Agenda - Council Work Session - 01/25/2022

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Street frontage/lot width means the measurement of distance of an entire property width, as measured at the property line or the front yard setback line. Street trees means trees, shrubs, bushes, and all other woody vegetation on land lying between property lines on either side of all streets, avenues, or ways within the city. Streets. (1) Street means a public right-of-way affording primary access by pedestrians and vehicles abutting properties, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, road, avenue or however otherwise designated. (2) Collector street means a street which carries traffic from minor streets to arterials. It includes the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation within such a development. Cul-de-sac means a street with only one outlet and having an appropriate terminal for the safe and convenient reversal of traffic movement. (3) (4) Minor street means a street used primarily for access to the abutting properties and the local needs of a neighborhood. Service street, lane or road means a street which is adjacent to a thoroughfare and which provides access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic. (6) Street width means the shortest distance between the lot lines delineating the right-of-way of a street. (7) Minor arterial means a street primarily designated to carry large volumes of traffic and serves as an intra-thoroughfare between various districts of the city. (8) Major arterial means a thoroughfare (inter -community travel) which is a major vehicle transportation corridor throughout the region. (9) Urban streets means those streets located within the 2000 Urban Area and the Urban Reserve Area. (10) Rural streets means those streets located outside the 2000 Urban Area and the Urban Reserve Area. Structure means either: (5) (1) Anything which is built, constructed or erected; an edifice or building of any kind; or any piece of work artificially built up and/or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner whether temporary or permanent in character, in eluding towers, poles and other supporting appurtenances. (2) Anything manufactured, constructed or erected which is normally attached to or positioned on land, including portable structures, earthen structures, roads, parking lots, and paved storage areas. Any building, sign, or appurtenance thereto, except aerial or underground utility lines, such as sewer, electrical, telephone, telegraph, or gas lines, including towers, poles, and other supporting appurtenances, and fences used to control livestock or delineate boundaries. (3) Structure, principal, means anything that houses or facilitates the principal use of a property. Subdivider means a person, firm or corporation having sufficient proprietary interest in land in order to subdivide the same under this chapter. Subdivision means improved or unimproved land or lands which are divided for the purpose of ready sale or lease, or divided successively within a five-year period for the purpose of sale or lease, into three or more lots or parcels of less than five acres each, contiguous in area and which are under common ownership or control. Substandard use means any use within the land use district existing prior to the date of enactment of the ordinance from which this chapter is derived which is permitted within the applicable land use district but does not (Supp. No. 10, Update 3) Created: 2021-10-01 10:38:19 [EST] Page 29 of 34