In administering this title, the following definitions shall apply:
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICIAL: Any department, employee, or advisory elected or appointed body which is authorized to administer any provision of the zoning ordinance, this title, and if delegated, any provision of any housing or building regulation or any other land use control regulation of the town.
ALLEY: A minor way dedicated to the public and designed or used primarily for vehicular service access to the rear or side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
ANNEXATION: The act of making a tract of land part of the town.
BLOCK: A parcel of land intended for urban development, entirely surrounded by public streets, other platted lands, natural barriers, railroads or highways.
BUILDING PERMIT: An official authorization by the building official for the town to build a structure under the provisions of the adopted building codes of the town.
COUNCIL: The Wright town council.
COUNTY: Campbell County, Wyoming.
CUL-DE-SAC: A street having one end connected to a through public street and the other end terminated by a vehicular turnaround.
DRAINAGE EASEMENT: A land area designated on a plat or other recorded instrument set aside to accommodate the calculated and approved flow or storage of storm waters and to be kept free of all structures and impediments.
EASEMENT: A designated area or a tract, block, or lot of land which the owner has set aside for the use of others particularly public utilities or drainage.
ENCUMBRANCE: A mortgage or other lien of record securing or evidencing indebtedness and affecting land to be subdivided, including liens for labor and materials. Taxes and assessments are not encumbrances unless they are delinquent.
ENGINEER: A professional engineer licensed in the state of Wyoming.
FRONTAGE: That side of a lot abutting on a street or way and ordinarily regarded as the front of the lot, but it shall not be considered as the internal side of a corner lot.
GRADE: The inclination from the horizontal of a road, utility, land, etc., and is expressed by stating the vertical rise or fall as a percent of the horizontal distance.
IMPROVEMENTS: Street pavement or resurfacing, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, water lines, sewer lines, storm drains, streetlights, flood control and drainage facilities, utility lines, landscaping, and other related matters normally associated with the development of raw land into building sites.
LOCAL STREET: See definition of Street Classifications.
LOT AREA: The amount of surface land contained within the property lines of a lot, including the land within easements on the lot, but excluding any land within the street right of way or public open spaces.
LOT IMPROVEMENT: Any building, structure, place, work of art, or other object, or improvement of the land on which they are situated, constituting a physical betterment of real property, or any part of such betterment.
LOT OF RECORD: A lot which is part of a subdivision recorded in the office of the county recorder, or a lot or parcel described by metes and bounds, the description of which has been so recorded.
LOT OR PARCEL: A portion of land in a subdivision or plat of land, separated from other lots or portions of land by description as on a subdivision or record of survey map or by metes and bounds for the purpose of sale, lease, or separate use.
MAJOR STREET: See definition of Street, Major.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREET: See definition of Street, Marginal Access.
MASTER PLAN: A comprehensive plan for development of the town of Wright prepared and adopted by the planning and zoning commission, pursuant to state law, and including any part of such plan separately adopted and any amendment to such plan, or parts thereof.
MASTER STREET PLAN: See definition of Official Map.
MOBILE HOME SUBDIVISION: Any development which is intended to be utilized primarily for placement of two (2) or more mobile homes on individual lots either for sale or lease.
MONUMENTS: Permanent concrete or metal markers used to establish definitely all lines of the plat of a subdivision, including all lot corners, boundary line corners, and points of change in street alignment.
OFF SITE: Any premises not located within the area of the property to be subdivided, whether or not in the same ownership of the applicant for subdivision approval.
OFFICIAL MAP: The map established by the town council pursuant to law showing the streets, highways, and parks, laid out, adopted and established by law, and any amendments or additions thereto adopted by the town council of additions thereto resulting from the approval of subdivision plats by the planning and zoning commission and the subsequent filing of such approved plats.
OPEN SPACE: An area open to the sky which may be on the same lot with a building. The area may include, along with the natural environmental features, swimming pools, tennis courts, any other recreational facilities that the planning and zoning commission deems permissible. Streets, structures for habitation, and the like shall not be included.
ORDINANCE: Any legislative action, however denominated, of the town council which has the force of law, including any amendment or repeal of any ordinance.
OWNER: Any person, group of persons, firm, or firms, corporation or corporations, or any other legal entity having legal title to or sufficient proprietary interest in the land sought to be subdivided under these regulations.
PERIMETER STREET: Any existing street to which the parcel of land to be subdivided abuts on only one side.
PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT: Authorization by the town engineer to commence construction of subdivision improvements according to approved plans and specifications.
PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION: The Wright planning and zoning commission established in accordance with law.
PLAT, FINAL: The final map, drawing or chart upon which the subdivider's plan of subdivision is presented to the planning and zoning commission for approval, and which, if approved, will be submitted to the county clerk for recording.
PLAT, MINOR: The final map, drawing or drawings described as a final plat in these regulations upon which the subdivider's plan of subdivision is presented for any subdivision of five (5) or less lots in which no new streets or other utilities are dedicated or any existing ones vacated. A minor plat shall not require the submittal of a preliminary plat or supporting documents for a preliminary plat. It shall require submittal of all items required for a final plat as specified herein except those items pertaining to public improvements, streets or utilities. A minor plat shall include a drainage plan.
PLAT, PRELIMINARY: The preliminary drawing or drawings described in these regulations indicating the proposed manner or layout of the subdivision to be submitted to the planning and zoning commission for approval.
PLAT, SKETCH: A planning plat submitted to the planning and zoning commission for informational purposes and upon which the planning and zoning commission will provide informal comments upon request prior to submittal of a preliminary plat.
PROPRIETOR: Any person or firm having equitable interest in land.
PUBLIC FACILITY: Any use of land, whether publicly or privately owned, for transportation, utilities, or communications, or for the benefit of the general public, including, but not limited to, libraries, streets, schools, fire or police stations, county buildings, municipal buildings, recreational centers, including parks, and cemeteries.
PUBLIC WAY: 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 way in which the general public or a public entity has a right, or which is dedicated, whether improved or not.
RESUBDIVISION: Any amendment to an already approved and recorded plat divided into two (2) or more parcels.
RIGHT OF WAY: A strip of land dedicated for public use for streets, alleys or roads crossing the real property of another person.
RIGHT OF WAY WIDTH: The distance between property lines measured at right angles to the centerline of the right of way.
SALE OR SELL: Any immediate or future transfer of ownership, or any possessory interest in land, including contract of sale, lease, devise, intestate succession, or transfer, or an interest in a subdivision or part thereof, whether by metes and bounds, deeds, contract, plat, map, lease, devise, intestate succession, or other written instrument.
SAME OWNERSHIP: Ownership by the same person, corporation, firm, entity, partnership, or unincorporated association; or ownership by different corporation, firms, partnerships, entities, or unincorporated associations, in which a stockholder, partner, or associate, or a member of his family owns an interest in each corporation, firm, partnership, entity, or unincorporated association.
SPECIFICATIONS: The engineering specifications of the town prepared by the town engineer and/or the Wright water and sewer district for the purpose of regulating the installation of any public improvement or facility required to be installed as a condition of approval of the subdivision plat.
STREET: A public right of way which affords primary vehicular traffic or pedestrian access to abutting properties; includes avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway, parkway, thoroughfare, and viaduct; but shall not include an alley for the purposes of this title.
STREET CLASSIFICATIONS:
Arterial Street: A major street or highway with fast or heavy traffic of considerable continuity and used primarily as a traffic artery for intercommunications among large areas.
Collector Street: A street collecting traffic from local streets, and connecting the same with a major street, or another collector street.
Local Street Or Minor Street: A street exclusively or primarily providing access to abutting properties.
STREET LINE: The dividing line between the street and the lot, also known as right of way line.
STREET, MAJOR: A road intended to move through traffic to and from such major attractors as central business districts, regional shopping centers, colleges and/or universities, major industrial areas, and similar traffic between neighborhoods.
STREET, MARGINAL ACCESS: A local or collector street, parallel and adjacent to an arterial street providing access to abutting properties and protection from arterial streets (also called frontage road).
STREET ROADWAY WIDTH: The distance between the curb faces measured at right angles to the centerline of the street.
STREET WIDTH: The distance between street right of way lines measured at right angles to the centerline of the street.
SUBDIVIDER: Any person who lays out any subdivision or parts thereof, either for the account of the subdivider or others.
SUBDIVISION: The division of a tract or parcel of land into two (2) or more parts for immediate or future sale or building development; including the term "resubdivision".
SUBDIVISION PLAT: The final map or drawing, described in these regulations, on which the subdivider's plan for subdivision is presented to the planning and zoning commission and town council for approval and which, if approved, may be submitted to the county clerk or recorder of deeds for filing.
SURVEYOR: A land surveyor licensed to practice in Wyoming.
THROUGH LOT: A lot other than a corner lot with frontage on more than one street. Through lots abutting two (2) streets may be referred to as double frontage lots.
UNIT: A portion of a subdivision selected for development as one of a series of stages.
VARIANCE: A variance is a modification of the strict terms of the relevant regulations where such modifications 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.
VICINITY MAP: A drawing located on the plat which sets forth, by dimensions or other means, the relationship of the proposed subdivision or use to other nearby developments or landmarks and community facilities and services within the town and/or county in order to better locate and orient the area in question.
WALKWAY: A dedicated public way for pedestrian use only, whether along the side of a road or not.
ZONING ORDINANCE: The duly adopted zoning ordinance of the town of Wright 1 . (Ord. 93-9, 6-14-1993; amd. Ord. 2000-09, 7-24-2000)
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| 1 | 1. See title 11 of this code. |