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1 • 13 RIGHT -OF -WAY. A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a street, railroad, road, electric transmission line, oil or gas pipeline, water main, sanitary or storm sewer main, or for another special use. The usage of the term RIGHT -OF -WAY for land platting purposes shall mean that every RIGHT- OF- WA Yhereafter established and shown on a final plat is to be separate and distinct from the lots or parcels adjoining the RIGHT -OF -WAY and not included within the dimensions or areas of the lots or parcels. RIGHT -OF -WAY intended for streets, water mains, sanitary sewers, storm drains, or any other use involving maintenance by a public agency shall be dedicated to public use by the recording of the plat on which the RIGHT -OF -WAY is established. ROAD RIGHT -OF -WAY WIDTH. The horizontal distance between the outside edges of a road right -of -way. SETBACK. The minimum horizontal distance between a structure, individual sewage treatment system, or other facility, and an ordinary high water level, sewage treatment system, top of bluff, road, highway, property line, or other facility. SHORELAND. Land located within the following distances from public waters: 1,000 feet from the ordinary high water level of a lake, pond or flowage and 300 feet from a river or stream or the landward extent of a flood plain designated in Chapter 1102 on a river or stream, whichever is greater. The limits of SHORELAND may be reduced whenever the waters involved are bounded by topographic divides which extend landward from the waters for lesser distances and when approved by the Commissioner of Natural Resources. SIGNIFICANT TREE. See definition of TREE. SPECIMEN TREE. See definition of TREE. STREET. A right -of -way affording access by pedestrians and vehicles, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, boulevard, court, way, trail or however otherwise designated. Private ingress and egress easements shall not be considered STREETS. STREET, IMPROVED. A street that is paved according to city standards. STREET, CUL DE SAC. A local street, 1 end of which is closed and consists of a circular turn around. STREET PAVEMENT WIDTH. The width of the improved surface of the street as measured at right angles or radially to the centerline of the street from curb face to curb face, or on a street without curbs from the outside edge of the improved shoulder to outside edge of improved shoulder. SUBDIVISION. The creation of 1 or more lots under the provisions of this chapter or any division of an existing lot. TREE. Any of the following type of trees, as each is defined herein: DRAFT JANUARY 26, 2009