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PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT. Any drainage ditch, roadway, parkway, sidewalk, pedestrianway, tree, lawn, off - street parking area, lot improvement, or other facility for which the City may ultimately assume the responsibility for maintenance and operation, or which may affect an improvement for which local government responsibility is established. PUBLIC RIGHT -OF -WAY. A strip of land accepted by the City over which the public has the right to pass, and including the rights to install and maintain a public street or other municipal improvements such as water lines, sewer lines, and other similar facilities. The City shall have the discretion to accept or reject the proposed dedication of such rights -of -way, and may reject the dedication if encroachments, encumbrances, or any other condition may limit the public's rights. PUBLIC STREET. The physical constructed improvements (including roadways, utilities, or other facilities) existing or proposed within a public right -of -way or public easement. RESERVE STRIPS. Narrow strips of land usually withheld from the street right -of -way to form a barrier between certain property and the public street or thoroughfare. RIGHT -OF -WAY. Land covered by a public road or other land dedicated for public use for certain private use such as land over which a power line passes. SETBACK. The distance between a building and the property line nearest thereto. STREET A public right -of -way affording primary access by pedestrian or vehicles or both, to abutting properties, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, road, avenue, boulevard. STREETS - COLLECTOR STREET. Those streets which carry traffic from local streets to the major system of arterials and highways. Collector streets primarily provide principal access to residential neighborhoods, including, to a lesser degree direct land access. STREETS - CUL -DE -SAC. An appropriate terminal for the safe and convenient reversal of traffic movement at the end of a local street with only one outlet. STREETS - LOCAL STREET. Those streets which are used primarily for access to abutting properties and for local traffic movement. STREETS - MARGINAL ACCESS STREET. Those local streets which are parallel and adjacent to thoroughfares and highways; and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic. STREETS - THOROUGHFARES, ARTERIAL STREETS. Those streets carrying larger volummes of traffic and serving as links between various subareas of the community. Thoroughfares or arterial streets are intended to provide for collection and distribution of traffic between highways and collector streets. STREET WIDTH. The shortest distance between lines of lots delineating the streets right -of -way. SUBDIVIDER. Any individual, firm, association, syndicate, co- partners, corporation, trust or other legal entity having sufficient proprietary interest in the land sought to be subdivided to commence and maintain proceedings to subdivide the same under this Ordinance. SUBDIVISION. The division of land resulting in a parcel of land less than five (5) acres in area or less than three hundred (300) feet in width. The term includes re- subdivision and, when appropriate to the context, shall relate to the process of subdividing or to the land subdivided. TOPOGRAPHY The detailed description of the features of a relatively small area; also the relief features or surface configuration of an area. 8