Sec. 55-32. - S.
Screening: The method by which a view of one site from another adjacent site is shielded, concealed or hidden. Screening techniques include fences, walls, hedges, berms or other features.
Setback: A line within a lot parallel to and measured from a corresponding lot line, forming the boundary of a required yard and setting forth the nearest that a building face may come to that lot line.
Sign: A symbolic, visual device fixed upon a building, vehicle, structure or parcel of land, which is intended to convey information about a product, business, activity, place, person, institution, candidate or political idea.
Site: The parcel of land to be developed or built upon. A site may encompass a single lot, a portion of a lot, or a group of lots developed as a common development. A site must be in one base district, and cannot be separated by a public street or alley.
Site plan: A plan, prepared to scale, showing accurately and with complete dimensioning the boundaries of a site and the location of all buildings, structures, uses, and principal site development features proposed for a specific parcel of land.
Special permit use: A use with operating and/or physical characteristics different from those of permitted uses in a given zoning district which may, nonetheless, be compatible with those uses under special conditions and with adequate public review. Special permit uses are allowed in a zoning district only at the discretion of and with the explicit permission of the city council.
State: The State of Nebraska.
Street: A right-of-way, dedicated to public use, which affords a primary means of access to the abutting property.
Street, collector: A street that connects local streets to the major street system, generally serving residential neighborhoods or commercial or industrial areas, with direct access to abutting land uses. Traffic demands are generally in the range of 2,000 to 10,000 vehicles per day.
Street, internal: A public or private street that provides for pedestrian and vehicular circulation within and connection through an MU district to adjacent development.
Street, internal main: A public or private street that has buildings fronting on it and on which on-street parking is allowed.
Street, local: A street which is used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
Street, major: An arterial street intended to serve large volumes of traffic for both the municipal and metropolitan area of the city, as defined below:
Arterials and expressways: A street designed to provide continuity between inter- and intra-regional traffic, generally serving major centers of activity, with service to abutting land uses secondary to the provision of travel service. Traffic demands are generally in excess of 15,000 vehicles per day.
Minor arterial: A street that interconnects with and augments the arterial and expressway system and provides service to trips of moderate length, and generally distributes traffic to geographic areas smaller than those served by the arterial and expressway system, with emphasis on service to abutting land uses. Traffic demands are generally in the range of 5,000 to 15,000 vehicles per day.
Street, marginal access: A local street or frontage road which is approximately parallel to and adjacent to or part of a major street and provides access to the abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
Structure: Any object constructed or built, the use of which requires location on the ground or attachment to something located on the ground.
See Figure 55-32, Street and Drive Types, located at the end of this definition section.
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Street and Drive Types
(Code 1980, § 55-32; Ord. No. 37810, § 18, 8-14-07)
