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Sec. 112-2. Definitions.
For the purpose of these regulations, certain terms used herein are defined as follows:
Alley: A minor public way dedicated to public use for utility easements and vehicular access to the back or the side of properties abutting a street.
Building line: See Setback.
Collector Street: See Street, Collector.
Comprehensive plan: A long-range plan for the planning area including plans for land use, streets, and community facilities.
Contour intervals: Topographic map lines connecting points of equal elevations.
Dead-end street: A street having one end open to traffic and being permanently terminated by a vehicular turnaround.
Dedication: Land and improvements offered to the city, county or state and accepted by them for public use, control and maintenance.
Development plan: A drawing showing all proposed improvements to a piece of property such as streets, parking lots, buildings, drives, signs, utilities, drainage, grading and planting by size and location.
Easement: A grant by the property owner to the public, a corporation of persons, of the use of a strip of land for specific purposes.
Improvements: Physical changes made to property to prepare it for development such as street grading, drainage structures, street surface sidewalks, curbs, gutters, utility lines, bridges and similar items.
Island or street island: Platted greenspace or open space in any street right-of-way, which shall be curbed.
Lot: A portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land, intended as a unit for transfer of ownership or for development.
Major street: See Street, Major.
Minor street: See Street, Minor.
Parcel: An area under one ownership.
Plan, comprehensive: The plan made and adopted by the planning commission and accepted by the city council indicating the general locations recommended for the various land uses, major streets, parks, public buildings, zoning districts and other public improvements.
Plan, major street: A part of the comprehensive plan made and adopted by the planning commission and accepted by the city council classifying certain streets within the planning area jurisdiction as arterial or collector streets.
Plat, final: A complete and exact subdivision plat, prepared for official recording as required by statute, to define property boundaries and proposed streets and other improvements.
Plat, informal: A recorded plat prepared for the transfer of property not considered as a subdivision.
Plat, preliminary: A preliminary plat for a subdivision shall be a formal plan, drawn to scale, indicating prominent existing features of a tract and its surroundings and the general layout of the proposed subdivision and shall meet the requirements outlined herein.
Protective covenants: Restrictions placed in a deed by private agreement between the buyer and seller of land.
Right-of-way: The land opened, reserved or dedicated for a street, walk, drainage or other public purposes.
Setback lines or building lines: A line on a plat generally parallel to the street right-of-way, indicating the limit beyond which buildings or structures may not be erected except as provided in ordinances.
Street: A strip of land, including the entire right-of-way, intended primarily as a means of vehicular and pedestrian travel which may also be used to provide space for sewers, public utilities, trees and sidewalks.
Street, arterial: A street or road of considerable continuity which serves or is intended to serve as the principal trafficway between separated areas or districts and which is the main means of access to the primary street system or expressways.
Street, collector: A street which in addition to serving abutting properties, intercepts minor streets, connects with community facilities, and carries neighborhood traffic to the major arterial street system. Where possible, houses should not front on collector streets.
Street, frontage: A minor street which is generally parallel to and adjacent to a major highway or railroad right-of-way and which provides access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
Street, major: Streets and highways designed to carry large volumes of traffic between major traffic generators.
Street, minor: A street used primarily to provide access to abutting properties.
Subdivider: A person, firm or corporation undertaking to develop a subdivision as defined in these regulations.
Subdivision: A division of a lot, tract or parcel of land into two or more lots or other division of land for the purpose of transfer of ownership or development extension of utilities, dedication of easements or rights-of-way, whether immediate or future, including all changes in street or lot lines; provided, however, that where no new streets or easements of access are involved, the following shall not be included in this definition and may be processed as an informal plat:
The combination or recombination of portions of previously platted lots where the total number of lots is not increased and the original lot areas are not decreased below minimum lot sizes as prescribed by the Springdale Zoning Regulations;
The division of land into parcels of one acre or more;
The subdivision or resubdivision of land where public sewers and improved streets are available, and the resultant lots comply with the requirements of the zoning ordinance.
Tandem lot: A lot which does not have required frontage on a public street or on an approved private street, and which is located behind a lot or a portion of a lot which does have frontage on a public street on an approved private street.
Townhouses: Attached single-family dwelling units, from two units but not exceeding eight units, which can be either single-story or multistory in height; which are physically attached one to another by common or adjoining walls on not more than two sides; which have individual heating, air-conditioning, electrical and plumbing systems; which are located on individually platted lots; which are or may be individually owned or may be rented.
Variances: A modification of the regulations applicable to subdivision or large-scale developments by the planning commission when, due to special conditions, a literal enforcement of the provisions thereof would result in unnecessary hardship to the property owner; provided that the spirit of this Code shall be preserved and substantial justice done.
Waiver: A dispensing with a requirement for the performance of any provisions applicable to subdivisions or large-scale developments upon request to the planning commission with adequate grounds for such relief.
Zero lot line dwellings: Detached single-family dwelling units which are located on individually platted lots without a side yard requirement on one side of the lot. The same interior property line cannot be utilized for zero side yard construction on adjacent lots.
(Code 1973, § 30-2; Ord. No. 2744, § 1, 5-13-97; Ord. No. 3725, § 1, 7-12-05)
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