§ 16-1. Definitions

For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms and words, whenever used or referred to, shall have the following meanings:

(A)

Drainage right-of-way: The lands required for the installation of stormwater sewers or drainage ditches, or required along a natural stream or watercourse for preserving the channel and providing for the flow of water therein to safeguard the public against flood damage.

(B)

Engineer: A qualified person registered and currently licensed to practice civil engineering in the state.

(C)

Frontage: The length of the front property line of the lot, lots, or tract of land abutting a public street, road, highway, or rural right-of-way.

(D)

Final Plat: Those submittals as required by, and following the procedures of these regulations, showing all building lots, easements, rights-of-way, and other information necessary for providing the detailed description of the subdivision of a parcel of land.

(E)

Improvement:

(1)

Any building, structure, fence, gate, wall, walkway, parking facility, light fixture, bench, foundation, sign, work of art, earthworks, sidewalk, or other man-made objects constituting a physical change or betterment of real property, or any part or portion of said change or betterment.

(2)

Physical changes made to raw land, and structures placed on or under the land surface, in order to make the land more usable. Typical improvements in these regulations would be grading, street, pavement, curbs, gutters, drainage ditches, storm and sanitary sewers, utility lines of all types, street name signs, etc.

(F)

Land Surveyor : A land surveyor registered under [F.S.] Ch. 472 who is in good standing with the Florida State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.

(G)

Mobile home space: A plot of ground within a mobile home park designed for the accommodation of one (1) mobile home.

(H)

Performance guarantee: Any security which may be accepted in lieu of a requirement that certain improvements be made before the City Council approves a plat, which may only include performance bonds or escrow agreements funded by cash or certified funds.

(I)

Plat:

(1)

The map of a subdivision or, if the subdivision is a condominium or cooperative, it shall mean those declarations required by F.S. Chapters 718 and 719.

(2)

A map or delineated representative of the subdivision of lands, being a complete, exact representation of the subdivision and other information in compliance with the requirement of all applicable statutes and of local ordinances, and may include the terms "replat," "amended," or "revised plat."

(J)

Preliminary development plan: The preliminary map indicating the proposed layout of the subdivision which is submitted for the City Administrator's consideration and tentative approval and meeting the requirements of the section relating to preliminary development plans.

(K)

Private street or roadway: Any thoroughfare used commonly for vehicular traffic which is not included in the definition of street in this chapter and which is not subject to maintenance by the City; such definition to include but not be limited to roadways in apartment, condominium or office complexes.

(L)

Subdivider: Any individual, firm, association, syndicate, co-partnership, corporation, trust or any other legal entity commencing proceedings under this chapter to effect a subdivision of land hereunder for himself or for another.

(M)

Subdivision: The division of a parcel of land, whether improved or unimproved into three (3) or more lots or parcels of land for the purpose of sale or building development (whether immediate or future) and including all division of land involving the dedication of a new street or a change in existing streets.