The following definitions apply to the meanings of respective terms as they are to be construed in these regulations.
(1) Alleys. A strip of land dedicated to public use, generally for the purpose of providing access to the rear of properties to which the principal access is provided by an abutting street.
(2) As-built plans. Construction plans revised to show an improvement as actually constructed.
(3) Block. A tract of land that is bounded by a combination of streets, parks, cemeteries, railroad right-of-way, subdivided acreage, lines of watercourses, or water bodies, municipal boundary lines, or any other barrier to the continuity of development.
(4) Building line. A line established in a plat for the purpose of prohibiting construction of any portion of a building or structure between such line and any easement, right-of-way, other public area, lakeshore, or riverbank.
(5) Caption. The name by which the plat is legally and commonly known.
(6) Certificate of final completion. A certificate issued by the Village Engineer, which signifies that the improvement for which the certificate is issued was installed according to the approved engineering plans and the Village of Wolverine Lake engineering standards, and has passed final Village inspection.
(7) Cluster development. A subdivision in which houses are grouped together in several modules, each one visually identifiable as an individual group, and the remainder of the subdivision being developed and reserved for the common enjoyment of the residents of the subdivision as open space or recreation area.
(8) Commercial development. A planned-commercial center providing building area, parking areas, service areas, screen planting, and turning movement and safety lane roadway improvements where necessary or required.
(9) Common open space. An area within a subdivision which is held out of development by the proprietor and designed for the common use or enjoyment of residents of the subdivision. Common open space may contain such complementary structures as are necessary and appropriate for the use or enjoyment of the common open space.
(10) Comprehensive development. A commercial or industrial park or a planned unit development.
(11) Council. The Village of Wolverine Lake Board of Trustees and President.
(12) County. Oakland County, State of Michigan, U.S.A.
(13) County Water Resources Commissioner. Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner.
(14) County health department. Oakland County Health Department.
(15) County plat board. Oakland County Plat Board.
(16) County road commission. Road Commission for Oakland County.
(17) Crosswalk/way. Right-of-way dedicated to public use, which crosses a block to facilitate pedestrian access to adjacent streets and properties.
(18) Cul-de-sac or cul-de-sac street. A short local street with only one end open to vehicular traffic and being permanently terminated at the other end by a vehicular turn-around.
(19) Dead end street. A street with only one end open to vehicular traffic and not provided with a vehicle turn-around at the other end.
(20) Dedication. The intentional appropriation of land by the owner to public use.
(21) Definitions. For the purpose of the ordinance from which this section was derived, certain rules of construction apply for the text: words used in the present tense include the future tense and the singular includes the plural unless the context clearly indicates the contrary; the term "shall" is always mandatory and not discretionary and "may" is permissive; words or terms interpreted or defined by this section shall be used with a meaning of common or standard utilization. The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement of the ordinance from which this section was derived unless otherwise stated.
(22) Development. Any subdivision of land as herein defined or any material change in the use or appearance of any parcel of land subject to the provisions of the ordinance from which this section was derived, or the act of building structures and installing site improvements.
(23) Easement. A grant by the property owner of the use of a strip of land by the public, a corporation, or private person or persons for a specific purpose or purposes.
(24) Engineer. A civil engineer registered in the State of Michigan as a professional engineer.
(25) Filing date. The date of the Planning Commission meeting at which the Planning Commission receives complete application from the Village Clerk.
(26) Floodplains. That area of land adjoining the channel of a river, stream, watercourse, lake or other similar body of water, which will be inundated by a flood that can reasonably be expected for that region.
(27) Master Plan. The master plan for the Village of Wolverine Lake, Oakland County, Michigan as adopted by the Village Planning Commission in accordance with Act 33 of Public Acts of 2008, as amended.
(28) Greenbelt or buffers. A landscaped strip or parcel of land, privately restricted or publicly dedicated as an open space, located between residential property and/or commercial property and/or industrial property and/or institutional property, or between residential property and/or commercial property and/or industrial property and/or institutional property and a primary or collector street for the purpose of protecting and enhancing the environment of the subdivision and/or limiting access to certain streets.
(29) Improvements. Any additions to the natural state of the land, which increase its value, utility or habitability. Improvements include street pavement, with or without curbs and gutters, sidewalks, water mains, storm and sanitary sewers, street trees, and other appropriate and similar items.
(30) Industrial development. A planned industrial area designed specifically for industrial use providing screened buffers, wider streets, and turning movement and safety lane roadway improvements, where needed.
(31) Land Division Act. Act 288, 1967, of the State of Michigan Public Acts, as amended, formerly and commonly known as the Subdivision Control Act, Act 288, 1967.
(32) Lot. A measured portion of a parcel or tract of land, which is described and fixed in a recorded plat.
(33) Lot area. The total area within the lot lines of the lot.
(34) Lot depth. The horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines, measured along the median between the lot lines.
(35) Lot width. The horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured at the setback line and at right angles to the lot depth.
(36) Lot coverage. That part or percent of the lot occupied by buildings or structures including accessory buildings or structures.
(37) Model home. A dwelling unit used initially for display purposes which typifies the type of dwelling units that will be constructed in the subdivision.
(38) Outlet. An "outlet" when included within the boundary of a recorded plat, means a lot set aside for purposes other than a building site such as a park or other land dedicated to public use or reserved to private use.
(39) Parcel or tract. A unit of land in single or joint ownership.
(40) Pedestrian way. A separate right-of-way dedicated to or reserved for public use, which crosses blocks or other tracts of land for the purpose of facilitating pedestrian access to adjacent streets and properties.
(41) Planned unit development. A large-scale development to be constructed, usually in stages, involving a related group of residences and associated uses, planned as an entity and which can be planned, developed, and regulated as one land use, rather than as an aggregation of individual buildings on separate lots.
(42) Planning commission. The Planning Commission of the Village of Wolverine Lake as established under Act 33, Public Acts of 2008, as amended.
(43) Plat. A map or chart of a subdivision of land showing the lot and street arrangement or other features of the area being subdivided.
(44) Pre-preliminary plat. A sketch plan of a proposed subdivision at sufficient accuracy and scale to serve the purposes of procedure as set forth in the ordinance from which this section was derived.
(45) Preliminary plat. A map showing the salient features of a proposed subdivision submitted to the Village Council for purposes of preliminary consideration.
(46) Final plat. A map of all or part of a subdivision prepared and certified as to its accuracy by a registered engineer or land surveyor. Such map must meet the requirements of the ordinance from which this section was derived and of the Land Division Act, Act 288, Public Acts of 1967, as amended.
(47) Replat. The process of changing, or a map or plat which changes, the boundaries of a recorded subdivision plat or part thereof. The legal dividing of an outlot within a recorded subdivision plat without changing the exterior boundaries of the outlot is not a replat.
(48) Proprietor. Any natural person, firm, association, partnership, corporation, or combination of these, including a governmental agency undertaking any development as defined in the ordinance from which this section was derived, and which hold an ownership interest in land, whether recorded or not. The term "proprietor" includes such common references as subdivider, developer, and owner. The word "proprietor" shall not include a person, firm, partnership, corporation, or combination of these, which hold an option to purchase land.
(49) Public utility. All persons, firms, corporations, co-partnerships, or municipal or other public authority providing gas, electricity, water, steam, telephone, telegraph, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, transportation, cable or subscription T.V., or other services of a similar nature.
(50) Reserve strip. A strip of land in a subdivision which extends across the end of a street proposed to be extended by future platting or a strip which extends along the length of a partial width street proposed to be widened by future platting, to the minimum permissible width. All reserve strips shall be designated as outlots on the plat.
(51) Right-of-way. A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a street, pedestrian way, railroad, electric transmission line, oil or gas pipeline, water main, sanitary or storm sewer line, or for another special use. The term "right-of-way" for land platting purposes shall mean that every right-of-way hereafter established and shown on a final plat is to be separate and distinct from the lots or parcels adjoining such right-of-way. Such land area within the right-of-way shall not be included within the dimensions or areas of adjoining lots or parcels. Right-of-way intended for streets, pedestrian ways, water main, sanitary sewers, storm drains, or any other use involving maintenance by a public agency, shall be dedicated to public use by the proprietor, when dedication is requested by the governing body.
(52) Right-of-way street. The distance between property lines measured at right angles to the centerline of the street.
(53) Sidewalk. A facility, placed within the right-of-way of streets, or a facility connecting with buildings, parking lots, or other activities having access to the street right-of-way, for the purpose of providing safe movement of pedestrians.
(54) Street. A right-of-way dedicated and deeded for public use, other than an alley, which provides for vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
A. Major. Those streets of considerable continuity having the primary functions of accommodating relatively large volumes of vehicular traffic and serving to connect areas of principal traffic generation and designated as an arterial in the comprehensive development plan of the subdivision.
B. Collector. Those streets used to collect and distribute traffic between local and major streets, including principal entrance streets to large residential and nonresidential developments.
C. Local. Those streets having a primary function of providing service access to abutting land uses and not designed for high volume of traffic.
(55) Street width. The shortest distance between those lines delineating the right-of-way of streets.
(56) Structure. Any object constructed, erected, or placed with a fixed location on the surface of the ground or affixed to something having a fixed location on the surface of the ground.
(57) Subdivide or subdivision. The partitioning or dividing of a parcel or tract of land by the proprietor thereof or by his heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives, successors or assigns for the purpose of sale, or lease of more than one year, or of building development, where the act of division creates five or more parcels of land each of which is ten acres or less in area; or five or more parcels of land each of which is ten acres or less in area are created by successive divisions within a period of ten years. The term subdivision also refers to any area, which is subdivided in accordance with the foregoing definition.
(58) Subdivider. Any natural person, firm, association, partnership, corporation, or combination of these, including a governmental agency undertaking any development as defined in the ordinance from which this section was derived, and which hold an ownership interest in land, whether recorded or not. The term "proprietor" includes such common references as subdivider, developer, and owner. The word "proprietor" shall not include a person, firm, partnership, corporation, or combination of these, which hold an option to purchase land.
(59) Surveyor. A land surveyor who is registered in the State of Michigan.
(60) Topographical map. A map showing existing physical characteristics, with contour lines, to permit determination of proposed grades and drainage.
(61) Village. The Village of Wolverine Lake, Oakland County, State of Michigan.
(62) Village clerk. The Clerk of the Village of Wolverine Lake.
(63) Village council. The Village Council of Wolverine Lake, Oakland County, Michigan.
(64) Village engineer. A civil engineer registered in the State of Michigan as a professional engineer and appointed to the position of Village Engineer by the Village Council.
(65) Village staff. The Village Administrator, Fire Chief, Village Engineer, and Village Financial Manager.
(66) Zoning ordinance. The zoning ordinance of the Village of Wolverine Lake, Oakland County, Michigan, adopted in accordance with the provisions of Act 110 of the Public Acts of 2006, as amended, and which is now in effect as the zoning ordinance of the Village of Wolverine Lake, Oakland County, Michigan.
(Ord. 106-A86. Passed 4-9-14.)