SEC. 12.02. DEFINITIONS. As used in this Subdivision Chapter the following words and phrases shall mean:

1. "Alley" - A public or private right-of-way primarily designed to serve as secondary access to the side or rear of those properties whose principal frontage is on a street.

2. "Applicant" - The owner of land proposed to be subdivided for his representation. Consent shall be required from the legal owner of the premises.

3. "Base Lot" - A lot meeting all the specifications within its zoning district prior to being divided into a two-family, townhouse, or quadraminium subdivision.

4. "Block" - An area of land within a subdivision that is entirely bounded by streets, or by streets and the entire boundary or boundaries of the subdivision, or a combination of the above with a river or lake.

5. "Boulevard" - The portion of the street right-of-way between the curb line and the property line.

6. "Building" - Any structure built for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels or movable property of any kind, and includes any structure.

7. "Comprehensive Plan" - The group of maps, charts and texts that make up the comprehensive long-range plan of the City.

8. "Design Standards" - The specifications to landowners or subdividers for the preparation of plats, both preliminary and final, indicating among other things, the optimum, minimum or maximum dimensions of such items as rights-of-way, blocks, easements and lots.

9. "Easement" - A grant by a property owner for the use of a strip of land and for the purpose of constructing and maintaining drives, utilities, including but not limited to, wetlands, ponding areas, sanitary sewers, water mains, electric lines, telephone lines, storm sewer or storm drainage ways and gas lines.

10. "Final Plat" - A drawing or map of a subdivision, meeting all of the requirements of the City and in such form as required by Wright County for the purpose of recording.

11. "Individual Sewage Disposal System" - A septic tank, seepage tile sewage disposal system, or any other approved sewage treatment device.

12. "Lot" - Land occupied or to be occupied by a building and its accessory buildings together with such open spaces as are required under the provisions of the current zoning regulations, having not less than the minimum area required by said zoning regulations for a building site in the district in which such lot is situated and having its principal frontage on a street.

13. "Lot, Corner" - A lot situated at the intersection of two (2) streets, the interior angle of such intersection not exceeding one hundred thirty-five degrees (135o).

14. "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. Certain lot improvements shall be properly bonded as provided in these regulations.

15. "Outlot" - A lot remnant or parcel of land left over after platting, which is intended as open space or other use, for which no building permit shall be issued.

16. "Parks and Playgrounds" - Public land and open spaces in the City dedicated or reserved for recreation purposes.

17. "Percentage of Grade" - On street center line, means the distance vertically from the horizontal in feet and tenths of a foot for each one hundred feet (100') of horizontal distance.

18. "Pedestrian Way" - A public right-of-way or private easement across a block or within a block to provide access for pedestrians and which may be used for the installation of utility lines.

19. "Planning Commission" - The Planning Commission of the City.

20. "Preliminary Plat" - A tentative drawing or map of a proposed subdivision meeting the requirements herein enumerated.

21. "Protective Covenants" - Contracts made between private parties as to the manner in which land may be used, with the view to protecting and preserving the physical and economic integrity of any given area.

22. "Public Improvement" - Any drainage ditch, roadway, parkway, sidewalk, pedestrian way, tree, lawn, off-street parking area, lot improvement or other facility for which the City may ultimately assume the responsibility for maintenance and operation, or which may affect an improvement for which local government responsibility is established.

23. "Quadraminiums" - Single structures which contain four (4) subdivided dwelling units all of which have individually separate entrances from the exterior of the structure.

24. "Setback" - The distance between a building and the property line nearest thereto.

25. "Street" - A public right-of-way affording primary access by pedestrians or vehicles or both, to abutting properties, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, road, avenue or boulevard.

26. "Streets, Thoroughfares, Arterial Streets" - Those streets carrying larger volumes of traffic and serving as links between various subareas of the community. Thoroughfares or arterial streets are intended to provide for collection and distribution of traffic between highways and collector streets; hence regulation of direct access to property is critical.

27. "Streets, Collector Streets" - Those streets which carry traffic from local streets to the major system of arterials and highways. Collector streets primarily provide principal access to residential neighborhoods, including, to a lesser degree direct land access.

28. "Streets, Local Streets" - Those streets which are used primarily for access to abutting properties and for local traffic movement.

29. "Streets, Marginal Access Streets" - Those local streets which are parallel and adjacent to thoroughfares and highways; and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.

30. "Streets, Cul-De-Sac" - A local street with only one outlet and having an appropriate terminal for the safe and convenient reversal of traffic movement.

31. "Street Width" - The shortest distance between lines of lots delineating the street right-of-way.

32. "Subdivider" - Any individual, firm, association, syndicate, copartnership, corporation, trust or other legal entity having sufficient proprietary interest in the land sought to be subdivided to commence and maintain proceedings to subdivide the same under this Chapter.

33. "Subdivision" - The separation of an area, parcel, or tract of land under single ownership into two or more parcels, tracts, lots or long term leasehold interests where the creation of the leasehold interest necessitates the creation of streets, roads, or alleys for residential, commercial, industrial or other use or any combination thereof, except those separations: (a) Where all the resulting parcels, tracts, lots or interests will be twenty (20) acres or larger in size and five hundred (500) feet in width for residential uses and five (5) acres or larger in size for commercial and industrial uses; (b) Creating cemetery lots; (c) Resulting from Court orders, or the adjustment of a lot line by the relocation of a common boundary.

34. "Two Family Dwelling" - A dwelling designed exclusively for occupancy by two (2) families living independently of each other.

35. "Unit Lots" - Lots created from the subdivision of a two family dwelling or a quadraminium having different minimum lot size requirements than the conventional base lot within the zoning district.

Source: Ordinance No. 13.045

Effective Date: 5-24-85