10.12.020 Definitions.
As used in this chapter, the words and phrases below shall have the following meanings, unless it is apparent from the context that different meanings are intended. If a term is not defined in this chapter, then it shall have the definition and meaning provided in the North Bend transportation system plan adopted by Ordinance 1915.
(1) “Access” means a way or means of approach to provide pedestrian, bicycle, or motor vehicle entrance into or exit from a property.
(2) “Access connection” means any driveway, street, turnout or other means of providing for the movement of vehicles to or from a public or private roadway system.
(3) “Development” means any construction requiring a building permit or any land division, except that the term does not include: (a) parking area improvements; (b) landscaping improvements; (c) construction, repair or remodel of accessory uses to existing residential single-family or duplex dwellings, such as garages, walls, or fences; (d) repairs, remodels or additions to existing residential single-family or duplex dwellings; or (e) repairs, remodels or additions to existing commercial buildings if there is no increase in off-street parking requirements.
(4) “Easement” means a grant of one or more property rights by a property owner to, or for use by, the public or another person or entity.
(5) “Functional classification” means a system used to group public roadways into classes according to their purpose in moving vehicles and providing access.
(6) “Joint or shared access” means a driveway connecting two or more contiguous sites to a public or private street system.
(7) “Pathway” means a surfaced walkway that provides pedestrian and bicycle passage either between streets or from a street to a building or other destination such as a school, park, or transit stop. Pathways are physically separated by curbs and/or landscaping from vehicle maneuvering areas.
(8) “Public right-of-way” means the area between boundary lines of a public street or other public easement that is reserved, used, or to be used for a public street, alley, pathway or other public purpose.
(9) “Roadway” means the portion or portions of a street right-of-way developed for vehicular traffic.
(10) “Sidewalk” means a pedestrian way with permanent surfacing to city standards.
(11) “Street” means the entire width between the boundary lines of every public way provided for public use for vehicular and pedestrian traffic, and the placement of utilities, and including “road,” “highway,” “lane,” “place,” “avenue,” or similar designations.
(a) “Alley” means a narrow public right-of-way through a block primarily for utilities and access to the back or side of properties fronting another street.
(b) “Arterial” means a street of considerable continuity which is primarily a traffic artery for intercommunication among large areas.
(c) “Collector” means a street supplementary to the arterial street system and a means of intercommunication between this system and smaller areas used partly by through traffic and partly for access to abutting properties.
(d) “Cul-de-sac” means a dead-end street with one end open to traffic and the other end terminated by a circular vehicle turnaround.
(e) “Half street” means a portion of the width of a street, usually along the edge of a subdivision, where the remaining portion of the street could be provided in another subdivision.
(f) “Hammerhead” means a dead-end street with one end open to traffic and the other end terminated by a rectangular vehicle turnaround.
(g) “Marginal access street” means a minor street parallel and adjacent to a major arterial street providing access to abutting properties, but protected from through traffic.
(h) “Minor street” means a street intended exclusively for access to abutting properties.
(i) “Stub-out” means a portion of a street or cross access driveway to allow for future extension to an abutting property that may be developed in the future. (Ord. 1971 § 1, 2009)