For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
A.A.S.H.T.O. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
ACCEPTED PUBLIC STREET. Any street duly accepted for maintenance by the Board of Trustees of the village.
ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES MANUAL. The current Manual of Administrative Policies as published by the Illinois Department of Transportation.
ALLEY. A strip of land, not less than 20 feet in width and not more than 40 feet in width, along the side or in the rear of properties, intended to provide access to these properties.
ALLEY. A minor traffic facility which is used primarily for vehicular access to the back or side of properties abutting upon and having access to another traffic facility.
APPROVED STREET. Any street, whether public or private, meeting standards and specifications of the village.
BUILDABLE AREA. Any portion of the lot that is where a structure(s) may be constructed. Floodway, floodplain, or wetland may be included in the minimum lot size area but may not be buildable.
BUILDING DEPARTMENT. The building department of the village acting through its designated building inspectors.
BUILDING LINE. A line within a lot or other parcel of land so designated on the plat of the proposed subdivision.
COLLECTOR ROAD. A road designed for moderate volumes of traffic and extends for some distance collecting and distributing traffic between major arterials and local roads.
COLLECTOR STREET or SECONDARY STREET. Those existing streets designated as such on the Official Plan of the village and streets proposed as COLLECTOR STREET in new subdivision which are designated with a right-of-way width of 66 to 80 feet, for access of traffic from several minor streets to a major street.
COMMISSION. The Planning and Zoning Board of the village.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. The official plan of Winthrop Harbor as adopted by the Village Board.
CONSERVATION, DEPARTMENT OF. The Illinois Department of Conservation.
COUNTY. Lake County, Illinois.
COUNTY BOARD. The County Board of Lake County.
COUNTY CLERK. The County Clerk of Lake County.
COUNTY RECORDER. The Recorder of Deeds of Lake County.
COUNTY TREASURER. The Treasurer of Lake County.
CROSS-WALKWAYS. A strip of land dedicated to public use, which is reserved across a block to provide pedestrian access to adjacent areas.
CUL-DE-SAC. A street having one open end and terminated by a vehicle turnaround.
DEDICATION. A mutually acceptable arrangement whereby the ownership of a strip or parcel of land or other improvement is transferred to the village or other public agency.
DEVELOPER. Any person subdividing or resubdividing, erecting structures, or causing to have made any improvements to land.
DEVELOPMENT. The total improvement of land through building and development of housing, commercial, and recreational uses in a coordinated manner, including the division, or redivision of any tract or parcel of land.
EASEMENT. A grant or dedication by a property owner for the use of a strip or parcel of land by the general public, a corporation, or a certain person or persons for a specific purpose or purposes.
ENGINEER. A professional engineer registered as such and licensed to practice in the state.
E.P.A. The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
EXPRESSWAY. A fully access controlled divided facility serving high traffic volumes at moderate to high speeds and designed to move vehicular traffic between communities or other large areas.
FINAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN. The specific design of all physical planning and engineering elements necessary to develop the land in substantial compliance with the approved preliminary development plan.
FINAL PLAT. The drawings and documents described in § 152.072.
FRONTAGE. All the property on one side of a street between two intersecting streets (crossing or terminating) or property lines measured along the line of the street, or if the street is dead-ended, then all the property abutting on one side between is intersecting street or property lines and the dead-end of the street.
FRONTAGE ROAD. A public or private marginal access roadway or paved parking lot containing the necessary driveways or traffic ways which are located along the frontage of multiple-family, business, or industrial zoning districts with regulations for purposes of establishing minimum distances between points of access to the accepted street, eliminating parking of motor vehicles on the accepted public street.
HALF ROAD. That road which may ultimately be part of a full road in a development which is providing frontage along one side only. The width shall be at least 50% of the ultimate required road width.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT. The Lake County Health Department.
HEALTH OFFICER. The Administrator of the Lake County Health Department.
HIGHWAY DESIGN MANUAL. The current design manual as published by the Illinois Department of Transportation.
HIGHWAY STANDARDS MANUAL. The current standards manual as published by the Illinois Department of Transportation.
IMPROVEMENT or PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT. Any facility for which the village or other municipal body may ultimately assume the responsibility for maintenance and operation or which is constructed for general public use or benefit.
INDUSTRIAL STREET. Any street included in any subdivision or plot of ground to be used for industrial purposes as defined in the zoning ordinance of the village.
INTERMITTENT STREAM. A stream or portion of a stream that flows only in direct response to precipitation. It receives little or no water from springs and no long-continued supply from melting show or other sources. It is ordinarily dry for more than three months of the year.
INTERSECTION, STREET. The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two highways which join one another at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict. Where a highway includes two roadways 30 feet or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of such divided highway by an intersecting highway shall be regarded as a separate intersection. In the event such intersecting highway also includes two roadways 30 feet or more apart, then every crossing of two roadways of such highways shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
LOCAL ROAD. A road which serves relatively low volumes of traffic in residential areas, subdivisions, and rural areas.
LOT. A parcel of land.
MAJOR ARTERIAL. A facility serving traffic volumes of medium high speed and is usually the main roadway connecting municipalities.
MARGINAL ACCESS ROAD. A local road which is adjacent to or is included in the right-of-way of an expressway, major arterial, collector road, railroad, or utility right-of-way and which provides access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREET. A street which is parallel to and adjacent to primary streets and highways, and which provided access to abutting properties and protection to local traffic from fast, through-moving traffic on the primary streets.
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MINOR STREET. A street intended primarily as access to abutting properties.
NSSD. The North Shore Sanitary District.
OWNER. The individuals, firms, associations, syndicates, co-partnerships, corporations, trusts, or any other legal entities having sufficient proprietary interest in the land sought to be subdivided to commence and maintain proceedings to subdivide the same under the statutes of the state or under the ordinances of the village.
PEDESTRIANWAY. As defined in the Highway Design Manual.
PLANNED DEVELOPMENT. A tract of land which is developed as a per unit under single ownership or control and which includes two or more principal buildings.
PLAT. A map, drawings, or chart on which the subdivider's plan of the subdivision is presented and which the subdivider submits for approval and intends to record in final form.
PONDING. The creation of pockets or depressions which have no surface drainage provided and which, in the event of a failure on the part of inlets or storm sewers, will contain standing water. That portion of surface waters which are flowing will not be considered as PONDING.
PRELIMINARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN. The general design of land to be developed. It is the general concept and design of all physical planning elements related to the rational and economic development of land together with the application of services adequate to support the development of the land.
PRELIMINARY PLAN. Preliminary plan shall mean the drawings and documents described in § 152.130.
PRELIMINARY PLAT. Preliminary plat shall mean the drawings and documents described in § 152.130.
PRIMARY STREET. Primary or major street shall mean a street of considerable continuity which serves or is intended to serve as a major traffic artery between the various sections of the Winthrop Harbor area. (As shown on the Major Thoroughfare Plan, made a part of the Official Plan) (Deleted by Bob M)
PRIVATE ROAD. A road in which no public interest is shown. Such a road is not eligible for public maintenance or improvements and must provide a private means of snow removal. It must conform to all the standards and specifications of this chapter.
PUBLIC AGENCY. Any public board created by authority of the Illinois Compiled Statutes.
PUBLIC STREET. All primary, secondary, and minor streets which are shown on the subdivision plat and are to be dedicated for public use.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. A strip of land dedicated to the village or other agency for roadway or utility purposes.
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ROADWAY or ROAD. The paved area existing on the street right-of-way and not the street right-of- way width.
STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS. The current standard specifications for road and bridge construction adopted by the Illinois Department of Transportation.
STREET. The width of the street right-of-way or easement, whether public or private, and shall not be considered as the width of paving or other improvement on the street right-of-way.
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. A structural engineer registered as such and licensed to practice in the state.
SUBDIVIDER. Any person subdividing or resubdividing land for themselves or for another.
SUBDIVISION. Any subdivision or redivision of any subdivision, tract, parcel, or lot of land into two or more parts by means of mapping, platting, conveyance, change or rearrangement of boundaries or otherwise, and shall also relate to the process of subdividing or to the land subdivided where appropriate to the context.
SUBDIVISION.
(1) The division of land into two or more parts, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership or building development, including all public streets, alleys, ways for public service facilities, parks, playgrounds, school grounds or other public grounds, and all the tracts, parcels, lots, or blocks, and numbering of all such lots, blocks or parcels by progressive numbers, giving their precise dimensions.
(2) Any planned development shall be deemed a
SUBDIVISION for the purpose of these regulations regardless of whether the land is divided into parcels for separate sale or is developed on a lease basis and said SUBDIVISION shall be subject to the improvement and design requirements of this chapter and other requirements specified by the Planning and Zoning Board.
(3) Any division of land made pursuant and in conformity with "An act to revise the law in relation to plats" (Ill. Comp. statutes, ILCS Ch. 765, Act 205) for which such act specifically provides that no subdivision plat is required shall not be considered a
SUBDIVISION and shall be exempt from the requirements of this chapter. However, all lots so created shall conform to all other applicable village zoning, land use and development regulations.
(4) No certificates of occupancy shall be issued until the Superintendent of Public Works and the Village Engineer have recommended acceptance to the President and Board of Trustees for the street, sanitary sewer, storm sewer and water main in the subdivision.
SURVEYOR. A land surveyor registered as such in the state.
TRAFFIC CONTROL MANUAL. The current manual for "Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways" as published by the Illinois Department of Transportation.
TRAFFIC FACILITY. Any public or private right-of-way used for or to be used for travel whether designated as an expressway, highway, arterial, road, street, thoroughfare, avenue, lane, place, alley, or however otherwise designated.
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TRANSPORTATION, DEPARTMENT OF. The Illinois Department of Transportation.
U.S.G.S. The United States Geological Survey, an agency of the United States Department of the Interior.
VILLAGE ENGINEER. The registered professional engineer designated in that capacity by the village.
WATERWAY. A natural course or constructed channel for the flow of water including but not limited to a river, channel, canal, or other navigable body of water used for travel or transport.
WATER RESOURCES, OFFICE OF. The Illinois Office of Water Resources, a division of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
ZONING ORDINANCE. The village zoning ordinance.
(Ord. 1995-0-25, passed 12-26-95)