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18 <br /> <br />42. Design Standards. The specifications to landowners or subdividers for the preparation of <br />plats, both preliminary and final, indicating among other things, the optimum, minimum, or <br />maximum dimensions of such items as rights of ways, blocks, easements and lots. <br />43. Detention Basin. A reservoir which temporarily contains storm water runoff and releases it <br />gradually into a watercourse or storm water facility. Developer. Any landowner, agent of <br />such landowner, equitable owner, or tenant with the permission of the landowner, for <br />whom subdivision plans are being or have been made. <br />44. Development. An activity which materially alters or affects the existing conditions or use of <br />any land. <br />45. Development Plan. The provisions for development, including a plat of subdivision, all <br />covenants relating to use, location and bulk of buildings and other structures, intensity of <br />use or density of development, streets, ways and parking facilities, common open space, <br />and public facilities. The phrase "provisions of the development plan" when used in this <br />Ordinance shall mean the written and graphic materials referred to in this definition. <br />46. Development Rights. An interest in and the right to use and subdivide land for any and all <br />residential, commercial and industrial purposes and activities which are not incident to <br />agriculture and open space, in accordance with zoning and other regulations. Development <br />rights can be used, held, or transferred, from adjacent property under common ownership, <br />to plat an additional buildable lot on a contiguous receiving property. <br />47. Double Frontage Lot. A lot with front and rear street frontage. <br />48. Drainage Easement. The land required for the installation of storm sewer or drainage <br />facilities or required along a natural stream or watercourse for preserving the channel and <br />providing for the flow of water therein, or to safeguard the public against flood damage. <br />49. Drainage Plan. The plan of the subdivision showing the direction of surface water runoff and <br />the removal of surface water or groundwater by drains, grading runoff controls, or other <br />means. <br />50. Driveway. A private drive providing vehicular access between a street or access drive and a <br />parking area for a single residential unit of occupancy, or a private drive for non-residential <br />uses permitted to provide less than three parking spaces. <br />51. Easement. A right-of-way granted for limited use of property by the landowner for a public <br />or quasi-public or private purpose and within which the owner of the property shall not <br />have the right to make use of the land in a manner that violates the right of the grantee. <br />52. Eligible Land. An undeveloped quarter-quarter section or Legal Lot that meets the <br />conditions specified in Section 308 of this Ordinance. <br />53. Engineer. See Registered Engineer. <br />54. Farm. <br />55. Final Plat. See Plat. <br />56. Flood buyout. The purchase of private property by a federal, state, or local government for <br />the purpose of mitigating flood damage to structures and properties. <br />57. Floodplain. The area of inundation which functions as a storage or holding area for <br />floodwater to a width required to contain a base flood of which there is a one percent (1%) <br />chance of occurring in any given year. The floodplain also contains both the floodway and <br />the flood fringe. The floodway is the channel of a water course and the adjoining land area <br />which are required to carry and discharge the base flood. The flood fringe is the adjoining