Saint Paul Legislative Code § 69.200 Definitions.
Sec. 69.200. - Definitions.
The definitions contained in Minnesota Statutes, Section 462.352, are incorporated herein by reference. The definitions contained in the zoning code, Chapters 60 through 66, shall also be applicable to the subdivision regulations. The following terms shall have the meanings given to them:
Adjustments of common boundaries. Where platted lots share common boundaries and where boundaries are being redrawn to create new legal descriptions.
Block. An area of land within a subdivision which is entirely bounded by streets or by streets, railroad right-of-way, waterway, outlot, walkway, park or exterior boundary of the subdivision.
Commission or planning commission. The officially created planning commission of the city which has been established by ordinance.
Comprehensive plan. The comprehensive development plan prepared and adopted by the city indicating the general locations recommended for major land uses, streets, parks, public buildings and other public improvements.
Crosswalk or pedestrianway. A city-owned right-of-way which crosses a block and furnishes pedestrian access to adjacent streets or properties.
Easement. A grant by a property owner to the use of land by the public, a corporation or persons for specific purposes as the construction of utilities, drainage ways and roadways.
Grade, percentage of. The rise or fall of a street in feet and tenths of a foot for each one hundred (100) feet of horizontal distance measured at the centerline of the street.
Highwood. That area bounded on the north by Lower Afton Road, on the east by McKnight Road, on the south by the city limits and on the west by Highway 61.
Individual sewage treatment system. A sewage treatment system or part thereof serving a dwelling or other establishment or group thereof that uses subsurface soil treatment and disposal or aboveground soil treatment in areas of high water table or bedrock or rapidly or slowly permeable soils.
Lot. The smallest unit of a subdivision individually numbered or designated on the plat for purposes of description, recording, conveyance, development and taxation.
Lot splits. The division of one (1) or more lots which creates no more than four (4) lots.
Municipal services. City sewer and water.
Plat. A map or drawing indicating the subdivisions or resubdivision of land, intended to be filed for record, and drawn in accord with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 505.
Right-of-way. Land dedicated and publicly owned for use as a street, alley or crosswalk.
Split zoning. A single lot or parcel containing two (2) or more different zoning classifications.
Street width. The street right of way width, measured at right angles to the centerline of the street.
Subdivision. The separation of an area, parcel or tract of land under single ownership into two (2) or more parcels, tracts, lots or long-term leasehold interests where the creation of the leasehold interest necessitates the creation of streets, roads or alleys, for residential, commercial, industrial or other use or any combination thereof, except those separations:
(a) Where all the resulting parcels, tracts, lots or interests will be twenty (20) acres or larger in size and five hundred (500) feet in width for residential uses, and five (5) acres or larger in size for commercial and industrial uses.
(b) Creating cemetery lots.
(c) Resulting from court orders, or the adjustment of a lot line by the relocation of a common boundary.
(d) Resulting from acquisition by governmental agencies for public improvements or uses.
(C.F. No. 95-794, § 1, 8-9-95; C.F. No. 03-1028, § 1, 4-7-04)