ARTICLE II. DEFINITIONS
A. The
following words and terms when used in this code shall have the meanings
ascribed thereto:
1. Bikeway: A hard-surfaced path designed and intended
primarily for the use of bicyclists, rather than for pedestrians or motor
vehicles.
2. Block: An area of one or more lots, parcels or
tracts, bounded by existing or proposed roads, streets or rights-of-way or
other boundary conditions.
3. City: The City Manager or his designee(s).
4. Comprehensive
Plan: A long-range plan intended to
guide the growth and development of the community. (Includes the Major Road Plan.)
5. Concept
Plan: A drawing to show an intended
division and/or improvement of land, including the designation of the parcel
to be divided or improved and the adjacent parcels. The size and dimensions of lots in a concept plan are intended to
be approximate, with no requirement that they be sufficiently detailed to
reproduce such divisions on the ground, or be recorded; and therefore, the Planning
Commission's tentative approval of a concept plan shall not make any lot shown
on such plan eligible for sale, transfer, or for an agreement to be sold as
provided in T.C.A. Title 13, Chapter 3, Section 13-3-410 or Chapter 4, Section
13-4-306, 1987.
6. Cul-de-Sac: A street with only one outlet that
terminates in a vehicular turnaround. A
turnaround may be circular or T-shaped/hammerhead design.
7. Dedication: The granting by a landowner of specified
permanent rights or land for public use, as shown by a written instrument or
drawing.
8. Easement: A lawful right or privilege of use for a
specified purpose over land owned by another party.
9. Engineer:
The City Engineer of the City of Oak Ridge,
or other representative duly authorized by the City Engineer.
10. Final
Plat: A plat or plan drawn to show
the division of land into lots, rights-of-way, and easements for utilities,
drainage or other purposes, with appropriate designation of each such division;
and drawn to an accuracy specified in these regulations and sufficient to
locate such features on the ground; and meeting the requirements for
permanent, public recording with a county register of deeds.
11. Greenbelt: Zoning district providing for the
preservation of publicly owned natural areas.
12. Greenway: A linear open space for pedestrian or
bicycle use.
13. Leased
Lot or Lots: Includes one or more
separate parcels or lots defined or referenced by a lease, for whatever term or
period of time, requiring new public street or utility construction to serve
any such defined parcel or lot.
14. Lot: A defined area of land intended for specific use, usually for
residential, commercial, industrial, or institutional use, and having access by
a right-of-way.
15. Parcel: A part or piece of land.
16. Planned
Unit Development: A residential development approved under the Planned Unit
Development provisions of the Oak Ridge Zoning Ordinance.
17. Plat:
Includes plat, plan, plot or replot, as referred to in T.C.A. Section 13-3-401
and Section 13-4-301, 1987, or as subsequently amended.
18. Plat
of Correction: A plat drawn and
submitted which corrects an error(s) or ommission(s) in a previously-submitted
plat, with no additional changes.
19. Preliminary
Plat: A plat, working drawing or
plan, drawn to show the proposed construction of roads, lots, drainage, utilities,
and related features or improvements, and meeting the requirements of these
regulations for such plat or plan.
20. Private
Road: A privately maintained way, route, or path for vehicular passage.
21. Resubdivision: A subdivision which does not require the
provision of additional streets or utilities for any of the new lots being
established. Examples include the
transfer of small area from one existing lot to another, or the combination of
several lots into one lot, or possibly the division of a single large lot with
all required frontage on a public street, and served by utilities, into two or
more legally-conforming smaller lots which also are served by the existing
public street and existing utilities.
22. Road: A way, route, or path for vehicular passage.
23. Right-of-Way: Land owned by a government agency, reserved
for streets, utilities and other public uses.
24. Sidewalk: A way, route or path along the side of a
street or road, separated from the vehicular roadway, reserved principally for
the use of pedestrians.
25. Standard
Construction Requirements and Details (SCRD): The document entitled
"City of Oak Ridge Standard Construction Requirements and Details"
for constructing streets and standard elements of drainage structures,
utilities and similar improvements within the City of Oak Ridge for dedication
to and future maintenance by the City .
26. Street: A vehicular road or thoroughfare within a
right-of-way, usually paved and curbed, often including a sidewalk or other
walks or paths and bordering urban lots; includes street, highway, avenue,
boulevard, parkway, road, lane, alley, and other ways, as referred to in T.C.A.
Sections 13-3-401 and 13-4-301, 1987 or as subsequently amended.
27. Subdivision: The division of a tract or parcel of land
into two (2) or more lots, sites, or other divisions requiring new street,
utility or drainage construction, or any division of five (5) acres or less
for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development,
and includes any such division by lease for the purpose of building development,
or any resubdivision of land.
28. Tennessee Code
Annotated or T.C.A.: Laws of the
State of Tennessee, as listed in the Official Edition of the Tennessee Code
Annotated, 1987, or 1990 or 1991 Supplement, or as may be amended
hereafter.
29. Tract: A defined extent or area of land.
30. Two-lot
Subdivision: The subdivision of a
tract or parcel of and into no more than two (2) lots, sites, or other
divisions, requiring no new street, utility or drainage construction.
31. Variance: The official provision, by the Planning Commission,
of an exemption from compliance with the terms or conditions of these
Regulations due to a unique hardship related to physical characteristics of the
property as provided in Article I, G. of the Subdivision Regulations.
32. Yard: An open space that lies between the
principal building or buildings and the nearest lot line.
33. Zone,
Zoning: The designation of an area
of the Oak Ridge Planning Region in the Oak Ridge Zoning Ordinance,
and/or the regulations for the use and development of land within that zone.
B. Terms
not defined herein shall have the meaning as defined in other regulations or
ordinances of the City of Oak Ridge, or if not so defined, the meaning commonly
set forth in a dictionary of current usage.