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For the purposes of this chapter:

Addressable feature” means a constructed or proposed improvement with a fixed location that requires a street address for an owner’s business or personal purpose or for the potential delivery of emergency services, including facilities that transmit, convey, or deliver information to a public safety agency.

Addressing site plan” means a map prepared to scale depicting the development of a tract of land, drawn on a recent air photo base map which shows road centerlines, lot lines, and an access driveway; the access location point associated with a named road centerline; and any relevant addressable features; scale may vary to more accurately depict the required features.

AHJ” means the authority having jurisdiction for a particular function or service such as fire service, road service, or 911 call taking.

Alley” means a right-of-way designed and intended to provide a secondary means of public access to abutting properties and not intended for general traffic circulation.

Commercial unit” means a room or group of rooms providing space for business or commerce.

Department” means the Department of Emergency Operations and its employees and agents.

Director” means the Director of Emergency Operations or their designee.

Driveway” means a thoroughfare between a named road and an addressable feature.

Dwelling unit” means a room or group of rooms providing shelter and living facilities for one or more persons.

Fairbanks base line” means the east-west line that runs through the initial point and with the Fairbanks principal meridian forms the basis of the public land survey system within the Borough.

Fairbanks principal meridian” means the north-south line that runs through the initial point and with the Fairbanks base line forms the basis of the public land survey system within the Borough.

FNSB GIS” means the Fairbanks North Star Borough’s geographical information system, a computer system maintained by the Borough for capturing, storing, checking, and displaying data related to positions on the Earth’s surface.

Initial point” means the intersection of the Fairbanks principal meridian and the Fairbanks base line, labeled on the USGS Fairbanks D-2SE map; it is located approximately at the summit of Birch Hill.

Named road” means a road which has been named by platting action or by an agency having road naming jurisdiction.

Private road” means a road not dedicated to public use.

Road” means a thoroughfare along which wheeled vehicles may travel at least part of the year.

Road centerline” means a digital feature and associated attributes maintained in the FNSB GIS which indicates the center of a thoroughfare in Earth coordinates.

Street address” means a description of a point location by reference to an access point off a named road or thoroughfare.

Sub-address” means a descriptor that specifies one of a group of locations associated with a single valid street address (e.g., 100 Spruce St Apt 101, 100 Spruce St Suite 103, etc.).

Thoroughfare” means a road, path, route, or other physical feature via which people or vehicles travel from one place to another, including rivers, streams, trails, and winter trails along which emergency services may be delivered or commerce may flow.

Unit” means a constructed space, room, or group of rooms, with specific boundaries.

USGS” means the United States Geological Survey.

Vacant” means a lot or parcel of land on which no improvements (including buildings or meter poles) have been constructed. (Ord. 2019-09 § 2, 2019; Ord. 2019-10 § 20, 2019; Ord. 2017-12 § 2, 2017.)