KETCHIKAN GATEWAY BOROUGH PLANNING COMMISSION ...

17.05.020 GENERAL PROVISIONS AND REQUIREMENTS“Platting authority” means the Ketchikan Gateway Borough planning commission serving as the platting authorityunless another entity is specifically designated. For the review of abbreviated plats and plat alterations, the planningdirector is the designated platting authority.“Preliminary plan” means a plan denoting the improvements to the undeveloped land, such as surface and stormwater drainage control; wastewater collection, distribution and treatment; road and street improvements, includinggradients, horizontal alignment and typical section of roadway improvements; and other matters required by thistitle.“Preliminary plat” means the preliminary plan drawn in conformance with the requirements of this title and submittedto the planning official and planning commission serving as the platting authority for review.“Private drive” means a private road providing access from a public street or way to a building on abutting grounds.“Public utility” means a person, firm, corporation, or municipal or public authority certified as a public utility bythe state of Alaska and which provides gas, electricity, water, telephone, telegraph, storm sewers, sanitary sewers,or services of a similar nature.“Resubdivision” means the redivision of an existing lot, block or tract of land in a previously recorded subdivisionor legally recorded plan involving a change in property lines or a change in the area of one (1) or more lots, blocksor tracts but shall not include the vacation of a public right-of-way or public area.“Right-of-way” means an area acquired, dedicated, granted or conveyed for the development of transportation facilities.“Right-of-way plat” means a plat prepared by a government agency for an area acquired, dedicated, granted, or conveyed,whether in fee or easement, to or by a government body for the development of transportation facilities.“Sidewalk” means an improved surface within a public right-of-way intended for pedestrian circulation.“Street” means an improved roadway within a public right-of-way or easement intended for vehicular and pedestrianaccess whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, road, roadway, avenue, boulevard,lane, place or however otherwise designated.(1) “Alley” is a minor way which is used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side of propertiesotherwise abutting on a street.(2) “Arterial street” means a fast, or heavy-traffic street of considerable continuity and used primarily as atraffic artery for intercommunication among large areas.(3) “Collector street” means a street which carries traffic from minor streets to arterial streets, including theprincipal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation within such a development.(4) “Cul-de-sac” means a short minor street having one (1) end permanently terminating in and including avehicular turning area.(5) “Local street” means a street used primarily for access to property abutting the public right-of-way.“Subdivider” means any person, group, corporation, municipality, or other entity acting as a unit, or any agentthereof, dividing or proposing to divide lands so as to constitute a subdivision as defined herein.“Subdivision” means the division of a tract or parcel of land into two (2) or more lots, sites or other divisions forthe purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale, or other conveyance or development, and includes resubdivisionand, when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land or areas subdivided, or ifa new street is involved, any division of a parcel of land. A designation of boundaries of a portion of a lot or tractfor the purpose of a lease is not a subdivision.17-6