Whenever the following terms are used in the Subdivision Regulations, they shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
(a) Applicant. The owner of the land proposed for subdivision or its representative who shall have express written authority to act on behalf of the owner. Consent shall be required from the legal owner of the premises.
(b) Block. The tract of land bounded by streets, or by a combination of streets and public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights-of-way, shorelines of waterways, or municipal boundaries.
(c) Buffer. An areas within a property or site, generally adjacent to and parallel with the property line, either consisting of natural existing vegetation or created by the use of trees, shrubs, fences, and/or berms, designed to continuously limit view or ad/or sound from the site to adjacent sites or properties.
(d) City. The City of Westover, Monongalia County, West Virginia.
(e) City Standards. These standards prescribed for the construction of streets, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, sewers, drains, and water mains and services, as set out in the standard plans and specifications prescribed by the Codified Ordinances and the City Code Enforcement Officer.
(f) Code Enforcement Officer. The Code Enforcement Officer of the City of Westover, West Virginia. This position also oversees building inspections in the City. The individual holding this position may also be the designated Director of Public Works for the City.
(g) Commission. The Planning Commission of the City of Westover, West Virginia.
(h) Council. The City Council of the City of Westover, West Virginia.
(i) Curb. A vertical or sloping edge of a roadway.
(j) Dedication. An act transmitting property or interest thereto.
(k) Design Standards. Standards that set forth specific improvement requirements.
(l) Drainage. The removal of surface water or groundwater from land by drains, grading, or other means. This includes control of runoff during and after construction or development to minimize erosion and sedimentation to assure the adequacy of existing and proposed culverts and bridges, to induce water recharge into the ground where practical, to lessen nonpoint pollution, to maintain the integrity of stream channels for their biological functions as well as for drainage, and the means necessary for water supply preservation or prevention or alleviation of flooding.
(m) Easement. A right-of-way granted, but not dedicated, for limited use of private land for a public or quasi-public purpose and within which that owner of the property shall not erect any permanent structures.
(n) Grade. The slope of a road, street, or other public way specified in percentage terms.
(o) Lane. A way, the predominant use of which is to provide vehicular service access to the rear or side lot lines of properties abutting the street. Lanes are considered unnecessary in residential developments, but may be required in other developments.
(p) Lot. A parcel or portion of land separated from other parcels or portions by description, as on a subdivision plat or record of survey map, or by metes and bounds as maybe found in deeds, mortgages, leases, or separate use.
(1) Corner lot. A lot abutting upon two or more streets at their intersection.
(2) Interior lot. A lot bounded by a street on one side only.
(3) Double or reverse frontage lot. An interior lot bounded by a street on front and back. This is also know as a through lot.
(q) Off-tract Improvements. Any improvement required of an applicant that is made off-tract (off-site). Such improvement may be a drainage ditch, roadway, sidewalk or other pedestrian way, tree, park, playground, or other recreation area, off-street parking area, or other improvement that the Planning Commission deems necessary to mitigate off-tract impacts created by the development.
(r) Plat. (1) A map representing a tract of land showing the boundaries and location of individual properties and streets; (2) a map of a subdivision.
(s) Right-of-way. A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a street, crosswalk, railroad, road, electric or cable transmission line, gas pipeline, water main, sanitary or storm sewer main, shade trees, or for another special use.
(t) Screen. A strip at least ten feet wide densely planted shrubs or trees at least four feet high at the time of planting a subdivision, of a type that will form a year-round dense screen at least six feet high.
(u) Sigh Distance. The minimum distance in which a driver, whose eyes are assumed to be four and one-half feet above the pavement surface, can see the top of an object four and one-half feet high on the road.
(v) Sight triangle. A triangular shaped portion of land established at street intersections in which nothing is erected, placed, planted, or allowed to grow in such a manner as to limit or obstruct the sight distance of motorists entering or leaving the intersection.
(w) Street. A way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street, highway, parkway, thoroughfare, throughway, road, avenue, drive, boulevard, place or however otherwise designated. Business and residential streets are identified by the uses permitted on both sides of the street for any one City block by the Zoning Ordinance.
(1) Business street. A street, the predominant use of which is to provide access to abutting business or industrial properties.
(2) Collector street. A street which carries traffic from business and residential streets to the major street system, including the principal entrance streets of a development, and streets for circulation within such development or from any outlying district to a section of the City.
(3) Cul-de-sac street. A local dead-end residential street, with a maximum length of 500 feet measured from the intersection to the center of the turning circle.
(4) Major street. A street which connects collector and business streets within the City, the major purpose of which is to move traffic, but may serve secondary purposes.
(5) Residential street. A street, the predominant use of which is to provide access to abutting residential properties.
(x) Subdivision. All divisions of a tract or parcel of land divided into two or more lots, building sites or other divisions for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sales, legacy or building development, and includes all division of land involving the opening or construction of a new street or change in existing streets.
(1) Original subdivision. The first platting of a property into lots.
(2) Resubdivision. A replatting or any adjustment in property lot lines which combines lots or creates new lots by other means. This action shall constitute a subdivision as defined.
(Ord. 494. Passed 12-7-20.)