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areas to city residents. The trails shall <br /> provide recreational opportunity and also access <br /> to parks, natural areas, and public land in <br /> accordance with the city's adopted trail plan. <br /> (Amended by Ordinance No. 02 - 89, passed April <br /> 10, 1989) <br /> (18) Preliminary Plan - is a tentative map or plan of <br /> a proposed subdivision as set forth in Section <br /> 1001.04. <br /> (19) Reserve Strips - are narrow strips of land <br /> usually withheld from the street right-of-way to <br /> form a barrier between certain property and the <br /> public street or thoroughfare. <br /> (20) Right-of-way - is the land covered by a public <br /> road or other land dedicated for public use or <br /> for certain private use such as land over which a <br /> power line passes. <br /> (21) Street - is a public or private right-of-way <br /> which affords primary access by pedestrians and <br /> vehicles to abutting properties, whether. <br /> designated as a street, avenue, highway, road, <br /> boulevard, lane or however otherwise designated. <br /> (22) Street Width - is the shortest distance between <br /> lines of lots delineating the street. <br /> (23) Subdivision or Plat - is a parcel of land divided <br /> into smaller parts such as blocks or lots, also <br /> means a tract of land which is re-divided anew <br /> after first division. <br /> (24) Thoroughfare - is a public right-of-way with a <br /> high degree of traffic continuity and serving as <br /> an arterial traffic-way between the various <br /> districts of the city. <br /> (25) Topography - is the detailed description of the <br /> features of a relatively small area, also the <br /> relief features or surface configuration of an <br /> area. <br /> (26) Watercourses - as mentioned in this chapter shall <br /> mean any natural or man-made passageway on the <br /> surface of the earth so situated and having such <br /> a topographical nature that surface water stands <br /> or flows through it form other areas. The term <br /> includes ponding areas, drainage channels, swales, <br /> waterways, creeks, rivers, lakes, streams, wetland <br /> areas, and any other open surface water f-ow which <br /> is the result of storm water or ground water <br /> discharge. This term does not include man-made <br /> 161 <br />