No. 94-08-19 - City of Frisco

SECTION 2
DEFINITIONS
2.01 City or The City shall mean City of Frisco, Texas.
2.02 Subdivision shall mean the division of a tract or parcel of land into two or more parts or lots
for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development or transfer
of ownership with the exception of transfer to heirs of an estate, and shall include resubdivision.
2.03 Re-subdivision shall mean the division of an existing subdivision, or the relocation of any
street lines.
2.04 Subdivider shall refer to any person or any agent thereof, dividing or proposing to divide
land so as to constitute a subdivision. Furthermore, the term "subdivider" shall be
restricted to include only the owner, equitable owner or authorized agent to such owner or
equitable owner, of land sought to be subdivided.
2.05 Lot shall mean land occupied or to be occupied for either residential, commercial, retail,
office, industrial, educational uses, etc., by a building and its accessory buildings and
including such open spaces as are required by ordinances of the City of Frisco and having
its principal frontage upon a public street or officially approved place.
2.06 Preliminary Plat shall be any plat of any lot, tract or parcel of land that is not to be
recorded of record, but is only a proposed division of land for review and study by the
City and used by the Subdivider in development of final plat and construction plans for
the property.
2.07 Key lot shall mean a corner lot that is designed such that the lots located directly behind it
faces the side street of the corner lot and are not separated by an alley.
2.08 Street shall mean a way for vehicular traffic and other public uses, whether designated a
street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, place
or however otherwise designated.
2.09 Arterial streets and highways shall mean streets used primarily for fast or heavy traffic as
designated in the Major Thoroughfare Plan (when available and as may be identified by the
City.)
2.10 Collector streets shall mean those streets which carry traffic from minor streets to major
system of arterial streets and highways, including the principal entrance streets of a
residential development or business park and those streets for circulation within such a
development as designated on the Major Thoroughfare Plan.
2.11 Minor streets shall mean those streets which are used primarily for access to abutting
properties.
2.12 Marginal access streets shall mean those minor streets which are parallel to and adjacent to
arterial streets and highways and which provide access to abutting properties and
protection from through traffic.
2.13 Cul-de-sac shall mean a short minor street having only one vehicular access to another
street and terminated by a vehicular turn-around.
2.14. Dead end street shall mean a street, other than a cul-de-sac, with only one outlet.
2.15 Alleys shall mean a minor way used primarily for vehicular and/or utility service to the rear
or side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
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