The following definitions apply to the meanings
of respective terms as they are to be construed in this chapter.
An area of land within a subdivision that is entirely bounded
by streets, highways or ways, except alleys; or by streets, highways
or ways, except alleys, and the exterior boundary or boundaries of
the subdivision.
The plan for the Village of New Haven, Macomb County, Michigan,
as adopted by the Planning Commission.
A grant by the property owner of the use of a strip of land
by the public, a corporation, or private person or persons for a specific
purpose or purposes.
A portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land intended
to be a unit for transfer of ownership or for development.
The Village Clerk of the Village of New Haven, Macomb County,
Michigan.
The legislative body of the Village of New Haven, Macomb
County, Michigan.
The Village of New Haven, Macomb County, Michigan.
When included within the boundary of a recorded plat, means
a lot set aside for purposes other than a building site, park or other
land dedicated to public use or reserved to private use.
The Village Planning Commission of the Village of New Haven,
Macomb County, Michigan.
A map or plan of a subdivision of land.
A person, firm, association, partnership, corporation or
combination of any of them which may hold any ownership interest in
land, whether recorded or not.
A way of vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street,
highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, boulevard,
lane, place, or however otherwise designated.
Alleys are minor ways providing a second means
of access to a property.
Culs-de-sac are minor streets with only one
outlet and having an appropriate terminal for the safe and convenient
reversal of traffic movement.
Local streets (minor streets) are those which
are used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
Major thoroughfares are those streets and highways
which are used as through routes for traffic in New Haven.
Major collectors are those streets which carry
traffic from major thoroughfares to intensive land uses in the Village
and are major circulation routes within the Village.
Minor collector streets are those which carry
traffic from minor streets to the major system of arterial streets
and highways, including the principal entrance streets of a residential
development and streets for circulation within such a development.
Marginal access streets are minor streets which
are parallel to and adjacent to arterial streets and highways and
which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through
traffic.
A dead-end street has only one end open to vehicular
traffic and is not provided with a vehicular turnaround at the other
end.
The partitioning or dividing of a parcel or tract of land
by the proprietor thereof or by his heirs, executors, administrators,
legal representatives, successors or assigns for the purpose of laws
or lease of more than one year or of building development, where the
act of division creates five or more parcels of land each of which
is 10 acres or less in area, or where five or more parcels of land,
each of which is 10 acres or less in area, are created by successive
divisions within a period of 10 years.
Act 288, Public Acts of 1967 (effective January 1, 1968).[2]
The Zoning Ordinance of the Village of New Haven, Macomb
County, Michigan.[3]
