Title 12 STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC PLACES
Chapter 12.01 COUNTY ROADS AND CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS
12.01.010 Definitions.
As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the following
meanings:
A. "Access road" means those roads providing access to abutting
land.
B. "Arterial road" means those roads providing a "through movement" of
traffic with very little or no direct land access.
C. "Collector road" means
those roads providing both services of Access and Arterial approximately
equally.
D. "County road" means every public highway as herein defined, or
part thereof, outside the limits of incorporated cities and towns and which has
not been designated as a primary or secondary state highway.
E. "Cul-de-sac"
means the circular area at the terminus of a dead-end road designed for
turn-around of motor vehicles.
F. "Design speed" means the safe speed of
travel for any particular road considering all design parameters such as sight
distance, curve radii and location of intersecting approaches.
G. "Driving
surface" means the center portion of the roadway section which has the full
design base and top rock in place. When the roadway is surfaced it will
generally be from edge of pavement to edge of pavement, except in those areas
having paved shoulders.
H. "Private road" means every way or place in private
ownership and used for travel of vehicles by the owner or those having express
or implied permission from the owner, not by other persons. For the purpose of
this chapter, this shall apply only to roadways serving two or more parcels of
land.
I. "Right-of-way" means a strip or area of land, granted by deed or
easement, for construction and maintenance according to designated
use.
J. "Roadbed" means the graded portion of a roadway, upon which the base
course, surface course and shoulders are constructed. (Ord. 1981-05
(part))
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