3.35.020 Definitions.
For the purposes of Chapter 3.35, the following words have the following definitions:
“Administrator” means the City Planner of the City, or his or her designee.
“Applicant” means the person, firm, partnership, joint venture or corporation that seeks to exercise the privilege of engaging in the business of platting real property in the City by applying for Plat approval.
“Area” means the gross area of the real property included in a plat for which approval is sought measured in square feet less the area described in Section Five hereof.
“City” means the City of Olathe, Kansas.
“Collector Street Standards” means those standards established by the City Engineer in the latest edition of the City of Olathe’s “Technical Specifications and Design Criteria for Public Improvement Projects.”
“Commercial Zoning District” means Retail Business (C-1 and CP-1), General Business (C-2 and CP-2), Community/Corridor Business (C-3 and CP-3), Central Business District (CBD) and Business Park (BP) zoning districts as described in the City’s Unified Development Ordinance.
“Governing Body” means the City Council of the City of Olathe, Kansas.
“Improvement” means the design and construction of a public street and all appurtenances thereto.
“Initial Improvement” means the improvement of any road designated as a main trafficway from an unimproved road to at least collector street standards.
“Initial Improvement Tax Rate” means the rate of taxation designed to provide revenues to construct initial improvements to main trafficways.
“Intermediate Traffic Signals” means traffic signals located at the intersection of a non-trafficway (arterial), public street and a main trafficway.
“Intermediate Traffic Signal Tax Rate” means the rate of taxation designed to provide revenues for the construction of intermediate traffic signals.
“Main Trafficway” means the section line roads, street and highways designated s main trafficways in Chapter 10.10 of this Municipal Code.
“Multi Family Zoning Districts” means two-family (R-2 and RP-2), Low Density Apartment Townhouse (R-3 and RP-3), Garden Apartment (R-4 and RP-4), Apartment House (R-5 and RP-5), and Manufactured Home Park (MHP) zoning districts described in the City’s Unified Development Ordinance.
“Other Zoning Districts” means the zoning districts described in the City’s Unified Development Ordinance that are not single family, multi family, or commercial zoning districts as described in this section, including but not limited to, office buildings, industrial zoning districts and mixed use zoning districts.
“Plat” means a recordable final plat giving the location and dimensions of land as one or more lots, blocks, tracts or parcels, and meeting the requirements of the Municipal Code of the City of Olathe and Kansas Statutes. The purpose for recording of a document, and the absence of lots, blocks, or public rights-of-way shall not affect its status as a Plat.
“Real Property” means a legally described parcel of land capable of development pursuant to applicable City ordinances and regulations.
“Recordable” means capable of being recorded with the Register of Deeds of Johnson County, Kansas.
“Single Family Zoning Districts” means the single family (R-1 and RP-1) zoning districts described in the City’s Unified Development Ordinance.
“Tax Rate” means the rate of taxation applied to the Area of real property expressed in dollars per square foot.
“Unimproved Road” means any road, street or highway in the City that has been designated as a main trafficway and is not constructed to collector street standards as of March 1, 1999. (Ord. 02-52 § 1, 2002; Ord. 98-106 § 2, 1998.)