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Design -
correct answer ✅street alignments, grades and width, alignments
and widths of easements and right-of-way for drainage and sanitary
sewers and the arrangement and orientations of lots
Improvement -
correct answer ✅required installations, pursuant to this article and
subdivision regulations, including grading, sewer and water utilities,
streets, easements, traffic control devices as a condition to the
approval and acceptance of the final plat thereof
Land splits -
correct answer ✅the division of improved or unimproved land
whose area is two and one-half acres or less into two or three
tracts or parcels of land for the purpose of sale or lease
Municipal or municipality -
correct answer ✅incorporated city or town
Planning agency -
correct answer ✅the official body designated by local ordinance to
carry out the purposes of this article and may be a planning
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department, a planning commission, the legislative body itself, or
any combination thereof
Plat -
correct answer ✅map of a subdivision
Preliminary plat -
correct answer ✅a preliminary map, including supporting data,
indicating a proposed subdivision design prepared in accordance
with the provisions of this article and those of any local applicable
ordinance
Final plat -
correct answer ✅a map of all or part of a subdivision essentially
conforming to an approved preliminary plat, prepared in
accordance with the provision of this article, those of any local
applicable ordinance and other state statute
Recorded plat -
correct answer ✅a final plat bearing all of the certificates of
approval required by this article, any local applicable ordinance and
other state statute
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Right-of-way -
correct answer ✅any public or private right-of-way and includes
any area required for public use pursuant to any general or specific
plan as provided for in article 6 of this chapter
Street -
correct answer ✅any existing or proposed street, avenue,
boulevard, road, lane, parkway, place, bridge, viaduct or easement
for public vehicular access or a street shown in a plat heretofore
approved pursuant to law or a street in a plat duly filed and
recorded in the county recorder's office. A street includes all land
within the street right-of-way whether improved or unimproved,
and includes such improvements as pavement, shoulders, curbs,
gutters, sidewalks, parking space, bridges and viaducts
Subdivider -
correct answer ✅a person, firm, corporation, partnership,
association, syndicate, trust or other legal entity that files
application and initiates proceedings for the subdivision of land in
accordance with the provisions of this article, any local applicable
ordinance and other state statute, except that an individual serving
as agent for such legal entity is not a subdivider
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Subdivision -
correct answer ✅Improved or unimproved land or lands divided
for the purpose of financing, sale or lease, whether immediate or
future, into four or more lots, tracts or parcels of land, or, if a new
street is involved, any such property which is divided into two or
more lots, tracts or parcels of land, or, any such property, the
boundaries of which have been fixed by a recorded plat, which is
divided into more than two parts. It also includes any
condominium, cooperative, community apartment, townhouse or
similar project containing four or more parcels, in which an
undivided interest in the land is coupled with the right of exclusive
occupancy of any unit located thereon, but plats of such projects
need not show the buildings or the manner in which the buildings
or airspace above the property shown on the plat are to be divided
Subdivision regulations -
correct answer ✅a municipal ordinance regulating the design and
improvement of subdivisions enacted under the provisions of this
article or any prior statute regulating the design and improvement
of subdivisions
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Design -
correct answer ✅street alignments, grades and width, alignments
and widths of easements and right-of-way for drainage and sanitary
sewers and the arrangement and orientations of lots
Improvement -
correct answer ✅required installations, pursuant to this article and
subdivision regulations, including grading, sewer and water utilities,
streets, easements, traffic control devices as a condition to the
approval and acceptance of the final plat thereof
Land splits -
correct answer ✅the division of improved or unimproved land
whose area is two and one-half acres or less into two or three
tracts or parcels of land for the purpose of sale or lease
Municipal or municipality -
correct answer ✅incorporated city or town
Planning agency -
correct answer ✅the official body designated by local ordinance to
carry out the purposes of this article and may be a planning
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department, a planning commission, the legislative body itself, or
any combination thereof
Plat -
correct answer ✅map of a subdivision
Preliminary plat -
correct answer ✅a preliminary map, including supporting data,
indicating a proposed subdivision design prepared in accordance
with the provisions of this article and those of any local applicable
ordinance
Final plat -
correct answer ✅a map of all or part of a subdivision essentially
conforming to an approved preliminary plat, prepared in
accordance with the provision of this article, those of any local
applicable ordinance and other state statute
Recorded plat -
correct answer ✅a final plat bearing all of the certificates of
approval required by this article, any local applicable ordinance and
other state statute
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Right-of-way -
correct answer ✅any public or private right-of-way and includes
any area required for public use pursuant to any general or specific
plan as provided for in article 6 of this chapter
Street -
correct answer ✅any existing or proposed street, avenue,
boulevard, road, lane, parkway, place, bridge, viaduct or easement
for public vehicular access or a street shown in a plat heretofore
approved pursuant to law or a street in a plat duly filed and
recorded in the county recorder's office. A street includes all land
within the street right-of-way whether improved or unimproved,
and includes such improvements as pavement, shoulders, curbs,
gutters, sidewalks, parking space, bridges and viaducts
Subdivider -
correct answer ✅a person, firm, corporation, partnership,
association, syndicate, trust or other legal entity that files
application and initiates proceedings for the subdivision of land in
accordance with the provisions of this article, any local applicable
ordinance and other state statute, except that an individual serving
as agent for such legal entity is not a subdivider
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Subdivision -
correct answer ✅Improved or unimproved land or lands divided
for the purpose of financing, sale or lease, whether immediate or
future, into four or more lots, tracts or parcels of land, or, if a new
street is involved, any such property which is divided into two or
more lots, tracts or parcels of land, or, any such property, the
boundaries of which have been fixed by a recorded plat, which is
divided into more than two parts. It also includes any
condominium, cooperative, community apartment, townhouse or
similar project containing four or more parcels, in which an
undivided interest in the land is coupled with the right of exclusive
occupancy of any unit located thereon, but plats of such projects
need not show the buildings or the manner in which the buildings
or airspace above the property shown on the plat are to be divided
Subdivision regulations -
correct answer ✅a municipal ordinance regulating the design and
improvement of subdivisions enacted under the provisions of this
article or any prior statute regulating the design and improvement
of subdivisions
