§ 74.186. Definitions.

In this article:

Channelization means the use of traffic lane markers and/or curbed barriers to force vehicular traffic to follow a desired line of travel, often used to deny vehicles certain turning movements that would create traffic safety hazards.

City engineer means the person who holds the position of city engineer or other person as designated by the city manager.

City secretary means the person who holds the position of city secretary.

Contractor means any individual, partnership, association, or corporation engaged in the business of installing or altering facilities within a public right-of-way. This term applies to any entity which represents itself to be engaged in this business, whether or not it is actually doing the work.

Curb means a vertical or sloping structure located along the edge of a roadway, normally constructed integrally with the gutter, which strengthens and protects the pavement edge and clearly defines the pavement edge to vehicle operators.

Curb cut means an opening in a curb to allow the roadway pavement to meet the pavement of a driveway approach or an intersecting roadway, or, where no physical curb exists, the length along the roadway edge where the transitional pavement exists or is proposed.

Director of public services means the person who holds the position of director of the city public services division.

Driveway approach means the transitional pavement between the roadway and abutting property, installed in a curb cut to provide vehicular access from the roadway to the abutting property.

Engineer means a person duly authorized under the Texas Engineering Registration Act, as amended, to practice the profession of engineering.

Gutter means the area of pavement adjacent to a curb, designed to transport stormwater runoff along a roadway.

Inlet means an opening in a curb and/or gutter designed to intercept stormwater runoff flowing along a gutter.

Intersection means the common area contained between the projected edge line of two or more roadways which join at any angle, whether or not one street actually crosses the other.

Pedestrian way means a portion of a right-of-way, not on the roadway, usable for pedestrian traffic.

Right-of-way means the publicly owned area between private property lines designated as an easement for a roadway, whether or not the roadway is actually installed.

Roadway means that portion of the right-of-way designed and ordinarily used for vehicular travel, usually surfaced with a pavement.

Sidewalk means a paved pedestrian way generally located within the public street right-of-way, but outside the roadway, and built in accordance with city specifications.

Street means a public right-of-way which provides primary vehicular access to adjacent land, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, avenue, lane, boulevard, road, place, drive or however otherwise designated. Various types, categories and classifications of streets include:

Street, arterial means a thoroughfare designated as a freeway, expressway, major arterial or minor arterial in the most recently adopted city thoroughfare plan. The primary function of an arterial is to carry traffic through the city. An arterial is designed for as high a speed as possible, to carry as much traffic as possible. It is also known as a major thoroughfare.

Street, collector means a street that primarily carries traffic from local or residential streets to major thoroughfares and highways, including the principal entrance streets for circulation to schools, parks and other community facilities within a development, and also including all streets that carry traffic through or adjacent to commercial or industrial areas.

Street, local or residential means a street used primarily for access to abutting residential property. It is of a width and design to discourage through traffic, thereby protecting the residential area. A local street serves the same purpose in a commercial or industrial district.

Street, frontage means a local street lying parallel to and adjoining a major street right-of-way, which provides access to abutting properties.

Street, marginal access means a street parallel and adjacent to an arterial street and that primarily provides vehicular access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.

Street, private or service drive means a vehicular accessway under private ownership and maintenance that has not been dedicated to the city and accepted by the city.

Type I driveway approaches means those driveway approaches located solely for access to individual single-family, duplex or townhouse structures.

Type II driveway approaches means those driveway approaches located solely for access to all other structures than those cited in the definition of type I driveway approaches.

(Code 1970, § 25-51; Ord. No. 2018-04 , § 25, 4-17-18)

Cross reference

Definitions and rules of construction generally, §§ 1.002, 1.003.