These definitions are in addition to those contained in the Zoning Ordinance and are equally applicable to both regulations.
(1) "Block" means a piece or parcel of land entirely surrounded by public highways, public streets, railroad rights of way, parks, streams, lakes or bodies of water, or a combination of these bounds.
(2) "Board of Health" means the Board of Health of the Sandusky County General Health District, Sandusky County, Ohio.
(3) "Building line" means a line established by a zoning resolution, generally parallel to a street delineating the minimum allowable distance between the street right of way and the front of a structure.
(4) "Commission" means the Village Planning Commission.
(5) "Comprehensive Development Plan" means the plan made and adopted by the Sandusky County Regional Planning Commission and hereafter amended and supplemented, showing the general location and extent of present and proposed physical facilities including housing, industrial and commercial uses, major streets, parks, schools and other community facilities. This plan establishes the goals, objectives and policies of Sandusky County, Ohio and is kept in the Office of the Commission.
(6) "County Engineer" means the County Engineer of Sandusky County, Ohio.
(7) "Covenant" means a written promise or pledge.
(8) "Crosswalk" means a right of way, ten feet or more in width, which cuts across a block to facilitate pedestrian access to adjacent streets and properties.
(9) "Culvert" means a transverse drain which channels under a street or driveway.
(10) "Developer" means any person, partnership or corporation or duly authorized agent who constructs or contracts improvements on subdivided land.
(11) "Easement" means authorization by a property owner for the use by another, for a specific purpose, of any designated part of his property.
(Ord. 22-93. Passed 11-15-93.)
(11.1) “Engineer” means a registered engineer, as defined by the Registration Act of the State of Ohio.
(Ord. 27-2002. Passed 10-7-02.)
(12) "Environmental audit" means a Phase One (minimum) survey of potential contamination of a site from previous or current activity on that site or adjacent property. The purpose is to clear a site of potential Village liability as it relates to existing or future rights of way, easements or dedicated park land, or to recommend additional phases of investigation to verify these liability issues. This survey is performed by a firm or individual specializing in environmental audits.
(13) "Erosion control". See "Storm water permit".
(14) "Final plat" means the final map, drawing or chart of a subdivision prepared in conformance with the requirements of the Regulations and suitable for recording by the County Recorder.
(15) "Flood plain" means the areas adjoining a watercourse which are expected to be flooded as a result of a severe combination of hydrological conditions.
(16) "Floodway" means the channel of the watercourse and those portions of the adjoining flood plains which are reasonably required to carry any discharge of the regional flood.
(17) "Floodway fringe" means that portion of the regulatory flood plain outside of the floodway.
(18) “Health Commissioner” means the person occupying the office of Health Commissioner within the Sandusky County General Health District or his authorized representative.
(19) "Highway Director" means the Director for the Ohio Department of Transportation.
(20) "Highways", "streets" and "alleys".
(a) "Highway" or "street" means a way for public travel, whether designated as a street, highway, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, place or however, otherwise designated.
(b) "Arterial highway" or "arterial street" or "major street" means a principal or heavy traffic street of considerable continuity and used primarily as a traffic artery for intercommunication among large areas.
(c) "Collector street" means a street which carries traffic from minor streets to arterial or major streets, including the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation within such a development.
(d) "Secondary rural road" means a road which is used for intracounty travel.
(e) "Local rural road" means a minor road in a rural area which is used for travel within a township or from farm to farm.
(f) "Cul-de-sac" means a short minor street with only one outlet and terminating in a vehicular turn-around.
(g) "Marginal access street" means a minor street which is parallel and adjacent to arterial streets and which provides access to abutting properties and protection to through traffic.
(h) "Minor street" means a street used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
(i) "Alley" means a minor way which is used primarily for public travel and service access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
(j) "Street width" means the shortest distance between the lines delineating the right of way of a street.
(21) "Improvements" means street pavement or resurfacing, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, water lines, sewer lines, storm drains, street lights, flood control and drainage facilities, utility lines, landscaping and other related matters normally associated with the development of raw land into building sites.
(22) "Key (location) map" means a drawing at a reduced scale located on the plat which shows legibly, by dimension and/or other means, enough area beyond the bounds of the proposed subdivision to locate and orient the subdivision and the relationship of the site to the community facilities which serve or influence the area.
(23) "Lot". For purposes of these Regulations, a lot is a parcel of land of sufficient size to meet minimum zoning requirements for use, coverage and area, and to provide such yards and other open spaces as are required. A lot shall have frontage on an improved public street, or an approved private street, and may consist of:
(a) A single lot of record;
(b) A combination of complete lots of record, of complete lots of record and portions of lots of record, or of portions of lots of record.
(24) "O.E.P.A." means the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(25) "Official Thoroughfare Plan" means the system of primary and secondary streets for the Village as adopted by Council, on file in the office of the County Engineer and the Regional Planning Commission, together with all amendments thereto subsequently adopted.
(26) "Open space" means an area included with the natural lot and a building. The area may include, along with the natural environmental features, swimming pools, tennis courts, and/or any other recreational facilities that the Planning Commission deems permissive. Streets, structures for habitation and the like shall not be included.
(27) "Owner" means any individual, firm, association, syndicate, co-partnership, corporation, trust or any other legal entity having sufficient proprietary interest in land sought to be subdivided to commence and maintain proceedings to subdivide the same under these Regulations.
(28) "Performance bond" or "surety bond" means an agreement by and between a subdivider or developer and a bonding company in favor of the Village 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 subdivider's agreement.
(29) "Parcel" means any area or tract of land as defined in a recorded deed description and shown on a tax duplicate.
(30) "Planned Unit Development" means an area of land in which a variety of housing types and/or related commercial and industrial facilities are accommodated in a pre-planned environment under more flexible standards, such as lot sizes and setbacks, than those restrictions that would normally apply under these Regulations. The procedure for approval of such development contains requirements in addition to those of the standard subdivision, such as building design principles and landscaping plans.
(31) "Plat" means the map, drawing or chart on which the developer's plan of subdivision is presented to the Regional Planning Commission and which he submits for approval and intends to record in the final form.
(32) "Preliminary plan" means the preliminary plan, drawing or chart indicating the proposed layout of the subdivision.
(33) "Regulations" means the Subdivision Regulations for the Village.
(34) "Reserves" means parcels of land within a subdivision that are intended for future use.
(35) "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.
(36) "Soil report" means a statement of soil conditions by a qualified source.
(37) "Storm water permit" means the E.P.A. NPDES permit required for construction of sites greater than five acres addressing erosion control procedures, and specifically including Notice of Intent Application and Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan.
(38) "Subdivision" means:
(a) The division of any parcel of land shown as a unit or as contiguous units on the tax roll prior to the adoption of these Regulations into two or more parcels, sites or lots, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership.
(b) The improvement of one or more parcels of land for residential, commercial or industrial structures involving the 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 lease holders or as easements for the extension maintenance of public sewer, water, storm drainage or other public facilities.
(39) "Subdivider's agreement" means an agreement by and between a subdivider and/or developer and the applicable Village official that sets forth the manner in which the subdivider and/or developer agrees to proceed with the construction of public improvements and the disposition of lots in the subject subdivision.
(40) "Surveyor" means a registered surveyor, as defined by the Registration Act of the State of Ohio.
(41) "Tracing" means a translucent drawing on linen, mylar, cronaflex or equal, from which a print can be taken directly.
(42) "Utilities" means private and public facilities addressing services for providing gas, cable, telephone, electrical, water (sanitary and storm). All utility coordination is to be initiated by the developer or their representative, including any associated tap fees, assessments, connection charges or impact fees.
(43) "Village Planning Commission" means the Commission which controls the platting of land within the corporate limits of the Village and may control it within a distance of one and one-half miles of its corporate limits.
(44) "Wetlands" means areas inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency or duration sufficient to support, under normal circumstances, a prevalence of vegetation adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. These areas may be as defined by the Corps of Engineers, Soil Conservation Service, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, or the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, and are specifically delineated by a wetlands specialist.
(Ord. 22-93. Passed 11-15-93.)