounds and other open public grounds, adopted by the Planning Commission.
   PLANNING COMMISSION. The City Planning Commission.
   SETBACK LINE or BUILDING LINE. A line on a plat generally parallel to the street right-of-way, indicating the limit beyond which buildings or structures may not be erected.
   SUBDIVISION.
      (1)   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 purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership; 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; or
      (2)   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.
   SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS. Ordinance 1868, passed 9-15-1966, as amended, which is codified in this chapter.
(2003 Code, § 152.02) (Ord. 1868, passed 9-15-1966)