Article 5. DEFINITIONS  

Except as otherwise specified herein, all words used herein shall have their customary dictionary definition. Words used in the present tense include the future; the singular number includes the plural and the plural includes the singular. The word "shall" is mandatory, not directory.

Alley: A narrow service way dedicated for public use providing a secondary public means of access to abutting properties and not intended for general traffic circulation.

Building setback line: A line on the plat generally parallel to the street right-of-way line, indicating the limit beyond which buildings or structures may not be erected.

Comprehensive development plan: The various maps, charts, and descriptive and explanatory material and all textual matter approved by the Dublin Planning Commission and city council to guide and shape the growth of Dublin.

Development: The act of building structures and/or installing site improvements.

Easement: A grant by property owners of the use for a specific purpose (or purposes) of a piece of land by the general public, a corporation, or a person or persons.

Lot or plat: Portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land, intended as a unit for transfer of ownership or for building development.

Lot depth: The distance between the front and the rear lot lines.

Lot frontage: The front of a lot shall be construed to be the portion nearest the street. On corner lots and through lots, all sides of a lot adjacent to streets shall be considered frontage.

(a)

Corner lot means a lot at the intersection of at least two (2) streets.

(b)

Interior lot means a lot other than a corner lot, which has front on only one street.

(c)

Through lot means a lot, other than a corner lot, which has frontage on more than one street.

Lot width: The distance between the side lot lines measured at the front of the building.

Planning commission: The Dublin Planning Commission, as established by the city government in accordance with Georgia General Act. No. 358, 1957, as amended.

Public way: A piece of land over which the general public has a right of usage whether acquired through prescription, by adverse use of the general public, or otherwise.

Street: A public thoroughfare which affords the principal means of access to abutting property. This includes avenues, roads, lanes, drives, or other means of ingress or egress regardless of the terms used to designate them. The subdivider shall be concerned with the following types of street development:

(a)

Local service street is one which is intended to provide direct access to abutting property.

(b)

Marginal access street is generally parallel and adjacent to controlled access thoroughfares, arterials or connector streets, for the purposes of providing access to abutting properties and of separating high speed from local traffic.

(c)

Cul-de-sac is a service street having one end open to traffic, with the other end permanently terminated by a turnaround.

Subdivider: A person, firm, corporation or association undertaking the process of subdivision on a lot, tract or parcel of land for the purpose of transfer of ownership [or] building development whether immediate or future.

Subdivision: Any division or redivision of a lot, tract or parcel of land, regardless of its prospective use. Said subdivision may be accomplished by platting or a description by metes and bounds or otherwise, into two (2) or more lots or other division for sale or improvement. The term "subdivision" as used herein shall mean the act of subdivision and shall not be construed in a literal or restricted sense. However, where appropriate to the context the term "subdivision" shall mean the aggregate of all parcels held by one owner or combination of owners and designated to be developed or sold as parcels related to each other or interdependent through the use of streets, easements or other right-of-way or public facility. The following properties, however, shall not, for the purpose of this ordinance, be deemed subdivisions:

(a)

The combination or recombination of portions of previously platted lots where the total number of lots is not increased and the resultant lots are in accord with the zoning ordinance as amended.

(b)

Division of land into parcels having five (5) or more acres where no new street or roadway is involved.

(c)

Division of land into two (2) or fewer lots, provided:

(1)

Each lot abuts an existing public street, and is in accord with these regulations and with the zoning ordinance as amended.

(2)

No alteration of existing utility installation is involved.

(3)

That the planning commission is notified of such division of land through a plat and executes a formal release of the property for recording and development purposes.