As used in these Subdivision Regulations:
Alley: Alley" means a dedicated thoroughfare not more than ten (10) feet wide where required for pedestrian use exclusively and not less than twenty (20) feet wide where required for vehicular use.
Arterial Street: See "Street"
Block: "Block" means a unit of continuous lots or an area of land bounded by streets, public parks, or by other definite limits.
Boundary Line: "Boundary line" means a line delineated that establishes the limits of an area.
Buffer Lot: "Buffer Lot" means a lot on a plat across the end of a street proposed to be extended by future platting, or a lot along the length of a street where only part of the width has been dedicated, which lot has been retained by the owner but conditionally dedicated on the plat for street purposes when the street is extended or widened.
Building: "Building" means a structure having a roof supported by columns or walls for the shelter, support or enclosure of persons, animals, property, or chattels. When separated by division walls from the ground up without openings, each portion of such building shall be deemed a separate building.
Building Line: "Building Line" means a line established on a parcel for the purpose of prohibiting construction of a building between such line and an easement, right-of-way or other public area in the interest or protecting the general welfare. (See Set Back Line)
Chairman of the Planning Commission: "Chairman of the Planning Commission" means a member of the Commission who presides over the Commission hearings as Chairman and is the signator to all subdivisions of land acted on by the Commission.
Collector Street: See "Street"
Commercial Development: "Commercial Development" means a planned commercial center providing building areas, parking areas, service areas, screen planting and adjacent roadway improvements.
Covenant: "Covenant" means a private legal restriction on the use of land, contained in the deed to the property or otherwise formally recorded.
Crosswalkway: "Crosswalkway" means a right of way dedicated to public use, ten (10) feet in width, through a block along lot lines to facilitate pedestrian access to adjacent streets and properties.
Cul-de-Sac: See "Street"
Culvert: "Culvert" means a transverse drain that channels under a bridge, street, or driveway.
Curb Grade: "Curb Grade" means the elevation of the established curb in front of the building measured at the center of such front. Where no curb grade has been established, the Whitehouse Engineer shall establish such curb grade or its equivalent for the purpose of this Ordinance.
Dead-end Street: See "Street"
Density: "Density" means a unit of measurement representing the number of dwelling units per acre of land.
(a) Gross Density - the number of dwelling units per acre of total land to be developed including right-of-ways.
(b) Net Density - the number of dwelling units per acre excluding right-of-ways.
(c) Gross Acre - total acreage of a parcel including public rights-of-way and easements.
(d) Net Acre - total acreage of a parcel excluding public rights-of-way and easements.
(e) Density Classification
(1) Low - no greater than 1.5 units per net acre
(2) Low-Medium - 1.5 to 2.2 units per net acre
(3) Medium - 2.2 to 3.9 units per net acre
(4) Medium-high - 3.9 to 5.0 units per net acre
(5) High - greater than 5 units per net acre
Drawing: "Drawing" means a preliminary drawing, containing all the information required under Section 1123.04(m).
Drive-Up: "Drive-Up" means an establishment or facilities where goods or services are provided from windows or in drive through areas to customers in cars or to the cars and where the cars are temporarily stopped or standing and which commonly does, or could involve a lineup of cars waiting in line for such goods or services. Current examples of drive-up developments include but are not limited to car washes, drive-up windows at banks and fast food restaurants.
Easement: "Easement" means a grant by a property owner of the use of a strip of land by the public, a corporation or a person for specific purposes.
Engineer: "Engineer" means a registered engineer authorized to practice civil engineering as defined by ORC Chapter 4733.
Flood Plain: "Flood Plain" means that portion of land adjacent to a river, creek or ditch which is covered with water when the river, creek or ditch overflows its banks at flood stage, or which is estimated to become subject to flooding.
Frontage: "Frontage" means all of the property on one (1) side of a street between two (2) intersecting streets (crossing or terminating), measured at the set back building line - or if the street is dead ended, then all of the property abutting on one side between an intersecting street and the dead-end of the street.
High Water Level: "High Water Level" means the estimated high water level as determined by the appropriate public agency from calculation based on a 25-year rainfall frequency.
Improvement: "Improvement" means street pavements, with or without curb or gutter; sidewalks; crosswalkways; water mains; sanitary and/or storm sewers; monuments; or other items specified in Chapter 1131.
Industrial Development: "Industrial Development" means a planned industrial area specifically for an industrial use and providing screen planting and adjacent roadway improvements.
Local Street: See "Street"
Loop Street: See "Street"
Lot: "Lot" means a designated parcel of land in a plat intended as a unit for transfer of ownership or to be occupied by a building and its accessory buildings, together with such open spaces as are required by law, and having its principal frontage upon a public street.
Lot Split: "Lot Split" means a minor subdivision of land which involves the subdivision of a lot into five (5) or fewer lots that does not involve the opening, widening or extensions of any street or road.
Major Street: See "Street"
Major Street Plan: "Major Street Plan" means the Whitehouse Major Street Plan which designates roadways as expressways, principal arterial, minor streets, major collectors or local collectors.
Major Subdivision: "Major Subdivision" means a division of a parcel of land that requires a plat to be approved by the Whitehouse Planning Commission in accordance with Chapter 711 ORC.
Marginal Access Street: See "Street"
Master Plan: "Master Plan" means the comprehensive plan made and adopted by the Council indicating the general locations recommended for streets parks, public buildings, zoning districts and other public improvements.
Minor Street: See "Street"
Minor Subdivision: "Minor Subdivision" means a division of a parcel of land which does not require a plat to be approved by Whitehouse Planning Commission in accordance with Chapter 711.131 ORC also known as a lot split (deed transfer).
Monuments: "Monuments" are defined as follows:
(a) Type A Monument: "Type A monument" means a cylindrical concrete marker, six (6) inches in diameter and thirty (30) inches in length, with a one-fourth (1/4) inch iron rod cast at the central axis of the cylinder. Such marker shall be placed in a vertical position with its top being level with the surface of the surrounding ground.
(b) Type B Monument: "Type B monument" means a cylindrical concrete marker as described under Type A, except that a machine type iron bolt (without nut) of one (1) inch in diameter by twelve (12) inches in length shall be placed in a vertical position with the head of the bolt upward and level with the surface of the pavement. A point shall be marked on the head of the bolt to indicate the exact point referred to on the final plat.
Multi Use Path: "Multi Use Path" means a form of infrastructure that supports multiple recreation and transportation opportunities, such as walking, bicycling, inline skating and people in wheelchairs. Motorized vehicles are prohibited. A multi-use path typically has a surface that is asphalt, concrete, or firmly packed crushed aggregate and is physically separated from motor vehicular traffic with an open space or barrier.
Open Space: "Open Space" means an area open to the sky which may be on the same lot with a building. The area may include parkland along with the natural environmental features, swimming pools, tennis courts, and any other recreational facilities that the Planning Commission deems permissive. Streets, structures for habitation, and the like shall not be included.
Original Parcel: "Original Parcel" means the tract of land that is a contiguous quantity of land held in common ownership which has not been platted by the existing owner or owners.
Out Lot: "Out Lot" means property shown on a subdivision plat outside of the boundaries of the land which is to be developed and which is to be excluded from the development of the subdivision.
Parcel: "Parcel" means a unit of land as shown on the tax duplicate.
Parking Lot: "Parking Lot" means any off-street area or structure which meets one (1) of the following conditions:
(a) Contains one (1) or more parking, vehicular storage, loading or stacking spaces for commercial, institutional, recreational or industrial use, whether free or for compensation; or
(b) Contains five (5) or more parking spaces for any residential use.
Parking Space: "Parking Space" means an area exclusive of any driveway or other circulation area, accessible from a street, alley or maneuvering area and designed for temporary parking of a motor vehicle.
Performance Bond or Surety Bond: "Performance Bond or Surety Bond" means an agreement by a subdivider or developer with Whitehouse 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 subdividers's agreement.
Place: "Place" means a private thoroughfare other than a street or alley, permanently reserved as a lot on a record plat as the principal means of access to abutting property, approved under applicable subdivision regulations by Whitehouse in accordance with ORC Chapter 711 and 713.
Planned Unit Development: "Planned Unit Development" means an area of land in which a variety of housing types and subordinate commercial and industrial facilities are accommodated in a preplanned environment under more flexible standards, such as lot sizes and setbacks, than those restrictions that would normally apply under these regulations.
Planning Commission: "Planning Commission" means the Whitehouse Planning Commission. The Planning Commission shall consist of the Mayor and four (4) electors of the municipality not holding any other municipal office. The Planning Commission shall have the powers and duties conferred upon it by the Charter and by Ordinances of the Council enacted pursuant thereto and in addition shall have such powers not inconsistent with the Charter or Ordinances as may now or hereafter be granted by the laws of the State of Ohio. It shall adopt and recommend to Council a comprehensive general plan for the physical development of the municipality or the redevelopment of any area or district therein, which shall include the location of public ways, property, bridges, public grounds, utilities, buildings, parks, playgrounds and recreation areas, and plans or proposals for the reservation and acquisition of lands thereof. (Section 12.08 of the Charter)
Plat: "Plat" means a map of a tract or parcel of land, the details of which are provided for in Section 1123.05.
Public Way: "Public Way" means an alley, avenue, boulevard, bridge, channel, ditch, easement, expressway, freeway, highway, land, parkway, right-of-way, road, sidewalk, street, subway, tunnel, viaduct, walk, or other ways in which the general public or a public entity have a right, or which are dedicated, whether improved or not.
Public Right-of-Way: "Public Right-of Way" means a strip of land taken or dedicated for use as a public way. In addition to the roadway, it normally incorporates the curbs, lawn strips, sidewalks, lighting, and drainage facilities, and may include special features (required by the topography or treatment) such as grade separation, landscaped areas, viaducts, and bridges.
Roundabout: "Roundabout" means a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic flows almost continuously in one direction around a central island. Roundabouts require entering traffic to give way to traffic already in the circle and optimally observe various design rules to increase safety. Compared to stop signs, traffic signals, and earlier forms of roundabouts, modern roundabouts reduce the likelihood and severity of collisions by reducing traffic speeds and minimizing T-bone and head-on collisions.
Secretary to the Planning Commission: "Secretary to the Planning Commission" means a member of the Commission who records the minutes and publishes meeting notices and agendas for all Planning Commission meetings and hearings.
Setback Line: "Setback Line" means a line established by zoning, platting, or other legal means on a lot, that is a specified distance from and parallel to the lot line, to restrict the encroachment of buildings on the lot line. (See Building Line)
Sidewalk: "Sidewalk" means that portion of the road right-of-way outside the roadway, which is improved for the use of pedestrian traffic. (See Walkway)
Street: "Street" means a right-of-way dedicated to the public use which provides vehicular and pedestrian access to abutting properties.
(a) Arterial Street: A general term denoting a highway primarily for through traffic, carrying heavy loads and large volume of traffic, usually on a continuous route.
(b) Collector Street: A thoroughfare, whether within a residential, industrial, commercial, or other type of development, which primarily carries traffic from local streets to arterial streets including the principal entrance and circulation routes within residential subdivisions.
(c) Cul-de-Sac: A local street of relatively short length with one (1) end open to traffic and the other end terminating in a vehicular turnaround.
(d) Dead-end Street: A street temporarily having only one (1) outlet for vehicular traffic and intended to be extended or continued in the future.
(e) Local Street: A street primarily for providing access to residential, commercial, or other abutting property.
(f) Major Street: An expressway, dual highway, dominant major street, major street or secondary major street which serves, or is intended to serve, as the principal traffic way between areas or districts. For terms which identify these streets and their required right-of-way widths, see Section 1127.03(b).
(g) Minor Street: A street other than a major thoroughfare.
(h) Loop Street: A type of local street, each end of which terminates at an intersection with the same arterial or collector street, and whose principal radius points of the 180-degree system of turns are not more than 1,000 feet from said arterial or collector street, nor normally more than 600 feet from each other.
(i) Marginal Access Street: A local or collector street, parallel and adjacent to an arterial or collector street, providing access to abutting properties and protection from arterial or collector streets. (Also called Frontage Street).
Structure: "Structure" means anything constructed, erected, or placed on the land, the use of which requires a more or less permanent location on the land, or attached to something having a permanent location on the land. This includes and is not limited to buildings, walls, fences, advertising signs and billboards.
Subdivider: "Subdivider" means the owner of land, being a person, firm, corporation or legal entity, effecting the subdivision of land.
Subdivision: "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 (2) or more parcels, sites or lots, any of which is less than five (5) acres, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, or transfer of ownership, provided that the division or partition of land into parcels of more than five (5) 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
(b) The improvement of one (1) or more parcels of land for residential, commercial or industrial structures or groups of structures, or groups of structures involving the division or allocation of land for the opening, widening or extension of any street, except a private street serving industrial structures; or the division or allocation of land as open spaces for common use by owners, occupants or lease holders, or as easements for the extension and maintenance of public sewer, water, storm drainage or other facilities. (See Minor Subdivision).
Surveyor: "Surveyor" means a registered surveyor authorized to practice surveying as defined by ORC Chapter 4733.
Tracing: "Tracing" means a translucent drawing on linen, mylar, cronaflex or equal from which a print can be taken directly.
Tree Commission: "Tree Commission" means a group of at least five (5) electors appointed by the Mayor. Additionally, one (1) member of Council and the Village Administrator shall act as advisory members. The Commission shall consider, investigate, make findings, report and recommend upon any special matter regarding street or park trees; disseminate news and information regarding selection, planting and maintenance of trees; recommend species and varieties of trees to be planted; implement an Arbor Day observance; establish and maintain an inventory of street trees; and formulate a Master Plan for the care of current and future trees on public lands. (Chapter 167 of the Codified Ordinances)
Variance: "Variance" means a modification of the strict terms of the relevant regulations where such modification will not be contrary to the public interest and where owing to conditions peculiar to the property and not the result of the action of the applicant, a literal enforcement of the regulations would result in unnecessary and undue hardship.
Walkway: "Walkway" means a dedicated public way, five (5) feet or more in width, for pedestrian use only, whether along the side of a road or not (See Sidewalk).
(Ord. 10-2016. Passed 12-20-16.)